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BIOMICROFLUIDICS
Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3576903
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- Korea Research Foundation [KRF-2008-220-D00133]
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [R11-2008-044-02002-0]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [220-2008-1-D00133, 2008-220-D00133, R11-2008-044-02002-0] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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The successful encapsulation of human hepatocellular carcinoma (HepG2) cells would greatly assist a broad range of applications in tissue engineering. Due to the harsh conditions during standard chitosan fiber fabrication processes, encapsulation of HepG2 cells in chitosan fibers has been challenging. Here, we describe the successful wet-spinning of chitosan-alginate fibers using a coaxial flow microfluidic chip. We determined the optimal mixing conditions for generating chitosan-alginate fibers, including a 1: 5 ratio of 2% (w/w) water-soluble chitosan (WSC) solution to 2% (w/w) alginate solution. Ratio including higher than 2% (w/w) WSC solution increased aggregation throughout the mixture. By suspending cells in the WSC-alginate solution, we successfully fabricated HepG2 cell-laden fibers. The encapsulated HepG2 cells in the chitosan-alginate fibers were more viable than cells encapsulated in pure alginate fibers, suggesting that cross-linked chitosan provides a better environment for HepG2 cells than alginate alone. In addition, we found that the adhesion of HepG2 cells on the chitosan-alginate fiber is much better than that on the alginate fibers. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3576903]
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