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Fluid shear stress (FSS) plays a critical role in regulating endothelium function and maintaining vascular homeostasis. Current microfluidic devices for studying FSS effects on cells either separate high shear stress zone and low shear stress zone into different culturing chambers, or arranging the zones serially along the flow direction, which complicates subsequent data interpretation. In this paper, we report a diamond shaped microfluidic shear device where the high shear stress zone and the low shear stress zone are arranged in parallel within one culturing chamber. Since the zones with different shear stress magnitudes are aligned normal to the flow direction, the cells in one stress group are not substantially affected by the flow-induced cytokine/chemokine releases by cells in the other group. Cell loading experiments using human umbilical vein endothelial cells show that the device is able to reveal stress magnitude-dependent and loading duration-dependent cell responses. The co-existence of shear stress zones with varied magnitudes within the same culturing chamber not only ensures that all the cells are subject to the identical culturing conditions, but also allows the resemblance of the differential shear stress pattern in natural arterial conditions. The device is expected to provide a new solution for studying the effects of heterogeneous hemodynamic patterns in the onset and progression of various vascular diseases. 相似文献
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We developed a new method for releasing viable cells from affinity-based microfluidic devices. The lumen of a microchannel with a U-shape and user-designed microstructures was coated with supported lipid bilayers functionalized by epithelial cell adhesion molecule antibodies to capture circulating epithelial cells of influx solution. After the capturing process, air foam was introduced into channels for releasing target cells and then carrying them to a small area of membrane. The results show that when the air foam is driven at linear velocity of 4.2 mm/s for more than 20 min or at linear velocity of 8.4 mm/s for more than 10 min, the cell releasing efficiency approaches 100%. This flow-induced shear stress is much less than the physiological level (15 dyn/cm2), which is necessary to maintain the intactness of released cells. Combining the design of microstructures of the microfluidic system, the cell recovery on the membrane exceeds 90%. Importantly, we demonstrate that the cells released by air foam are viable and could be cultured in vitro. This novel method for releasing cells could power the microfluidic platform for isolating and identifying circulating tumor cells. 相似文献
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Systematic screening of algal cells is getting huge interest due to their capability of producing lipid-based biodiesel. Here, we introduce a new microfluidic platform composed of an array of perfusion chambers designed for long-term cultivation and preliminary screening of motile microalgal cells through loading and releasing of cells to and from the chambers. The chemical environment in each perfusion chamber was independently controlled for 5 days. The effect of nitrogen-depletion on the lipid production, phototaxis behavior in the absence of Ca2+, and cytotoxic effect of herbicide on microalgal cells was successfully monitored and compared with simultaneous control experiments on the platform. The present methodology could be extended to effective screening of algal cells and various cell lines for the production of biodiesel and other useful chemicals. 相似文献
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Rebecca Soffe Sara Baratchi Shi-Yang Tang Arnan Mitchell Peter McIntyre Khashayar Khoshmanesh 《Biomicrofluidics》2016,10(2)
Microfluidic platforms enable a variety of physical or chemical stimulation of single or multiple cells to be examined and monitored in real-time. To date, intracellular calcium signalling research is, however, predominantly focused on observing the response of cells to a single mode of stimulation; consequently, the sensitising/desensitising of cell responses under concurrent stimuli is not well studied. In this paper, we provide an extended Discontinuous Dielectrophoresis procedure to investigate the sensitising of chemical stimulation, over an extensive range of shear stress, up to 63 dyn/cm2, which encompasses shear stresses experienced in the arterial and venus systems (10 to 60 dyn/cm2). Furthermore, the TRPV4-selective agonist GSK1016790A, a form of chemical stimulation, did not influence the ability of the cells'' to remain immobilised under high levels of shear stress; thus, enabling us to investigate shear stress stimulation on agonism. Our experiments revealed that shear stress sensitises GSK1016790A-evoked intracellular calcium signalling of cells in a shear-stimulus dependent manner, as observed through a reduction in the cellular response time and an increase in the pharmacological efficacy. Consequently, suggesting that the role of TRPV4 may be underestimated in endothelial cells—which experience high levels of shear stress. This study highlights the importance of conducting studies at high levels of shear stress. Additionally, our approach will be valuable for examining the effect of high levels of shear on different cell types under different conditions, as presented here for agonist activation. 相似文献
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天山乌鲁木齐河源区径流水化学特征及影响因素分析 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
在乌鲁木齐河源区采集两年的大气降水和1号冰川、空冰斗、总控3个水文点逐日定时径流样品,对主要离子、pH、电导率EC和总溶解固体TDS进行了分析。结果表明,大气降水离子类型为Ca^2＋-Na^＋-HCO3--SO4^2-,接近中性;径流离子类型为Ca^2＋-Na^＋-HCO3--SO4^2-,呈弱碱性。径流中EC和TDS均值总控〉1号冰川〉空冰斗,其中1号冰川径流的峰值远高于其它两个水文点。受不同下垫面的影响,1号冰川水文点TDS变化受日径流量影响显著,而空冰斗水文点基本不受影响。径流中离子组成主要受岩石风化作用影响,离子比值和Piper图分析说明控制径流离子的主要过程是碳酸盐、黄铁矿和长石类矿物风化。海盐校正分析得出,大气降水对1号冰川、空冰斗、总控径流离子贡献率分别为4.91％,9．10％和5．42％。通过阳离子通量计算,2006年、2007年1号冰川径流的化学风化侵蚀率分别为18．1t／（km^2·a）和12．3t／（km^2·a）。 相似文献
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Laxmayya Sava Sandhya Pillai Umesh More Alka Sontakke 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2005,20(2):158-161
Measurement of serum free (ionized) calcium (Ca++) reflects true calcium status of the body in health and disease. Present study evaluates efficacy of Ca++ over total calcium (CaT) in serum for calcium status. 52 subjects were enrolled for study. Anaerobic fasting blood sample
for Ca++ measurement and autoclaved plain bulb for estimation of CaT, Total protein (TP) and Albumin was used. CaT, Corrected CaT,
Ca++, Calculated Ca++ were measured and correlated. Corrected CaT and calculated Ca++ were derived from the measured parameters. Study group showed significant difference between CaT and corrected CaT (p<0.006),
Ca++ and calculated Ca++ (p<0.001). Negligible correlation was observed between Ca++ and serum protein. Positive correlation was observed between CaT and calculated Ca++, TP and albumin. Findings indicate that Ca++ levels are independent of serum protein status. With scrupulous sampling, Ca++ may be a better parameter than presently used CaT for assessing calcium status in serum. 相似文献
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Many layered superlattice materials intrinsically possess large Seebeck coefficient and low lattice thermal conductivity, but poor electrical conductivity because of the interlayer transport barrier for charges, which has become a stumbling block for achieving high thermoelectric performance. Herein, taking BiCuSeO superlattice as an example, it is demonstrated that efficient interlayer charge release can increase carrier concentration, thereby activating multiple Fermi pockets through Bi/Cu dual vacancies and Pb codoping. Experimental results reveal that the extrinsic charges, which are introduced by Pb and initially trapped in the charge-reservoir [Bi2O2]2+ sublayers, are effectively released into [Cu2Se2]2− sublayers via the channels bridged by Bi/Cu dual vacancies. This efficient interlayer charge release endows dual-vacancy- and Pb-codoped BiCuSeO with increased carrier concentration and electrical conductivity. Moreover, with increasing carrier concentration, the Fermi level is pushed down, activating multiple converged valence bands, which helps to maintain a relatively high Seebeck coefficient and yield an enhanced power factor. As a result, a high ZT value of ∼1.4 is achieved at 823 K in codoped Bi0.90Pb0.06Cu0.96SeO, which is superior to that of pristine BiCuSeO and solely doped samples. The present findings provide prospective insights into the exploration of high-performance thermoelectric materials and the underlying transport physics. 相似文献
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The effect of DL α-lipoic acid, a potent antioxidant was studied in relation to certain erythrocyte membrane parameters in
calcium oxalate stone forming rats. Induction of calcium oxalate lithiasis was done by feeding a diet containing 3% w/w sodium
glycollate. Erythrocyte membrane (Na+, K+)-ATPase showed a significant decrease in stone formers whereas (Ca2+)-ATPase showed a significant increase. Lipoic acid administration brought about an elevation in the activity of (Ca2+)-ATPase. Changes in membrane (Mg2+)-ATPase was minimal. Membrane cholesterol and phospholipids were found raised significantly in lithogenic rats. The changes
may be attributed to enhanced lipid peroxidative mechanisms and altered serum lipid profile observed in this group. Treatment
with lipoic acid reduced membrane cholesterol levels. Phospholipids were also decreased moderately. The above observations
suggest that lipoic acid administration to calculogenic rats reduces the erythrocyte strucutral changes observed in this condition. 相似文献
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Guillaume Mottet Karla Perez-Toralla Ezgi Tulukcuoglu Francois-Clement Bidard Jean-Yves Pierga Irena Draskovic Arturo Londono-Vallejo Stephanie Descroix Laurent Malaquin Jean Louis Viovy 《Biomicrofluidics》2014,8(2)
We present a low cost microfluidic chip integrating 3D micro-chambers for the capture and the
analysis of cells. This device has a simple design and a small footprint. It allows the
implementation of standard biological protocols in a chip format with low volume consumption. The
manufacturing process relies on hot-embossing of cyclo olefin copolymer, allowing the development of
a low cost and robust device. A 3D design of microchannels was used to induce high flow velocity
contrasts in the device and provide a selective immobilization. In narrow distribution channels, the
liquid velocity induces a shear stress that overcomes adhesion forces and prevents cell
immobilization or clogging. In large 3D chambers, the liquid velocity drops down below the threshold
for cell attachment. The devices can be operated in a large range of input pressures and can even be
handled manually using simple syringe or micropipette. Even at high flow injection rates, the 3D
structures protect the captured cell from shear stress. To validate the performances of our device,
we implemented immuno-fluorescence labeling and Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization
(FISH) analysis on cancer cell lines and on a patient pleural effusion sample. FISH is a Food and
Drug Administration approved cancer diagnostic technique that provides quantitative information
about gene and chromosome aberration at the single cell level. It is usually considered as a long
and fastidious test in medical diagnosis. This process can be easily implanted in our platform, and
high resolution fluorescence imaging can be performed with reduced time and computer intensiveness.
These results demonstrate the potential of this chip as a low cost, robust, and versatile tool
adapted to complex and demanding protocols for medical diagnosis. 相似文献
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The physiology of vascular endothelial cells is strongly affected by fluid shear stress on their surface. In this study, a microfluidic assay was employed to analyze the alignment of actin filaments in endothelial cells in response to shear stress. When cells were cultured in microfluidic channels and subjected to shear stress, the alignment of filaments in the channel direction was significantly higher than in static cultures. By adding inhibitory drugs, the roles of several signaling proteins in the process of alignment were determined. Thus, it is shown how microfluidic technology can be employed to provide a mechanistic insight into cell physiology. 相似文献
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伊犁谷地灰钙土和风沙土剖面特性及生态建设意义 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
西部的生态环境安全关系到国家的生态安全。研究土壤特性及其垂直分布,能对区域生态环境建设和可持续发展提供重要的理论基础和指导。灰钙土与风沙土是新疆伊犁谷地的两种主要土壤类型。本文在对新疆伊犁谷地实地考察基础上,运用42个灰钙土剖面和12个风沙土剖面自然发生层各层的土壤样品测试数据—土壤有机质、pH值、电导率、总盐、八大阴阳离子,研究了灰钙土和风沙土土壤特性的垂直分布,并进行了比较;在此基础上提出区域生态建设中土壤利用和保护的建议。研究表明,伊犁河谷的不同土壤,其土壤特性的垂直分布和变化具有一致性和差异性。一致性体现在有机质和K＋的含量随土壤深度增加而减少,pH值、CO32-、Mg2＋和Na＋的含量随土壤深度增加而增加。差异性体现在两类土壤的有机质、pH值、电导率和总盐在数量上不同。此外,两类土壤的电导率、总盐及SO42-,Cl-,HCO3-,Ca2＋的含量随土壤深度发生变化的趋势不同。 相似文献
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R. Baskar N. Saravanan P. Varalakshmi 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》1995,10(2):98-102
The influence of Crataeva nurvala bark decoction was studied in calcium oxalate stone forming rats, in relation to oxalate
metabolism in liver. The activities of the major oxalate synthesizing enzymes in liver namely, glycollate oxidase (GAO) and
lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were significantly increased in the calculogenic group. Bark decoction treatment lowered the liver
GAO activity considerably. Transport ATPases (Na+, K+ and Ca2+-ATPases) and alkaline phosphatase were enhanced in rats fed calculi producing diet, while the activities of acid phosphatase,
inorganic pyrophosphatase and aminotransferases were slightly reduced. Bark decoction administration produced a marginal decrease
in Na+, K+-ATPase and increase in aspartate aminotransferase activities, without significantly altering other enzyme activities. The
decrease in liver GAO activity seen during bark decoction treatment, with concomitant decrease in kidney oxalate level, may
prove beneficial as a prophylactic measure in preventing stone recurrence. 相似文献
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Xue-Yan Wang Christian Fillafer Clara Pichl Stephanie Deinhammer Renate Hofer-Warbinek Michael Wirth Franz Gabor 《Biomicrofluidics》2013,7(4)
Microfluidic devices have emerged as important tools for experimental physiology. They allow to study the effects of hydrodynamic flow on physiological and pathophysiological processes, e.g., in the circulatory system of the body. Such dynamic in vitro test systems are essential in order to address fundamental problems in drug delivery and targeted imaging, such as the binding of particles to cells under flow. In the present work an acoustically driven microfluidic platform is presented in which four miniature flow channels can be operated in parallel at distinct flow velocities with only slight inter-experimental variations. The device can accommodate various channel architectures and is fully compatible with cell culture as well as microscopy. Moreover, the flow channels can be readily separated from the surface acoustic wave pumps and subsequently channel-associated luminescence, absorbance, and/or fluorescence can be determined with a standard microplate reader. In order to create artificial blood vessels, different coatings were evaluated for the cultivation of endothelial cells in the microchannels. It was found that 0.01% fibronectin is the most suitable coating for growth of endothelial monolayers. Finally, the microfluidic system was used to study the binding of 1 μm polystyrene microspheres to three different types of endothelial cell monolayers (HUVEC, HUVECtert, HMEC-1) at different average shear rates. It demonstrated that average shear rates between 0.5 s−1 and 2.25 s−1 exert no significant effect on cytoadhesion of particles to all three types of endothelial monolayers. In conclusion, the multichannel microfluidic platform is a promising device to study the impact of hydrodynamic forces on cell physiology and binding of drug carriers to endothelium. 相似文献
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Ca++ was not found to be essential for the activation of the latent elastase in normal lenses. However, the activities increased 70–100% in human, bovine, sheep and goat lenses at a concentration of 5.0×10?3M of CaCl2. On the other hand, in cataractous human lenses, Ca++ inhibited the process of activation. The activation process however, seems to be a divalent metal ion dependent process since ethylene diamine tetra acetate (2.0×10?3M) blocked the activation of the elastase-like enzyme in both normal and cataractous lenses. p-Hydroxy mercuribenzoate (10?4M) and benzamidine (1.65×10?2M) also blocked the activation process, indicating that a trypsin-like enzyme requiring sulfhydryl groups, is involved in the activation of latent elastase. 相似文献
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Gerald Rosen 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》1976,301(3):307-312
In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the existence of temporally periodic “dissipative structure” solutions in cases of weak diffusion with the reaction rate terms dominant in a generic system of reaction-diffusion equations ?ci/?t = Di?2ci+Qi(c), where the enumerator index i runs 1 to n, ci = ci(x, t) denotes the concentration or density of the ith participating molecular or biological species, Di is the diffusivity constant for the ith species and Qi(c), an algebraic function of the n-tuple c = (c1,\3., cn), expresses the local rate of production of the ith species due to chemical reactions or biological interactions. 相似文献
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Leble V Lima R Dias R Fernandes C Ishikawa T Imai Y Yamaguchi T 《Biomicrofluidics》2011,5(4):44120-4412015
In microcirculation, red blood cells (RBCs) flowing through bifurcations may deform considerably due to combination of different phenomena that happen at the micro-scale level, such as: attraction effect, high shear, and extensional stress, all of which may influence the rheological properties and flow behavior of blood. Thus, it is important to investigate in detail the behavior of blood flow occurring at both bifurcations and confluences. In the present paper, by using a micro-PTV system, we investigated the variations of velocity profiles of two working fluids flowing through diverging and converging bifurcations, human red blood cells suspended in dextran 40 with about 14% of hematocrit level (14 Hct) and pure water seeded with fluorescent trace particles. All the measurements were performed in the center plane of rectangular microchannels using a constant flow rate of about 3.0 × 10−12 m3/s. Moreover, the experimental data was compared with numerical results obtained for Newtonian incompressible fluid. The behavior of RBCs was asymmetric at the divergent and convergent side of the geometry, whereas the velocities of tracer particles suspended in pure water were symmetric and well described by numerical simulation. The formation of a red cell-depleted zone immediately downstream of the apex of the converging bifurcation was observed and its effect on velocity profiles of RBCs flow has been investigated. Conversely, a cell-depleted region was not formed around the apex of the diverging bifurcation and as a result the adhesion of RBCs to the wall surface was enhanced in this region. 相似文献
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The multivariable approach to the synthesis of networks composed of a finite number of uniform lossless transmission lines, commensurable or incommensurable, and lumped passive elements is verified by showing that the multivariable rational matrix, W(λ0,λ1, .. ,λn) is bounded real in (n + 1) complex variables if and only if W is bounded real in p after substituting, λ0 = α0p + β0 and λi = tanh (αip + βi) for λi (1?i?n) where all the α's and β's are nonnegative and arbitrary, except for being not simultaneously zero in like indexed pairs. Consequences of this result are discussed. 相似文献
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We present a straightforward microfluidics system to achieve step-by-step reaction sequences in a diffusion-controlled manner in quasi two-dimensional micro-confinements. We demonstrate the hierarchical self-organization of actin (actin monomers—entangled networks of filaments—networks of bundles) in a reversible fashion by tuning the Mg2+ ion concentration in the system. We show that actin can form networks of bundles in the presence of Mg2+ without any cross-linking proteins. The properties of these networks are influenced by the confinement geometry. In square microchambers we predominantly find rectangular networks, whereas triangular meshes are predominantly found in circular chambers. 相似文献
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Atherosclerotic lesions occur non-randomly at vascular niches in bends and bifurcations where fluid flow can be characterized as "disturbed" (low shear stress with both forward and retrograde flow). Endothelial cells (ECs) at these locations experience significantly lower average shear stress without change in the levels of pressure or strain, which affects the local balance in mechanical stresses. Common in vitro models of atherosclerosis focus primarily on shear stress without accounting for pressure and strain loading. To overcome this limitation, we used our microfluidic endothelial cell culture model (ECCM) to achieve accurate replication of pressure, strain, and shear stress waveforms associated with both normal flow seen in straight sections of arteries and disturbed flow seen in the abdominal aorta in the infrarenal segment at the wall distal to the inferior mesenteric artery (IMA), which is associated with high incidence of atherosclerotic lesion formation. Human aortic endothelial cells (HAECs) were cultured within the ECCM under both normal and disturbed flow and evaluated for cell shape, cytoskeletal alignment, endothelial barrier function, and inflammation using immunofluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry. Results clearly demonstrate quantifiable differences between cells cultured under disturbed flow conditions, which are cuboidal with short and randomly oriented actin microfilaments and show intermittent expression of β-Catenin and cells cultured under normal flow. However, in the absence of pro-inflammatory stimulation, the levels of expression of activation markers: intra cellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1), and vascular endothelial cell growth factor - receptor 2 (VEGF-R2) known to be involved in the initiation of plaque formation were only slightly higher in HAECs cultured under disturbed flow in comparison to cells cultured under normal flow. 相似文献