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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Biocompatible Cantilevers for Mechanical Characterization of Zebrafish Embryos using Image Analysis.

Yuji Tomizawa, Krishna Dixit, David Daggett, Kazunori Hoshino

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. 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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4 authors.

Yuji TomizawaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. yuji.tomizawa@uconn.edu.
Krishna DixitDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. krishna.dixit@uconn.edu.
David DaggettDepartment of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. david.daggett@uconn.edu.
Kazunori HoshinoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. hoshino@engr.uconn.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7080-7825

Funding

National Science Foundation 1809047, 1555986
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We have developed a force sensing system to continuously evaluate the mechanical elasticity of micrometer-scale (a few hundred micrometers to a millimeter) live tissues. The sensing is achieved by measuring the deflection of force sensitive cantilevers through microscopic image analysis, which does not require electrical strain gauges. Cantilevers made of biocompatible polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) were actuated by a piezoelectric actuator and functioned as a pair of chopsticks to measure the stiffness of the specimen. The dimensions of the cantilevers were easily adjusted to match the size, range, and stiffness of the zebrafish samples. In this paper, we demonstrated the versatility of this technique by measuring the mechanical elasticity of zebrafish embryos at different stages of development. The stiffness of zebrafish embryos was measured once per hour for 9 h. From the experimental results, we successfully quantified the stiffness change of zebrafish embryos during embryonic development.

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Elastic ModulusAnimalsBiocompatible MaterialsDimethylpolysiloxanesEmbryonic DevelopmentEmbryo, NonmammalianFinite Element AnalysisOptical TweezersZebrafishbaysilonBiocompatible MaterialsDimethylpolysiloxanesbiosolid mechanicsforce sensorsoft lithographystiffness analysiszebrafish embryo

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PMCPMC6479902

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