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Microfluidics for cell-cell interactions: A review
Received date: 31 Oct 2015
Accepted date: 01 Dec 2015
Published date: 29 Feb 2016
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Microfluidic chip has been applied in various biological fields owing to its low-consumption of reagents, high throughput, fluidic controllability and integrity. The well-designed microscale intermediary is also ideal for the study of cell biology. Particularly, microfluidic chip is helpful for better understanding cell-cell interactions. A general survey of recent publications would help to generalize the designs of the co-culture chips with different features. With ingenious and combinational utilization, the chips facilitate the implementation of some special co-culture models that are highly concerned in a different spatial and temporal way.
Key words: microfluidic chip; co-culture; cell-cell interactions; review
Rui Li , Xuefei Lv , Xingjian Zhang , Omer Saeed , Yulin Deng . Microfluidics for cell-cell interactions: A review[J]. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering, 2016 , 10(1) : 90 -98 . DOI: 10.1007/s11705-015-1550-2
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