ArticleBiomicrofluidics2013
Inducing self-rotation of cells with natural and artificial melanin in a linearly polarized alternating current electric field.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Microfluidic-based electrically driven particle manipulation techniques for biomedical applications.RSC advances · 2025Review
- Surface Acoustic Wave-Enhanced Multi-View Acoustofluidic Rotation Cytometry (MARC) for Pre-Cytopathological Screening.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Distinguishing cells using electro-acoustic spinning.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Accurate and Automatic Extraction of Cell Self-Rotation Speed in an ODEP Field Using an Area Change Algorithm.Micromachines · 2022Article
- Determination of Dielectric Properties of Cells using AC Electrokinetic-based Microfluidic Platform: A Review of Recent Advances.Micromachines · 2020Review
- Optoelectrokinetics-based microfluidic platform for bioapplications: A review of recent advances.Biomicrofluidics · 2019Review
- Accurate Extraction of the Self-Rotational Speed for Cells in an Electrokinetics Force Field by an Image Matching Algorithm.Micromachines · 2017Article
- Measurement of single leukemia cell's density and mass using optically induced electric field in a microfluidics chip.Biomicrofluidics · 2015Article
- Distinctive translational and self-rotational motion of lymphoma cells in an optically induced non-rotational alternating current electric field.Biomicrofluidics · 2015Article
- Comprehensive analysis of human cells motion under an irrotational AC electric field in an electro-microfluidic chip.PloS one · 2014Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The phenomenon of self-rotation observed in naturally and artificially pigmented cells under an applied linearly polarized alternating current (non-rotating) electrical field has been investigated. The repeatable and controllable rotation speeds of the cells were quantified and their dependence on dielectrophoretic parameters such as frequency, voltage, and waveform was studied. Moreover, the rotation behavior of the pigmented cells with different melanin content was compared to quantify the correlation between self-rotation and the presence of melanin. Most importantly, macrophages, which did not originally rotate in the applied non-rotating electric field, began to exhibit self-rotation that was very similar to that of the pigmented cells, after ingesting foreign particles (e.g., synthetic melanin or latex beads). We envision the discovery presented in this paper will enable the development of a rapid, non-intrusive, and automated process to obtain the electrical conductivities and permittivities of cellular membrane and cytoplasm in the near future.
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