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ArticleScientific reports2017

Soft electroporation for delivering molecules into tightly adherent mammalian cells through 3D hollow nanoelectrodes.

Valeria Caprettini, Andrea Cerea, Giovanni Melle, Laura Lovato, Rosario Capozza, Jian-An Huang, Francesco Tantussi, Michele Dipalo, Francesco De Angelis

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Valeria CaprettiniIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, 16163, Italy.
Andrea CereaIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, 16163, Italy.
Giovanni MelleIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, 16163, Italy.
Laura LovatoIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, 16163, Italy.
Rosario CapozzaIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, 16163, Italy.
Jian-An HuangIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, 16163, Italy.
Francesco TantussiIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, 16163, Italy.
Michele DipaloIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, 16163, Italy. michele.dipalo@iit.it.ORCID 0000-0002-1823-8231
Francesco De AngelisIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, 16163, Italy. francesco.deangelis@iit.it.
Italian Institute of Technology · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electroporation of in-vitro cultured cells is widely used in biological and medical areas to deliver molecules of interest inside cells. Since very high electric fields are required to electroporate the plasma membrane, depending on the geometry of the electrodes the required voltages can be very high and often critical to cell viability. Furthermore, in traditional electroporation configuration based on planar electrodes there is no a priori certain feedback about which cell has been targeted and delivered and the addition of fluorophores may be needed to gain this information. In this study we present a nanofabricated platform able to perform intracellular delivery of membrane-impermeable molecules by opening transient nanopores into the lipid membrane of adherent cells with high spatial precision and with the application of low voltages (1.5-2 V). This result is obtained by exploiting the tight seal that the cells present with 3D fluidic hollow gold-coated nanostructures that act as nanochannels and nanoelectrodes at the same time. The final soft-electroporation platform provides an accessible approach for controlled and selective drug delivery on ordered arrangements of cells.

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ElectrodesAnimalsCell AdhesionCell LineCell MembraneCell SurvivalCytological TechniquesDrug Delivery SystemsElectrochemotherapyElectroporationMiceNanopores

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PMID28819252
PMCPMC5561120
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