ReviewBiomicrofluidics2017
Advances in microfluidic devices made from thermoplastics used in cell biology and analyses.
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50 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Integrating Low-Voltage Microfluidics With On-Chip Electrospray Ionization for Miniaturized Protein Analysis.Small methods · 2026Review
- From single cell analysis to 3D micro physiological systems: microfluidic tools integrating cancer cell targets for delineating natural killer cell biology.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026Review
- Microfluidics for Blood Disorders and Hematological Disease Monitoring and Modeling.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Female Reproductive Tract Organ-on-Chips: Modeling Barrier Function and Drug Transport.Pharmaceutics · 2026Review
- High-Throughput Toxicity Screening withEnvironmental science & technology · 2026Review
- Advanced microfluidic techniques for the preparation of solid lipid nanoparticles: Innovations and biomedical applications.International journal of pharmaceutics: X · 2025Review
- Applications of microfluidic chip technology in microvascular thrombosis research.Mikrochimica acta · 2025Review
- 3D bioprinting of collagen-based high-resolution internally perfusable scaffolds for engineering fully biologic tissue systems.Science advances · 2025Article
- From Basic to Breakthroughs: The Journey of Microfluidic Devices in Hydrogel Droplet Generation.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Prototyping in Polymethylpentene to Enable Oxygen-Permeable On-a-Chip Cell Culture and Organ-on-a-Chip Devices Suitable for Microscopy.Micromachines · 2024Article
- Ensuring food safety: Microfluidic-based approaches for the detection of food contaminants.Analytical science advances · 2024Review
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- Rapid prototyping of PMMA-based microfluidic spheroid-on-a-chip models using micromilling and vapour-assisted thermal bonding.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Establishing a Zebrafish Model for Borrelia burgdorferi Infection Using Immersion and Microinjection Methods.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Dielectrophoretic profiling of erythrocytes to study the impacts of metabolic stress, temperature, and storage duration utilizing a point-and-planar microdevice.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cancer-on-chip: a 3D model for the study of the tumor microenvironment.Journal of biological engineering · 2023Review
- Selective expansion of target cells using the Enrich TROVO platform.BioTechniques · 2023Article
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3 authors.
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Abstract
Silicon and glass were the main fabrication materials of microfluidic devices, however, plastics are on the rise in the past few years. Thermoplastic materials have recently been used to fabricate microfluidic platforms to perform experiments on cellular studies or environmental monitoring, with low cost disposable devices. This review describes the present state of the development and applications of microfluidic systems used in cell biology and analyses since the year 2000. Cultivation, separation/isolation, detection and analysis, and reaction studies are extensively discussed, considering only microorganisms (bacteria, yeast, fungi, zebra fish, etc.) and mammalian cell related studies in the microfluidic platforms. The advantages/disadvantages, fabrication methods, dimensions, and the purpose of creating the desired system are explained in detail. An important conclusion of this review is that these microfluidic platforms are still open for research and development, and solutions need to be found for each case separately.
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