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ArticleScientific reports2018

Electrofusion of single cells in picoliter droplets.

Rogier M Schoeman, Wesley T E van den Beld, Evelien W M Kemna, Floor Wolbers, Jan C T Eijkel, Albert van den Berg

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Rogier M SchoemanColorado School of Mines, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Golden, 80401, Colorado, United States. rmschoeman@mines.edu.
Wesley T E van den BeldUniversity of Twente, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology and MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, BIOS Lab on a Chip group, 7500AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Evelien W M KemnaUniversity of Twente, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology and MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, BIOS Lab on a Chip group, 7500AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Floor WolbersSaxion University of Applied Sciences, Life Science Engineering and Design, PO Box 70.000, 7500KB, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Jan C T EijkelUniversity of Twente, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology and MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, BIOS Lab on a Chip group, 7500AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Albert van den BergUniversity of Twente, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology and MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, BIOS Lab on a Chip group, 7500AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a microfluidic chip that enables electrofusion of cells in microdroplets, with exchange of nuclear components. It is shown, to our knowledge for the first time, electrofusion of two HL60 cells, inside a microdroplet. This is the crucial intermediate step for controlled hybridoma formation where a B cell is electrofused with a myeloma cell. We use a microfluidic device consisting of a microchannel structure in PDMS bonded to a glass substrate through which droplets with two differently stained HL60 cells are transported. An array of six recessed platinum electrode pairs is used for electrofusion. When applying six voltage pulses of 2-3 V, the membrane electrical field is about 1 MV/cm for 1 ms. This results in electrofusion of these cells with a fusion yield of around 5%. The operation with individual cell pairs, the appreciable efficiency and the potential to operate in high-throughput (up to 500 cells sec

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B-LymphocytesCell FusionHL-60 CellsHumansHybridomasMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesSingle-Cell Analysis

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PMID29487332
PMCPMC5829161

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