Development of a universal integrated micro cell culture system

Author

Inoue, M. ; Terao, Kyohei ; Takao, Hidekuni ; Shimokawa, Fusao ; Oohira, Fumikazu ; Suzuki, Takumi ; Okonogi, A. ; Kotera, Hidetoshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Intell. Mech. Syst. Eng., Kagawa Univ., Takamatsu, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

70

Lastpage

73

Abstract

In this study, we propose an integrated micro cell culture system to easily carry out loading, culturing, observation, and collection of biological cells in a microchannel, and quantitatively evaluated the several factors concerning with the cells in the micro-environment. Especially, we evaluated the effect of the substrate material for the cell culture, and the adhesion and the proliferative properties of the cells collected from the microchannel. It was confirmed that the proposed micro cell culture system is useful for a practical use in cell biology.

Keywords

adhesion; bioMEMS; biomechanics; cellular biophysics; microchannel flow; microfabrication; adhesion; biological cell collection; biological cell culturing; biological cell loading; biological cell observation; cell biology; cell proliferative properties; microchannel; microenvironment; substrate material; universal integrated microcell culture system; cell collection; cell culture; cytotoxicity; microchannel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering (NANOMED), 2012 IEEE 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

ISSN

2159-6964

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5101-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NANOMED.2012.6509128

Filename

6509128