High-Throughput Assessment of Cellular Mechanical Properties

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-62

  Darling, Eric M ^a,b,c   Di Carlo, Dino ^d,e,f  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Brown University   (United States)

^d Engineering IV   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cell sorting; Enrichment; Inertial microfluidics; Mechanical phenotyping; Mechanophenotyping; Single cell analysis

Indexed keywords

BLAST ENRICHMENT; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; THROUGHPUT;

CANCER; CELL SORTING; INERTIAL MICROFLUIDICS; MECHANOPHENOTYPING; PHENOTYPING; SINGLECELL ANALYSIS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMEDICINE; BLOOD; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL ENGINEERING; CELL MECHANICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRESS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR, SUBCELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CYTOSKELETON; DRUG SCREENING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALARIA; MECHANOPHENOTYPING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROBEAD RHEOMETRY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROPIPETTE ASPIRATION; NEOPLASM; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OSMOTIC STRESS; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL; ACOUSTICS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FLOW KINETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; NEOPLASMS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PRECLINICAL STUDY; PROCEDURES;

ACOUSTICS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELL SEPARATION; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMUNE SYSTEM PHENOMENA; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NEOPLASMS; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84949525939     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: 15454274     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071114-040545     Document Type: Review

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