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BIOMATERIALS
卷 26, 期 23, 页码 4786-4792出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2004.11.043
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microcapsule; cell encapsulation; microencapsulation; transplantation; polysaccharide; cell viability
Agarose capsules were prepared using a droplet breakup method in a coflowing stream. Subsieve-size capsules 76 +/- 9 mu m in diameter were obtained by extruding 4 wt% agarose solution from a needle (300 mu m inner diameter) at a velocity of 1.2 cm/s into an ambient liquid paraffin flow of 20.8 cm/s. Increasing the flow rate of the liquid paraffin and decreasing that of the agarose solution resulted in a decreased resultant capsule diameter. Reduction in diameter from several hundred micrometers to subsieve-size (< 100 mu m) enhanced molecular exchange and mechanical stability. Measurements based on the percentage of intact mitochondria in the cells demonstrated that the viability of the enclosed cells was independent of capsule diameter. No significant difference was observed between the viabilities of cells enclosed in capsules with diameters of 79 +/- 8 and 351 +/- 41 mu m (p = 0.43). Compared with cells seeded in a tissue culture dish, the cells enclosed in the subsieve-size capsules showed 89.2% viability. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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