A dielectrophoresis-based microfluidic system having double-sided optimized 3D electrodes for label-free cancer cell separation with preserving cell viability.

Autor: Varmazyari V; Electrical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran., Habibiyan H; Energy Engineering and Physics Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. habibiyan@aut.ac.ir., Ghafoorifard H; Electrical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran., Ebrahimi M; Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Sciences Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, ACECR, Tehran, Iran., Ghafouri-Fard S; Department of Medical Genetics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2022 Jul 15; Vol. 12 (1), pp. 12100. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 15.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-16286-0
Abstrakt: Early detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in a patient's blood is essential to accurate prognosis and effective cancer treatment monitoring. The methods used to detect and separate CTCs should have a high recovery rate and ensure cells viability for post-processing operations, such as cell culture and genetic analysis. In this paper, a novel dielectrophoresis (DEP)-based microfluidic system is presented for separating MDA-MB-231 cancer cells from various subtypes of WBCs with the practical cell viability approach. Three configurations for the sidewall electrodes are investigated to evaluate the separation performance. The simulation results based on the finite-element method show that semi-circular electrodes have the best performance with a recovery rate of nearly 95% under the same operational and geometric conditions. In this configuration, the maximum applied electric field (1.11 × 10 5  V/m) to separate MDA-MB-231 is lower than the threshold value for cell electroporation. Also, the Joule heating study in this configuration shows that the cells are not damaged in the fluid temperature gradient (equal to 1 K). We hope that such a complete and step-by-step design is suitable to achieve DEP-based applicable cell separation biochips.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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