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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 509-517Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2004.02.020
Keywords
silicon microchip; BioMEMS; biosensor; patch-clainp; electrophysiology; biomembranes
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM30376] Funding Source: Medline
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We report on a silicon wafer-based device that can be used for recording macroscopic ion channel protein activities across a diverse group of cell-types. Gigaohm seals were achieved for CHO-K1 and RIN m5F cells, and both cell-attached and whole-cell mode configurations were also demonstrated. Two distinct intrinsic potassium ion channels were recorded in whole-cell mode for HIT-T15 and RAW 264.7 cells. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidics were also coupled with the micromachined silicon chips in order to demonstrate that a single cell could be selectively directed to a micropore, and membrane protein currents could subsequently be recorded. These silicon chip-based devices have significant advantages over traditional micropipette approaches, and may serve as combinatorial tools for investigating membrane biophysics, pharmaceutical screening, and other bio-sensing tasks. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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