Tracheal Secretion Collection from Mechanically Ventilated Patients
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Experimental Setup
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Results: Use of Microfluidics to Obtain Label-free Neutrophil from Patient Clinical Airway Secretions
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Conclusion
Transcript
This method can help answer key questions in the pulmonary diseases research such as pneumonia, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The main advantage of this technique is to isolate and enrich patient neutrophil fr
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In this research, we demonstrate a label-free neutrophil separation method from clinical airway secretions using closed-loop operation of spiral inertial microfluidics. The proposed method would expand the clinical in vitro assays for various respiratory diseases.