微流控细胞芯片生命分析应用多元化

微流控芯片是现代生命科学研究领域的重要分析工具.结合研究者近年来开展的研究工作和取得的相关进展,本文主要介绍了微流控细胞芯片的功能特征,同时从动物细胞、植物细胞以及微生物细胞三方面系统阐述了微流控芯片生命分析多元化的发展现状,并对其应用前景进行了展望.     

微流控芯片-质谱联用细胞分析方法研究进展

细胞分析和代谢物分析在生物系统中起着重要的作用。微流控技术已成为细胞生物学研究的一个重要工具。该文总结了最近微流控芯片在细胞和代谢物的分析,尤其是微流控芯片与质谱联用技术的应用。同时对微流控芯片上细胞的生物学研究提出了见解和看法,希望能对感兴趣者提供一些启发。     

微流控芯片的研究及产业化

以大连研究团队的近期工作为基础,结合2015年末召开的“深圳-大连微流控芯片及其产业化战略研讨会”内容,扼要阐述作者对近期微流控芯片的研究及产业化的基本看法.鉴于微流控芯片研究的主流已从平台构建和方法发展转为不同领域的广泛应用,本文重点介绍了微流控芯片在现代生物化学分析、即时诊断、材料筛选-材料合成以及组织-器官仿生等4个应用领域的研究趋势,讨论了3D打印技术的崛起对微流控芯片的影响和挑战,阐述了微流控芯片作为当代极为重要的新兴科学技术平台和国家层面产业转型的潜在战略领域,在全球范围内产业化的发展势头.全文引用文献69篇.     

微流控芯片操纵传输及实时监测单细胞量子释放

微流控芯片技术用于细胞生化分析已引起了广泛关注.Harrison等首次在微流控芯片上对细胞群体进行操纵、传输及反应.yang等在微流控芯片上操纵细胞群体的排列,并用荧光检测细胞群体摄取钙的反应.至今还未见到微流控芯片对单个细胞进行操纵传输、定位及实时监测的报道.单细胞受激释放的监测对探索生物体神经传导具有重要意义.     

浓度梯度微流控芯片在药物筛选中的应用

微流控芯片技术作为21世纪极具代表性的微型分析平台技术之一,以其试剂消耗低、分析微型化、可集成化、易于控制、自动化和良好的生物相容性等优点而成为研究热点,在生物、医学、食品和环境等多个领域都有杰出表现,尤其是药物筛选领域。其中备受关注的浓度梯度微流控芯片更是取得了显著成果。本文综述了近年来用于药物筛选的浓度梯度纸基芯片、浓度梯度水凝胶芯片、浓度梯度液滴芯片、浓度梯度聚二甲基硅氧烷(PDMS)芯片的研究进展;同时对浓度梯度微流控芯片在单细胞分析、组合药物筛选、三维(3D)细胞培养和细胞微环境模拟等方面的应用及优缺点进行了阐述,并在此基础上对其发展前景进行了展望。     

微流控芯片技术在蛋白质分析中的应用进展

近年来,微流控芯片技术取得了显著的发展。随着微电子及微机械等制作技术的不断进步,高通量、高效、快速、低成本的微流控分析芯片在蛋白质和多肽分析方面获得了令人瞩目的成果。本文主要介绍了微流控芯片在蛋白质组学分析研究的应用和发展。引用文献52篇。     

基于毛细管电泳及微流控芯片的药物提取分离技术

近年来,在提取分离方面出现了许多新技术和新方法.其中毛细管电泳和微流控芯片技术以其微量、高效、快速等特点,在药物提取分离中已渐显优势.该文对基于毛细管电泳和微流控芯片的两相电泳技术、微流控液液萃取技术、微流控固液萃取技术、微流控过滤式分离技术、微流控膜分离技术在药物分离提取中的应用进行了综述.     

微流控芯片上细胞培养与分析方法研究进展

微流控芯片以其强大的微流体和微小物质控制能力成为研究单细胞、细胞群落乃至生物组织的重要手段。在本篇综述中,我们将以微流控芯片上细胞体外培养模型的建立为主,对近几年来重要的研究工作加以评述,全面地介绍微流控技术在细胞生命科学研究中应用的优势和未来发展方向,具体包括微流控芯片的细胞操控能力、细胞培养微环境的构建以及芯片联用检测手段,希望为从事这一领域研究工作的读者提供一些新的思路。     

微流控芯片系统在单细胞研究中的应用

微流控芯片具有网络式通道结构,扩展了在细胞和亚细胞水平进行生命科学研究的能力,为单细胞研究提供了一个新的平台.在微流控芯片通道中,人们利用气压、液压和电压,或利用介电电泳、光学陷阱、行波介电电泳以及磁场等技术,可以操纵细胞通过或驻留在通道内的任意位置,从而使单细胞计数、筛选以及胞内组分分析等操作大大简化.本文对微流控芯片系统在血液流变学、单细胞操纵与计数以及单细胞胞内组分分析中的应用进行了综述,介绍了用于单细胞研究的多种微芯片系统,讨论了芯片上进行单细胞操纵的各种方法     

微流控芯片细胞实验室

以作者所在课题组近年开展的研究工作为基础,阐述了微流控芯片细胞实验室的平台特征,并从细胞个体、群体和多细胞生命体研究等三个方面概述微流控芯片细胞实验室的应用对象特征,显示其在生物医学领域的应用前景。     

Cellular separations: a review of new challenges in analytical chemistry

The ability to generate a sample of cells of a given phenotype is a prerequisite for many cellular assays. In response to this growing need, numerous methods for cell separation have been developed in recent years. This Review covers recent progress in the field of cell separations and cell chromatography. Cell separation principles—such as size and affinity capture—are discussed, as well as conventional methods such as fluorescence-activated cell sorting and magnetic sorting. Planar flow cell arrays, dielectrophoresis, field-flow methods, and column separation devices are reviewed, as well as applications of these methods to medicine and biotechnology. Cell attachment and adhesion strategies and a comparison of techniques are also presented.     

Review of cell and particle trapping in microfluidic systems

The ability to obtain ideal conditions for well-defined chemical microenvironments and controlled temporal chemical and/or thermal variations holds promise of high-resolution cell response studies, cell-cell interactions or e.g. proliferation conditions for stem cells. It is a major motivation for the rapid increase of lab-on-a-chip based cell biology research. In view of this, new chip-integrated technologies are at an increasing rate being presented to the research community as potential tools to offer spatial control and manipulation of cells in microfluidic systems. This is becoming a key area of interest in the emerging lab-on-a-chip based cell biology research field. This review focuses on the different technical approaches presented to enable trapping of particles and cells in microfluidic system.     

Is the cell retention by MF membrane absolutely safe—a hypothetical model for cell deformation in a membrane pore

The process of a cell penetration through a pore of a microfiltration (MF) membrane is analyzed theoretically. The computational model is based on assumption of the idealized pore and cell geometry. Cell deformation during passage through the pore is possible by way of releasing the intracellular matter into the environment. Calculated results suggest that the penetration of a cell to the other side of the membrane via a pore of a significantly smaller diameter can be completed in the time period in order of minutes. The simulations presented should be regarded as the preliminary approach to the quantitative analysis of cell penetration to the other side of an MF membrane by squeezing mechanism.     

Cell morphology analysis of high density polymer foams

Polyolefin foams were produced by extrusion and injection molding in order to analyze their cellular morphology. This study proposes methods to calculate surface cell count as well as approaches for converting them into volumetric ones. Two methods of calculating surface cell count were examined. The first one considers an exact surface containing an undetermined number of cells, while the second considers an exact number of cells dispersed on a surface of undetermined area. Three approaches to calculate volumetric cell density were examined which are based on cell geometry: spherical, ellipsoids of revolution or true ellipsoids. It is found that both cell count methods are hampered by a 20% uncertainty but give similar results. All three methods of estimating cell density produce similar results when analyzing injected foams (spherical cells) but diverge significantly in the case of extruded foams (ellipsoidal cells).     

The effects of flow type on aptamer capture in differential mobility cytometry cell separations

In this work, differential mobility cytometry (DMC) was used to monitor cell separation based on aptamer recognition for target cells. In this device, open-tubular capillaries coated with Sgc8 aptamers were used as affinity chromatography columns for separation. After cells were injected into the columns, oscillating flow was generated to allow for long-term cell adhesion studies. This process was monitored by optical microscopy, and differential imaging was used to analyze the cells as they adhered to the affinity surface. We investigated the capture time, capture efficiency, purity of target and control cells, as well as the reusability of the affinity columns. Capture time for both CCRF-CEM cells and Jurkat T cells was 0.4 ± 0.2 s, which demonstrated the high separation affinity between aptamers and target cells. The capture efficiency for CCRF-CEM cells was 95% and purity was 99% in a cell mixture. With the advantage of both high cell capture efficiency and purity, DMC combined with aptamer-based separation emerges as a powerful tool for rare cell enrichment. In addition, aptamer-based DMC channels were found to be more robust than antibody based channels with respect to reuse of the separation device.     

Spatiotemporal control of cell adhesion on a self-assembled monolayer having a photocleavable protecting group

Control of cell adhesion is a key technology for cell-based drug screening and for analyses of cellular processes. We developed a method to spatiotemporally control cell adhesion using a photochemical reaction. We prepared a cell-culturing substrate by modifying the surface of a glass coverslip with a self-assembled monolayer of an alkylsiloxane having a photocleavable 2-nitrobenzyl group. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) was adsorbed onto the substrate to make the surface inert to cell adhesion. When exposed to UV light, the alkylsiloxane underwent a photocleavage reaction, leading to the release of BSA from the surface. Fibronectin, a protein promoting cell adhesion, was added to cover the irradiated regions and made them cell-adhesive. Seeding of cells on this substrate resulted in their selective adhesion to the illuminated regions. By controlling the sizes of the illuminated regions, we formed cell-adhesive spots smaller than single cells and located focal adhesions of the cells. Moreover, by subsequently illuminating the region alongside the cells patterned on the substrate in advance, we released their geometrical confinements and induced migration and proliferation. These manipulations were conducted under a conventional fluorescence microscope without any additional instruments. The present method of cell manipulation will be useful for cell biological studies as well as for the formation of cell arrays.     

Micro- and nanometer-scale patterned surface in a microchannel for cell culture in microfluidic devices

A novel microdevice which had a micro- and nanometer-scale patterned surface for cell adhesion in a microchip was developed. The surface had a metal pattern fabricated by electron-beam lithography and metal sputtering and a chemical pattern consisting of a self-assembled monolayer of alkanethiol. The metal patterned surface had a gold stripe pattern which was as small as 300 nm wide and 150 nm high and both topography and chemical properties could be controlled. Mouse fibroblast NIH/3T3 cells were cultured on the patterned surface and elongated along the gold stripes. These cells recognized the size of the pattern and the chemical properties on the pattern though it was much smaller than they were. There was satisfactory cell growth under fresh medium flow in the microchip. The combination of the patterned surface and the microchip provides cells with a novel environment for their growth and will facilitate many cellular experiments. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

细胞图案化研究进展

细胞图案化是一种研究和控制细胞行为的有效实验方法, 广泛用于细胞生物学、组织工程学、药物筛选和创伤治疗等各个研究领域. 介绍了各种细胞图案化的制备方法, 并对细胞图案化中涉及的特征物质以及有关动态基底作了简要评述.     

Synthesis and in vitro biological evaluations of novel tetrapeptide as therapeutic agent for wound treatment

We report a new small peptide containing four amino acid residues (glycine-aspartic acid-proline-histidine) conjugated with palmitic acid (Palmitoyl-GDPH) that was synthesized, characterized and evaluated for its biological activities. The Palmitoyl-GDPH was prepared by solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) with high percentage purity of 98.6%. The results of circular dichroism (CD) demonstrated the feasibility and stability of Palmitoyl-GDPH secondary structure at many temperatures up to 60 °C. Palmitoyl-GDPH showed its greatest collagenase inhibition activity and nitric oxide (NO) scavenging effect of 80.00 ± 2.22% at 1.0 mg/ml and 83.40 ± 8.08% at 2.5 mg/ml, respectively. In addition, in-vitro cell based study revealed that Palmitoyl-GDPH was not toxic and possessed strong proliferative activity towards normal human dermal fibroblast (NHDF) cell line. Wound scratch assay method showed that Palmitoyl-GDPH significantly promoted the cell migration which progressed faster compared to tetracycline-treated group (positive control) by about 98.39 ± 2.79% and 95.79 ± 3.83%, respectively. Collectively, these results suggested that newly synthesized Palmitoyl-GDPH possessed a strong candidate for use as therapeutic agent and can be a novel approach in the treatment of cutaneous wounds.     

单细胞成像观测研究进展

综述了近几年各种研究手段如STM,AFM和NOSM等在单细胞成像观测方面的研究进展,并对细胞成像观测的历史、现状及发展趋势作了综述。