期刊
BIOMATERIALS
卷 34, 期 22, 页码 5588-5593出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.04.014
关键词
Regenerative medicine; Integrated thermoplastic multilayer microfluidic device; High-throughput and efficient cell sorting platform; Separation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells from primary cultures
资金
- National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Genome Canada/Genome Quebec
- Faculty of Medicine at McGill
- Fonds de recherche du Quebec - Nature et technologies (FQRNT)
- NSERC-CREATE Integrated Sensor Systems
- Department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill
Despite the advances made in the field of regenerative medicine, the progress in cutting-edge technologies for separating target therapeutic cells are still at early stage of development. These cells are often rare, such as stem cells or progenitor cells that their overall properties should be maintained during the separation process for their subsequent application in regenerative medicine. This work, presents separation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) from rat brain primary cultures using an integrated thermoplastic elastomeric (TPE)- based multilayer microfluidic device fabricated using hot-embossing technology. OPCs are frequently used in recovery, repair and regeneration of central nervous system after injuries. Indeed, their ability to differentiate in vitro into myelinating oligodendrocytes, are extremely important for myelin repair. OPCs form 5-10% of the glial cells population. The traditional macroscale techniques for OPCs separation require pre-processing of cells and/or multiple time consuming steps with low efficiency leading very often to alteration of their properties. The proposed methodology implies to separate OPCs based on their smaller size compared to other cells from the brain tissue mixture. Using aforementioned microfluidic chip embedded with a 5 mu m membrane pore size and micropumping system, a separation efficiency more than 99% was achieved. This microchip was able to operate at flow rates up to 100 mu l/min, capable of separating OPCs from a confluent 75 cm(2) cell culture flask in less than 10 min, which provides us with a high-throughput and highly efficient separation expected from any cell sorting techniques. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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