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Os autores gostariam de reconhecer a Lynn e Mike Garvey imagem Laboratório do Instituto de Células Estaminais e Medicina Regenerativa, bem como o Mecanismo de Washington Nanofabricação da Universidade de Washington. Eles também agradecem o apoio financeiro do Instituto Nacional de Saúde concede DP2DK102258 (para YZ) e formação concede T32EB001650 (a SSK e MAR) e T32HL007312 (MAR).

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Engineered microvasos são um modelo in vitro onde as características fisiológicas, tais como a geometria do lúmen, as forças hidrodinâmicas, e interacções multi-celulares estão presentes e sintonizável. Este tipo de plataforma é poderosa na medida em que oferece a capacidade para modelar e estudar o comportamento endotelial numa variedade de contextos em que as condições de cultura in vitro podem ser combinados com a do microambiente em questão. Por exemplo, os mecanismos de condução pr...

A microvasculatura em cada órgão ajuda a definir o microambiente tecido, manter a homeostase do tecido e regular a inflamação, a permeabilidade, a trombose, e fibrinólise 1,2. Endotélio microvascular, em particular, é a interface entre o fluxo de sangue e o tecido circundante e, por conseguinte, desempenha um papel crítico na modulação da função do órgão e vascular em resposta a estímulos, tais como as forças hidrodinâmicas e citoquinas e hormonas circulantes 3 ​​- 5. Compreendendo as interacções específicas entre o endotélio, o sangue, e o microambiente circundante do tecido é importante para o estudo da biologia vascular e a progressão da doença. No entanto, o progresso em estudar essas interações tem sido dificultada pela limitação em ferramentas in vitro que não recapitulam na estrutura microvascular vivo e função 6,7. Como resultado, o campo e avanço terapêutico tem se baseou fortemente em caro e tempo-consumir modelos animais, que muitas vezes não conseguem traduzir para o sucesso em seres humanos 8 - 10. Enquanto modelos in vivo são de valor inestimável no estudo dos mecanismos da doença e funções vasculares, eles são complexos e muitas vezes não têm controle preciso do indivíduo celulares, bioquímicos e biofísicos pistas. Vasculatura por todo o corpo possui uma estrutura hierárquica madura em conjunto com leitos capilares expansivas, proporcionando perfusão otimizado e transporte de nutrientes simultaneamente 11. Inicialmente, as formas vasculatura como um plexo primitiva, que reorganiza a uma rede hierarquicamente ramificada durante o desenvolvimento precoce 12,13. Embora muitos dos sinais envolvidos nestes processos são bem compreendidos 14-16, permanece elusiva como tal modelação vascular é determinada 15. Por sua vez, recapitulando este processo in vitro para projetar redes vasculares organizados tem a abelhan. Muitas in vitro plataformas difíceis existentes para modelar vasculatura, tais como culturas de células endoteliais duas dimensões, não têm características importantes, tais como a proximidade de multi-celular, três luminal geometria dimensional, fluxo, e a matriz extracelular. Tubo de ensaios de formação em hidrogéis 3D (colágeno ou fibrina) 17 - 19 ou invasão ensaios 20,21 têm sido utilizados para estudar a função endotelial em 3D e suas interações com outros vasculares 17,22 ou de células do tecido tipos 23. No entanto, montados em lúmens estes ensaios não têm interconectividade, fluxo hemodinâmico, e perfusão adequada. Além disso, a propensão para a regressão vascular nestes ensaios de formação de tubo 24 evita a cultura a longo prazo e a maturação o que limita o grau de estudos funcionais que podem ser executadas. Assim, há uma necessidade crescente de engenheiro em plataformas in vitro de redes microvasculares que podem modelar adequadamente enendotelial características e são capazes de cultura a longo prazo. Uma variedade de técnicas de engenharia vasculares têm surgido ao longo dos anos para aplicações médicas para substituir ou vasos de bypass afetados em pacientes com doença vascular. Vasos de grande diâmetro feitas de materiais sintéticos, tais como tereftalato de polietileno (PET), e politetrafluoroetileno (ePTFE) tiveram sucesso terapêutico considerável com permeabilidade longo prazo (média desobstrução de 95% mais de 5 anos) 25. Apesar de pequeno diâmetro enxertos sintéticos (&lt;6 mm) geralmente enfrentam complicações como a hiperplasia da íntima e trombopoiese 26 - 28, da engenharia de tecidos enxertos de pequeno diâmetro feitos com material biológico fizeram progressos significativos 29,30. Apesar dos avanços desse tipo, vasos de engenharia em microescala mantiveram-se um desafio. Para modelar adequadamente a microcirculação, é necessário para gerar padrões de rede complexos com sufficiente de resistência mecânica para manter a desobstrução, e com uma composição da matriz que permite tanto a permeação de nutrientes para as células parenquimatosas e remodelação celular. Este protocolo apresenta um romance rede de vasos perfusable artificial que imita um nativo in vivo configuração com um ajustável e controlável microambiente 31-34. O método descrito gera microvasos artificiais, com diâmetros na ordem de 100 um. microvasos engenharia são fabricados por perfusão células endoteliais através de um canal microfluídico que está incorporado dentro do tipo macio I colágeno hidrogel. Este sistema tem a capacidade de gerar redes estampados com estrutura luminal aberta, replicar interações multi-celulares, modular a composição da matriz extracelular, e aplicar forças hemodinâmicas fisiologicamente relevantes.

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ID, 3/32&quot; OD Silicon Tubing</td><td>Cole-Parmer</td><td>EW-95702-00</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>1/16&quot; Tube-to-tube Coupling</td><td>McMaster-Carr</td><td>5116K165</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>90&amp;deg; Elbow Connectors, Tube-to-Tube</td><td>McMaster-Carr</td><td>5121K901</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Luer Lock Coupling (Female, 1/16&quot; ID)</td><td>McMaster-Carr</td><td>51525K211</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Plastic Forceps, with Jaw Grips</td><td>Electron Microscopy Services</td><td>72971</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Dual Syringe Pump</td><td>Harvard Apparatus</td><td>70-4505</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>5 ml Polystyrene Round-bottom tube</td><td>Fisher Scientific</td><td>14-959-2A</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>&lt;strong&gt;Device Analysis&lt;/strong&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Formaldehyde</td><td>Sigma-Aldrich</td><td>F8775</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Bovine Serum Albumin</td><td>Sigma-Aldrich</td><td>A8806-5G</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Triton X-100</td><td>Sigma-Aldrich</td><td>T-9284</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Rabbit anti-hCD31</td><td>Abcam</td><td>ab32457</td><td>1:25 working dilution</td></tr><tr><td>FITC conjugated anti-von Willebrand Factor antibody</td><td>Abcam</td><td>ab8822</td><td>1:100 working dilution</td></tr><tr><td>Goat anti-rabbit 568 secondary antibody</td><td>Thermofisher Scientific</td><td>A-11011</td><td>1:100 working dilution</td></tr><tr><td>Hoescht</td><td>Thermofisher Scientific</td><td>H1399</td><td>Resuspended in DMSO</td></tr><tr><td>Sodium cacodylate&amp;nbsp;</td><td>Sigma-Aldrich</td><td>C0250</td><td>To make 0.2 M cacodylate buffer</td></tr><tr><td>Ethanol</td><td>VWR International</td><td>BDH1164-4LP</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>40 kDa FITC-conjugated Dextran</td><td>Sigma-Aldrich</td><td>FD40S&amp;nbsp;</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>&lt;strong&gt;Additional Culture Reagents&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>CHIR-99021</td><td>Selleck Chem</td><td>S2924</td><td>Small molecule GSK-3 inhibitor</td></tr><tr><td>Human recombinant VEGF</td><td>Peprotech</td><td>100-20</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Human recombinant bFGF</td><td>Peprotech</td><td>AF-100-18B</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

micropatterning and assembly of 3d microvessels

Em plataformas in vitro para estudar as células endoteliais e biologia vascular são largamente limitadas à cultura de células endoteliais 2D, câmaras de fluxo com o polímero ou com base substratos de vidro, e ensaios de formação de tubos à base de hidrogel. Estes ensaios, enquanto informativo, não recapitular geometria luz, matriz extracelular adequada, e proximidade multi-celular, que desempenham um papel-chave na modulação da função vascular. Este manuscrito descreve um método de moldagem por injeção para gerar vasos artificiais, com diâmetros da ordem de 100 mm. Microvasos são fabricados semeando células endoteliais em um canal microfluídico incorporado dentro de um tipo nativo I colágeno hidrogel. Ao incorporar nas células do parênquima dentro da matriz de colagénio antes da formação de canal, microambientes específicos de tecido podem ser modelados e estudados. modulações adicionais de propriedades e meios de comunicação hidrodinâmico composição permitir o controlo da função vascular complexa dentro do microambiente desejado.Essa plataforma permite o estudo de recrutamento perivascular de células, as interacções do sangue do endotélio, a resposta de fluxo, e as interacções de tecidos-microvascular. microvasos Engineered oferecer a capacidade de isolar a influência de componentes individuais de um nicho vascular e controlar com precisão as suas químicas, mecânicas e propriedades biológicas para estudar a biologia vascular na saúde e na doença.

O navio-plataforma projetada cria microvasculatura funcional incorporado dentro de um tipo natural de colágeno I matriz e permite um controlo apertado do ambiente celular, biofísicos e bioquímicos in vitro. Para fabricar microvasos modificadas, as células endoteliais da veia umbilical humana (HUVECs) são perfundidos através da rede microfluídicos embebidos em colágeno onde se fixam para formar um lúmen de patentes e endotélio confluentes. Como ilustrado na Figu...

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Micropatterning and Assembly of 3D Microvessels

Este manuscrito apresenta um método de moldagem por injeção para engenheiro microvasos que recapitulam propriedades fisiológicas de endotélio. O processo baseado em microfluídico cria redes vasculares 3D patente com condições tailorable, tais como fluxo, composição celular, geometria e gradientes bioquímicos. O processo de fabricação e exemplos de aplicações potenciais são descritos.

Micropatterning e Montagem de microvasos 3D

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11.7K visualizações.  University of Washington.  Este manuscrito apresenta um método de moldagem por injeção para engenheiro microvasos que recapitulam propriedades fisiológicas de endotélio. O processo baseado em microfluídico cria redes vasculares 3D patente com condições tailorable, tais como fluxo, composição celular, geometria e gradientes bioquímicos. O processo de fabricação e exemplos de aplicações potenciais são descritos. 

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Process of Making Three-dimensional Microstructures using Vaporization of a Sacrificial Component

Vascular structures in natural systems are able to provide high mass transport through high surface areas and optimized structure. Few synthetic material fabrication techniques are able to mimic the complexity of these structures while maintaining scalability. The Vaporization of a Sacrificial Component (VaSC) process is able to do so. This process uses sacrificial fibers as a template to form hollow, cylindrical microchannels embedded within a matrix. Tin (II) oxalate (SnOx) is embedded within poly(lactic) acid (PLA) fibers which facilitates the use of this process. The SnOx catalyzes the depolymerization of the PLA fibers at lower temperatures. The lactic acid monomers are gaseous at these temperatures and can be removed from the embedded matrix at temperatures that do not damage the matrix. Here we show a method for aligning these fibers using micromachined plates and a tensioning device to create complex patterns of three-dimensionally arrayed microchannels. The process allows the exploration of virtually any arrangement of fiber topologies and structures.

The Vaporization of a Sacrificial Component (VaSC) process is used to fabricate microvascular structures. This procedure uses sacrificial poly(lactic) acid fibers to form hollow microchannels with precise 3D geometric positioning provided by laser micromachined guide plates.

Processo de fabricação de microestruturas tridimensionais usando vaporização de um componente sacrificial

Vascular structures in natural systems are able to provide high mass transport through high surface areas and optimized structure. Few synthetic material ...

Engenharia

A Microfluidic Device with Groove Patterns for Studying Cellular Behavior

We describe a microfluidic device with microgrooved patterns for studying cellular behavior. This microfluidic platform consists of a top fluidic channel and a bottom microgrooved substrate. To fabricate the microgrooved channels, a top poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) mold containing the impression of the microfluidic channels was aligned and bonded to a microgrooved substrate. Using this device, mouse fibroblast cells were immobilized and patterned within microgrooved substrates (25, 50, 75, and 100 &mu;m wide). To study apoptosis in a microfluidic device, media containing hydrogen peroxide, Annexin V, and propidium iodide was perfused into the fluidic channel for 2 hours. We found that cells exposed to the oxidative stress became apoptotic. These apoptotic cells were confirmed by Annexin V that bound to phosphatidylserine at the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane during the apoptosis process. Using this microfluidic device with microgrooved patterns, the apoptosis process was observed in real-time and analyzed by using an inverted microscope containing an incubation chamber (37&deg;C, 5% CO2). Therefore, this microfluidic device incorporated with microgrooved substrates could be useful for studying the cellular behavior and performing high-throughput drug screening.

We describe a protocol for the fabrication of microfluidic devices that can enable cell capture and culture. In this approach patterned microstructures such as grooves within microfluidic channels are used to create low shear stress regions within which cell can dock.

Um dispositivo micro com padrões Groove para estudar o comportamento celular

We describe a microfluidic device with microgrooved patterns for studying cellular behavior.  This microfluidic platform consists of a top fluidic channel ...

Biologia

Microfabrication of Chip-sized Scaffolds for Three-dimensional Cell cultivation

Using microfabrication technologies is a prerequisite to create scaffolds of reproducible geometry and constant quality for three-dimensional cell cultivation. These technologies offer a wide spectrum of advantages not only for manufacturing but also for different applications. The size and shape of formed cell clusters can be influenced by the exact and reproducible architecture of the microfabricated scaffold and, therefore, the diffusion path length of nutrients and gases can be controlled.1 This is unquestionably a useful tool to prevent apoptosis and necrosis of cells due to an insufficient nutrient and gas supply or removal of cellular metabolites.
Our polymer chip, called CellChip, has the outer dimensions of 2 x 2 cm with a central microstructured area. This area is subdivided into an array of up to 1156 microcontainers with a typical dimension of 300 m edge length for the cubic design (cp- or cf-chip) or of 300 m diameter and depth for the round design (r-chip).2
So far, hot embossing or micro injection moulding (in combination with subsequent laborious machining of the parts) was used for the fabrication of the microstructured chips. Basically, micro injection moulding is one of the only polymer based replication techniques that, up to now, is capable for mass production of polymer microstructures.3 However, both techniques have certain unwanted limitations due to the processing of a viscous polymer melt with the generation of very thin walls or integrated through holes. In case of the CellChip, thin bottom layers are necessary to perforate the polymer and provide small pores of defined size to supply cells with culture medium e.g. by microfluidic perfusion of the containers.
In order to overcome these limitations and to reduce the manufacturing costs we have developed a new microtechnical approach on the basis of a down-scaled thermoforming process. For the manufacturing of highly porous and thin walled polymer chips, we use a combination of heavy ion irradiation, microthermoforming and track etching. In this so called "SMART" process (Substrate Modification And Replication by Thermoforming) thin polymer films are irradiated with energetic heavy projectiles of several hundred MeV introducing so-called "latent tracks" Subsequently, the film in a rubber elastic state is formed into three dimensional parts without modifying or annealing the tracks. After the forming process, selective chemical etching finally converts the tracks into cylindrical pores of adjustable diameter.

We present two processes for the microfabrication of porous polymer chips for three-dimensional cell cultivation. The first one is hot embossing combined with a solvent vapour welding process. The second one uses a recently developed microthermoforming process combined with ion track technology leading to a significant simplification of manufacture.

Microfabricação de Chip porte Andaimes para tridimensional de cultivo celular

Using microfabrication technologies is a prerequisite to create scaffolds of reproducible geometry and constant quality for three-dimensional cell ...

Capillary-based Centrifugal Microfluidic Device for Size-controllable Formation of Monodisperse Microdroplets

Here, we demonstrate a simple method for the rapid production of size-controllable, monodisperse, W/O microdroplets using a capillary-based centrifugal microfluidic device. W/O microdroplets have recently been used in powerful methods that enable miniaturized chemical experiments. Therefore, developing a versatile method to yield monodisperse W/O microdroplets is needed. We have developed a method for generating monodisperse W/O microdroplets based on a capillary-based centrifugal axisymmetric co-flowing microfluidic device. We succeeded in controlling the size of microdroplets by adjusting the capillary orifice. Our method requires equipment that is easier-to-use than with other microfluidic techniques, requires only a small volume (0.1-1 &#181;l) of sample solution for encapsulation, and enables the production of hundreds of thousands number of W/O microdroplets per second. We expect this method will assist biological studies that require precious biological samples by conserving the volume of the samples for rapid quantitative analysis biochemical and biological studies.

Here, we demonstrate a simple production method for size-controllable, monodisperse, water-in-oil (W/O) microdroplets using a capillary-based centrifugal microfluidic device. This method requires only a small sample volume and enables high-yield production. We expect this method will be useful for rapid biochemical and cellular analyses.

Dispositivo micro centrífuga baseada capilar para a Formação tamanho controlável de Monodisperse microgotas

Here, we demonstrate a simple method for the rapid production of size-controllable, monodisperse, W/O microdroplets using a capillary-based centrifugal ...

Formation of Biomembrane Microarrays with a Squeegee-based Assembly Method

Lipid bilayer membranes form the plasma membranes of cells and define the boundaries of subcellular organelles. In nature, these membranes are heterogeneous mixtures of many types of lipids, contain membrane-bound proteins and are decorated with carbohydrates. In some experiments, it is desirable to decouple the biophysical or biochemical properties of the lipid bilayer from those of the natural membrane. Such cases call for the use of model systems such as giant vesicles, liposomes or supported lipid bilayers (SLBs). Arrays of SLBs are particularly attractive for sensing applications and mimicking cell-cell interactions. Here we describe a new method for forming SLB arrays. Submicron-diameter SiO2 beads are first coated with lipid bilayers to form spherical SLBs (SSLBs). The beads are then deposited into an array of micro-fabricated submicron-diameter microwells. The preparation technique uses a "squeegee" to clean the substrate surface, while leaving behind SSLBs that have settled into microwells. This method requires no chemical modification of the microwell substrate, nor any particular targeting ligands on the SSLB. Microwells are occupied by single beads because the well diameter is tuned to be just larger than the bead diameter. Typically, more 75% of the wells are occupied, while the rest remain empty. In buffer SSLB arrays display long-term stability of greater than one week. Multiple types of SSLBs can be placed in a single array by serial deposition, and the arrays can be used for sensing, which we demonstrate by characterizing the interaction of cholera toxin with ganglioside GM1. We also show that phospholipid vesicles without the bead supports and biomembranes from cellular sources can be arrayed with the same method and cell-specific membrane lipids can be identified.

Supported lipid bilayers and natural membrane particles are convenient systems that can approximate the properties of cell membranes and be incorporated in a variety of analytical strategies. Here we demonstrate a method for preparing microarrays composed of supported lipid bilayer-coated SiO2 beads, phospholipid vesicles or natural membrane particles.

Formação de biomembrana Microarrays com um método de montagem baseada em Rodo

Lipid bilayer membranes form the plasma membranes of cells and define the boundaries of subcellular organelles. In nature, these membranes are ...

Bioengenharia

Lipid Bilayer Vesicle Generation Using Microfluidic Jetting

Bottom-up synthetic biology presents a novel approach for investigating and reconstituting biochemical systems and, potentially, minimal organisms. This emerging field engages engineers, chemists, biologists, and physicists to design and assemble basic biological components into complex, functioning systems from the bottom up. Such bottom-up systems could lead to the development of artificial cells for fundamental biological inquiries and innovative therapies1,2. Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) can serve as a model platform for synthetic biology due to their cell-like membrane structure and size. Microfluidic jetting, or microjetting, is a technique that allows for the generation of GUVs with controlled size, membrane composition, transmembrane protein incorporation, and encapsulation3. The basic principle of this method is the use of multiple, high-frequency fluid pulses generated by a piezo-actuated inkjet device to deform a suspended lipid bilayer into a GUV. The process is akin to blowing soap bubbles from a soap film. By varying the composition of the jetted solution, the composition of the encompassing solution, and/or the components included in the bilayer, researchers can apply this technique to create customized vesicles. This paper describes the procedure to generate simple vesicles from a droplet interface bilayer by microjetting.

Microfluidic jetting against a droplet interface lipid bilayer provides a reliable way to generate vesicles with control over membrane asymmetry, incorporation of transmembrane proteins, and encapsulation of material. This technique can be applied to study a variety of biological systems where compartmentalized biomolecules are desired.

Lipid Bilayer Vesicle Geração Usando Microfluidic jateamento

Bottom-up synthetic biology presents a novel approach for investigating and reconstituting biochemical systems and, potentially, minimal organisms. This ...

Patterning of Microorganisms and Microparticles through Sequential Capillarity-assisted Assembly

Controlled patterning of microorganisms into defined spatial arrangements offers unique possibilities for a broad range of biological applications, including studies of microbial physiology and interactions. At the simplest level, accurate spatial patterning of microorganisms would enable reliable, long-term imaging of large numbers of individual cells and transform the ability to quantitatively study distance-dependent microbe-microbe interactions. More uniquely, coupling accurate spatial patterning and full control over environmental conditions, as offered by microfluidic technology, would provide a powerful and versatile platform for single-cell studies in microbial ecology. 
This paper presents a microfluidic platform to produce versatile and user-defined patterns of microorganisms within a microfluidic channel, allowing complete optical access for long-term, high-throughput monitoring. This new microfluidic technology is based on capillarity-assisted particle assembly and exploits the capillary forces arising from the controlled motion of an evaporating suspension inside a microfluidic channel to deposit individual microsized objects in an array of traps microfabricated onto a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) substrate. Sequential depositions generate the desired spatial layout of single or multiple types of micro-sized objects, dictated solely by the geometry of the traps and the filling sequence. 
The platform has been calibrated using colloidal particles of different dimensions and materials: it has proven to be a powerful tool to generate diverse colloidal patterns and perform surface functionalization of trapped particles. Furthermore, the platform was tested on microbial cells, using Escherichia coli cells as a model bacterium. Thousands of individual cells were patterned on the surface, and their growth was monitored over time. In this platform, the coupling of single-cell deposition and microfluidic technology allows both geometric patterning of microorganisms and precise control of environmental conditions. It thus opens a window into the physiology of single microbes and the ecology of microbe-microbe interactions, as shown by preliminary experiments.

We present a technology that uses capillarity-assisted assembly in a microfluidic platform to pattern micro-sized objects suspended in a liquid, such as bacteria and colloids, into prescribed arrays on a polydimethylsiloxane substrate.

Padronização de Microrganismos e Micropartículas através da Montagem Sequencial assistida pela Capilaridade

Controlled patterning of microorganisms into defined spatial arrangements offers unique possibilities for a broad range of biological applications, ...

Image-guided, Laser-based Fabrication of Vascular-derived Microfluidic Networks

This detailed protocol outlines the implementation of image-guided, laser-based hydrogel degradation for the fabrication of vascular-derived microfluidic networks embedded in PEGDA hydrogels. Here, we describe the creation of virtual masks that allow for image-guided laser control; the photopolymerization of a micromolded PEGDA hydrogel, suitable for microfluidic network fabrication and pressure head-driven flow; the setup and use of a commercially available laser scanning confocal microscope paired with a femtosecond pulsed Ti:S laser to induce hydrogel degradation; and the imaging of fabricated microfluidic networks using fluorescent species and confocal microscopy. Much of the protocol is focused on the proper setup and implementation of the microscope software and microscope macro, as these are crucial steps in using a commercial microscope for microfluidic fabrication purposes that contain a number of intricacies. The image-guided component of this technique allows for the implementation of 3D image stacks or user-generated 3D models, thereby allowing for creative microfluidic design and for the fabrication of complex microfluidic systems of virtually any configuration. With an expected impact in tissue engineering, the methods outlined in this protocol could aid in the fabrication of advanced biomimetic microtissue constructs for organ- and human-on-a-chip devices. By mimicking the complex architecture, tortuosity, size, and density of in vivo vasculature, essential biological transport processes can be replicated in these constructs, leading to more accurate in vitro modeling of drug pharmacokinetics and disease.

This protocol outlines the implementation of image-guided, laser-based hydrogel degradation to fabricate vascular-derived, biomimetic microfluidic networks embedded in poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) hydrogels. These biomimetic microfluidic systems may be useful for tissue engineering applications, generation of in vitro disease models, and fabrication of advanced "on-a-chip" devices.

guiado por imagem, fabricação à base de laser de Redes microfluídicos Vascular derivadas

This detailed protocol outlines the implementation of image-guided, laser-based hydrogel degradation for the fabrication of vascular-derived microfluidic ...

A Versatile Method of Patterning Proteins and Cells

Substrate and cell patterning techniques are widely used in cell biology to study cell-to-cell and cell-to-substrate interactions. Conventional patterning techniques work well only with simple shapes, small areas and selected bio-materials. This article describes a method to distribute cell suspensions as well as substrate solutions into complex, long, closed (dead-end) polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microchannels using negative pressure. This method enables researchers to pattern multiple substrates including fibronectin, collagen, antibodies (Sal-1), poly-D-lysine (PDL), and laminin. Patterning of substrates allows one to indirectly pattern a variety of cells. We have tested C2C12 myoblasts, the PC12 neuronal cell line, embryonic rat cortical neurons, and amphibian retinal neurons. In addition, we demonstrate that this technique can directly pattern fibroblasts in microfluidic channels via brief application of a low vacuum on cell suspensions. The low vacuum does not significantly decrease cell viability as shown by cell viability assays. Modifications are discussed for application of the method to different cell and substrate types. This technique allows researchers to pattern cells and proteins in specific patterns without the need for exotic materials or equipment and can be done in any laboratory with a vacuum.

This report describes a simple, easy to perform technique, using low pressure vacuum, to fill microfluidic channels with cells and substrates for biological research.

Um método versátil de padronização proteínas e células

Substrate and cell patterning techniques are widely used in cell biology to study cell-to-cell and cell-to-substrate interactions. Conventional patterning ...

Control of Cell Geometry through Infrared Laser Assisted Micropatterning

Micropatterning is an established technique in the cell biology community used to study connections between the morphology and function of cellular compartments while circumventing complications arising from natural cell-to-cell variations. To standardize cell shape, cells are either confined in 3D molds or controlled for adhesive geometry through adhesive islands. However, traditional micropatterning techniques based on photolithography and deep UV etching heavily depend on clean rooms or specialized equipment. Here we present an infrared laser assisted micropatterning technique (microphotopatterning) modified from Doyle et al. that can be conveniently set up with commercially available imaging systems. In this protocol, we use a Nikon A1R MP+ imaging system to generate micropatterns with micron precision through an infrared (IR) laser that ablates preset regions on poly-vinyl alcohol coated coverslips. We employ a custom script to enable automated pattern fabrication with high efficiency and accuracy in systems not equipped with a hardware autofocus. We show that this IR laser assisted micropatterning (microphotopatterning) protocol results in defined patterns to which cells attach exclusively and take on the desired shape. Furthermore, data from a large number of cells can be averaged due to the standardization of cell shape. Patterns generated with this protocol, combined with high resolution imaging and quantitative analysis, can be used for relatively high throughput screens to identify molecular players mediating the link between form and function.

The protocol presented here enables automated fabrication of micropatterns that standardizes cell shape to study cytoskeletal structures within mammalian cells. This user-friendly technique can be set up with commercially available imaging systems and does not require specialized equipment inaccessible to standard cell biology laboratories.

Controle da Geometria Celular através de Micropatterning Assistido por Laser Infravermelho

Micropatterning is an established technique in the cell biology community used to study connections between the morphology and function of cellular ...