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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Reconfigurable Microfluidic Magnetic Valve Arrays: Towards a Radiotherapy-Compatible Spheroid Culture Platform for the Combinatorial Screening of Cancer Therapies.

Alexandre R Brunet, Frédérique Labelle, Philip Wong, Thomas Gervais

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Oncoimmunology Meets Organs-on-Chip.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexandre R BrunetBiomedical Engineering Institute, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, H3T 1J4, Canada. alexandre.r-brunet@polymtl.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-4894-7063
Frédérique LabelleDepartment of Engineering Physics, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, H3T 1J4, Canada. frederique.labelle@polymtl.ca.
Philip WongInstitut du Cancer de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montréal, H3T 1J4, Canada. pwong.kf@gmail.com.
Thomas GervaisBiomedical Engineering Institute, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montreal, H3T 1J4, Canada. thomas.gervais@polymtl.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-2025-9082
Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal · CAPolytechnique Montréal · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We introduce here a microfluidic cell culture platform or spheroid culture chamber array (SCCA) that can synthesize, culture, and enable fluorescence imaging of 3D cell aggregates (typically spheroids) directly on-chip while specifying the flow of reagents in each chamber via the use of an array of passive magnetic valves. The SCCA valves demonstrated sufficient resistance to burst (above 100 mBar), including after receiving radiotherapy (RT) doses of up to 8 Gy combined with standard 37 °C incubation for up to 7 days, enabling the simultaneous synthesis of multiple spheroids from different cell lines on the same array. Our results suggest that SCCA would be an asset in drug discovery processes, seeking to identify combinatorial treatments.

Indexed as

MicrofluidicsCell Culture TechniquesCell Line, TumorHumansNeoplasmsSpheroids, Cellularchemotherapydrug discoverymicrofluidicsradiotherapyspheroidsvalves

Identifiers

PMID28976942
PMCPMC5677148
OpenAlexW2762061960

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