Digital Microfluidics for Automated Hanging Drop Cell Spheroid Culture

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 283-295

  Aijian, Andrew P ^a   Garrell, Robin L ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3D cell culture; cell based assays; digital microfluidics; electrowetting; spheroids

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DROP FORMATION; LIQUIDS; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELLS;

3-D CELL CULTURE; CELL-BASED ASSAYS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COLORECTAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ELECTRO WETTING; MULTICELLULAR AGGREGATES; SPHEROIDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL MORPHOLOGY;

DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROWETTING; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPHEROID CELL; SURFACE PROPERTY; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SCREENING; LAB ON A CHIP; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TUMOR CELL LINE; UTILIZATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HUMANS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICE; MICROFLUIDICS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84930240981     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 22110690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2211068214562002     Document Type: Article

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