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ArticleLab on a chip2012

Heterotypic cell pair co-culturing on patterned microarrays.

Edward J Felton, Craig R Copeland, Christopher S Chen, Daniel H Reich

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Article in Lab on a chip, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Edward J FeltonDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Craig R Copeland
Christopher S Chen
Daniel H Reich
Johns Hopkins University · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Magnetically patterned co-cultures for cancer studiesR21CA128622 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI REICH, DANIEL H · 2007 to 2008
$340k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA128622NCI NIH HHS R21-CA128622
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a pair-wise co-culturing technique that creates large numbers of heterotypic cell pairs in patterned arrays. Lithographic patterning produces arrays with thousands of traps, each designed to accommodate only two cells and confine them at these sites for co-culturing. Two variants are introduced: a random seeding method that sediments a mixture of two cell types onto the array, and an approach that incorporates ferromagnetic thin films into the arrays and attracts cells that have been attached to ferromagnetic nanowires to the array sites through dipole interactions. The array technique includes the utilization of custom image analysis software that extracts data from multi-channel fluorescence images and records information about the cells in every trap, enabling the acquisition of accurate, high-statistics data. The applicability of the technique was demonstrated in experiments examining proliferation rates in pairs of bovine pulmonary artery endothelial and smooth muscle cells. Results demonstrated that heterotypic interactions favored smooth muscle cell proliferation while disfavoring endothelial cell proliferation. This is one example of a variety of cell-cell interactions that could be probed with this method.

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Coculture TechniquesTissue Array AnalysisAnimalsCattleCell LineCell ProliferationEndothelial CellsHumansMagneticsMiceMicroscopy, FluorescenceMyocytes, Smooth MuscleNIH 3T3 CellsSoftware

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PMID22739471
PMCPMC3444241
OpenAlexW2039257626

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