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Real-time monitoring of immune responses under pathogen invasion and drug interference by integrated microfluidic device coupled with worm-based biosensor

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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
卷 110, 期 -, 页码 233-238

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ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2018.03.058

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Microfluidic chip; Worm-based biosensor; Immune responses; in vivo analysis; Drug evaluation

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  1. National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFF0100801]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21475049, 31471257, 21275060]
  3. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2016YXZD061]

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Immune response to environmental pathogen invasion is a complex process to prevent host from further damage. For quantitatively understanding immune responses and revealing the pathogenic environmental information, real-time monitoring of such a whole dynamic process with single-animal resolution in well-defined environments is highly desired. In this work, an integrated microfluidic device coupled with worm-based biosensor was proposed for in vivo studies of dynamic immune responses and antibiotics interference in infected C. elegans. Individual worms housed in chambers were exposed to the various pathogens and discontinuously manipulated for imaging with limited influence on physiological activities. The expression of immune responses gene (irg-1) was time-lapse measured in intact worms during pathogen infection. Results demonstrated that irg-1 gene could be induced in the presence of P. aeruginosa strain PA14 in a dose-dependent manner, and the survival of infected worm could be rescued under gentamicin or erythromycin treatments. We expect it to be a versatile platform to facilitate future studies on pathogenesis researches and rapid drug screen using C. elegans disease model.

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