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ArticleNanofabrication2015

Evaporative edge lithography of a liposomal drug microarray for cell migration assays.

Nicholas Vafai, Troy W Lowry, Korey A Wilson, Michael W Davidson, Steven Lenhert

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Article in Nanofabrication, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicholas VafaiDepartment of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4370, USA.
Troy W LowryDepartment of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4350, USA.
Korey A WilsonDepartment of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4370, USA.
Michael W DavidsonNational High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310-3706, USA.
Steven LenhertDepartment of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4370, USA.
Florida State University · USNational High Magnetic Field Laboratory · US

Funding

High-throughput lipophilic drug screening microarraysR01GM107172 · NIGMS · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI LENHERT, STEVEN · 2013 to 2017
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107172
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid multilayer microarrays are a promising approach to miniaturize laboratory procedures by taking advantage of the microscopic compartmentalization capabilities of lipids. Here, we demonstrate a new method to pattern lipid multilayers on surfaces based on solvent evaporation along the edge where a stencil contacts a surface called evaporative edge lithography (EEL). As an example of an application of this process, we use EEL to make microarrays suitable for a cell-based migration assay. Currently existing cell migration assays require a separate compartment for each drug which is dissolved at a single concentration in solution. An advantage of the lipid multilayer microarray assay is that multiple compounds can be tested on the same surface. We demonstrate this by testing the effect of two different lipophilic drugs, Taxol and Brefeldin A, on collective cell migration into an unpopulated area. This particular assay should be scalable to test of 2000 different lipophilic compounds or dosages on a standard microtiter plate area, or if adapted for individual cell migration, it would allow for high-throughput screening of more than 50,000 compounds per plate.

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cell migrationhigh-throughput screeninglipidlithographymicroarraystencil

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PMID27617264
PMCPMC5015892
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