Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2019, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (22): 3584-3590.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.1302

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Advantages and application prospects of microfluidic chip technology in cell adhesion research

Zhuan Hang1, Zheng Guoxia2, Wang Yunhua1
  

  1. 1大连大学医学院,辽宁省大连市  116622;2大连大学环境与化学工程学院,辽宁省大连市  116622
  • Received:2019-03-27
  • Contact: Wang Yunhua, Associate professor, Master’s supervisor, School of Medicine, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, Liaoning Province, China
  • About author:Zhuan Hang, Master candidate, School of Medicine, Dalian University, Dalian 116622, Liaoning Province, China
  • Supported by:

    the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81471807 (to WYH), No. 41476085 (to ZGX)

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Cell adhesion affects cell migration, proliferation, and differentiation. It is of extremely vital significance for cell separation and enrichment, tissue engineering and clinical disease research. Microfluidic chips have unique advantages in cell adhesion studies such as miniaturization, integration, high throughput, low energy consumption, and rapid analysis.
OBJECTIVE: To summarize and discuss the latest advances of microfluidic chip technology in cell adhesion research.
METHODS: The first author performed a data retrieval of PubMed and Bailianyun databases to search the articles published during 2008-2018 and addressing cell adhesion and microfluidic chip technology and reviewed the literatures systematically.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: A total of 238 articles were retrieved and 53 articles were included in the final analysis according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. These articles were read, summarized and analyzed. Results showed that the microfluidic chip platform provides new possibilities for in vitro studies of cell adhesion because it exhibits higher throughput, enables precise control of the biological, physical, and chemical factors involved in the construction of in vivo cellular microenvironment, and regulates a series of cellular behaviors including cell adhesion, migration, growth, proliferation, differentiation, cell-cell interactions, and cell-matrix interactions. Microfluidic chip technology has broad application prospects in the dynamic monitoring of cell adhesion process, quantitative measurement of cell adhesion, isolation and enrichment of rare cells, screening of biomedical materials, and research on cell adhesion-related diseases.

Key words: cell adhesion, microfluidic chip technology, cell adhesion, quantitative measurement, cell isolation and enrichment, tissue engineering, biomedical materials, in vitro model reconstruction, drug screening, the National Natural Science Foundation of China

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