Cellular enrichment through microfluidic fractionation based on cell biomechanical properties

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 987-993

  Wang, Gonghao ^a   Turbyfield, Cory ^b   Crawford, Kaci ^b   Alexeev, Alexander ^a   Sulchek, Todd ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS; FRACTIONATION; MICROFLUIDICS; MOBILE SECURITY;

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL POPULATIONS; HEALTHY POPULATION; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; MICROFLUIDIC CELL; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; PROOF OF CONCEPT;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84942991599     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-015-1608-y     Document Type: Article

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