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Los autores reconocen programa de investigación creativa de la Universidad de Clemson y NSF CBET1254609 para proporcionar fondos para este proyecto.

1. La producción de una Cámara de microcanales para crear un gradiente de concentración <ol><li> Cortar una pieza de molde de acrílico <ol><li> Obtener una pieza de acrílico de la anchura deseada. Típicamente utilizar hojas de acrílico 1/16 pulgadas de espesor. hojas más gruesas son difíciles de cortar bien y muy delgadas hojas no tienen la resistencia mecánica, provocando su rotura o deformación durante el proceso. </li><li> Crear un archivo CAD con la forma deseada de la pieza de acrílic...

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Nuestra cámara de microcanal puede ser utilizado para una multitud de propósitos, incluyendo la determinación de la tasa de migración celular en respuesta a factores de crecimiento y factores quimiotácticos y la medición de la velocidad de difusión de un fármaco a partir de una matriz de polímero. Es posible utilizar nuestra cámara de microcanal para hacer crecer células y colocar un quimioatrayente en un extremo de la cámara. Las células crecen en respuesta a la quimioatrayente, y la migración de las cél...

In order for vital processes such as wound healing, immune responses, and embryonic development to occur, cell migration must take place. Cell migration involves the interaction between cells and neighboring cells, the extracellular matrix, and soluble chemical cues (attractants or repellants). As an example, in the process of wound healing, fibroblasts play an integral role in fibrogenesis and wound contraction, where the cells are recruited to the site of injury to synthesize collagen in order to form the extracellular matrix3. Numerous mechanisms behind the migration of fibroblasts to a wound site have been studied, and they include different mechanical, physical, electrical, and chemotactic factors4. Fibroblasts respond especially well to different concentration gradients of growth factors. These different growth factors work together to optimize tissue regeneration5. While observing the chemotactic response of fibroblasts to growth factor concentrations, one can study the pattern of directional migration of fibroblasts and how they orient themselves around physical obstacles in order to reach their destination. Therefore, the goals of this study were to first develop a system in which fibroblast growth could be tracked under guidance by physical barriers and to secondly model the growth of fibroblasts as they navigate through the system.
Currently, the Boyden chamber assay is the most widely used system to measure the migration of cells6. The Boyden chamber consists of a two-chamber multi-well plate where each well may contain medium with or without chemoattractants7. A filter membrane provides a porous interface between the two chambers in each well; this creates a barrier so that cells cannot pass through unless it is by active migration. Typically, for the Boyden chamber, a chemoattractant is added to the lower chamber, and the system is allowed to equilibrate to form a gradient between the upper and lower wells4. One problem with the Boyden chamber assay is that steep gradients end up forming along a single axis perpendicular with the surface of the membrane. This causes the difference in the chemoattractant concentration between the upper and lower wells to be a lower than what was originally expected. Due to this constraint, the Boyden chamber assay makes it hard to correlate specific cell responses with particular gradient characteristics, such as the slope and the concentration difference. Without these measurements, it is hard to study multi-gradient signal integration.
To address some of the constraints of the traditional Boyden chamber assay, microfluidic assays have been developed to form customizable concentration gradients1. Standard methods for creating microfluidic systems require clean rooms for lithographic techniques. These techniques can be difficult to learn especially in a standard classroom setting. Thus, we have designed a chamber system for measuring cell migration that can be made without using a clean room. Using our system, the wells of the assay can be adjusted to a preferred size, and a linear concentration gradient of customized slope can be produced. This allows for accurate measurement of chemotaxis from random movement. The design is an inexpensive and easy-to-use system to model cell growth in response to different chemical stimuli.

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a customizable chamber for measuring cell migration

La migración celular es una parte vital de la respuesta inmune, el crecimiento y la cicatrización de heridas. La migración celular es un proceso complejo que implica interacciones entre las células, la matriz extracelular, y factores químicos solubles y no solubles (por ejemplo, factores quimiotácticos). Los métodos estándar para la medición de la migración de las células, tales como el ensayo de cámara de Boyden, el trabajo contando las células a ambos lados de un divisor. Estas técnicas son fáciles de usar; Sin embargo, ofrecen poca modificación geométrica para diferentes aplicaciones. En contraste, los dispositivos de microfluidos pueden ser utilizados para observar la migración de células con gradientes de concentración personalizables de factores solubles 1, 2. Sin embargo, los métodos para hacer los ensayos de microfluidos basados ​​pueden ser difíciles de aprender. A continuación, describimos un método fácil para la creación de cámaras de cultivo de células para medir la migración de células en respuesta a gradientes de concentración químicos. Nuestros millas celularesmétodo de la cámara gración puede crear diferentes gradientes de concentración lineal con el fin de estudiar la migración celular para una variedad de aplicaciones. Este método es relativamente fácil de usar y se lleva a cabo normalmente por los estudiantes universitarios. La cámara de microcanal fue creado por la colocación de un inserto acrílico en la forma de la cámara de microcanal final por pocillo en una placa de Petri. Después de esto, poli (dimetilsiloxano) (PDMS) se vertió en la parte superior del inserto. El PDMS se deja endurecer y después se eliminó la inserción. Esto permitió la creación de los pozos en cualquier forma o tamaño deseado. Las células se pueden añadir posteriormente a la cámara de microcanal, y agentes solubles se pueden añadir a uno de los pozos por remojo un bloque de agarosa en el agente deseado. El bloque de agarosa se añade a uno de los pozos, y las imágenes de lapso de tiempo puede ser tomada de la cámara de microcanal con el fin de cuantificar la migración celular. Las variaciones de este método se pueden hacer para una aplicación determinada, por lo que este método higHly personalizable.

La figura 2 muestra el movimiento de la parte delantera de células a través del canal en respuesta a un gradiente de suero bovino fetal colocado en el extremo opuesto del canal, desde donde se siembran las células. El frente celular se muestra a las 48 h (figura 2A), 72 h (Figura 2B), 96 h (Figura 2C), y 120 h (Figura 2D) post chapado. El movimiento de la parte frontal de células fue rastreado con es...

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