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ArticleBiomicrofluidics2019

Highly integrated microfluidic device for cell pairing, fusion and culture.

Weihua He, Liang Huang, Yongxiang Feng, Fei Liang, Wei Ding, Wenhui Wang

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Article in Biomicrofluidics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Weihua HeState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instrument, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Liang HuangSchool of Instrument Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
Yongxiang FengState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instrument, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Fei LiangState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instrument, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Wei DingState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instrument, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Wenhui WangState Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instrument, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5884-6098
Tsinghua University · CNHefei University of Technology · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we proposed a microfluidic device with compact structures integrating multiple modalities for cell capture, pairing, fusion, and culture. The microfluidic device is composed of upper and lower parts. The lower part configured with electrodes and capture wells is used for cell trapping/pairing/fusion, while the upper part configured with corresponding culture wells is used for cell culture. Dielectrophoresis is used to enable accurate cell trapping and pairing in capture wells. Moreover, the paired cells are fused flexibly by either electrical pulses or polyethylene glycol (PEG) buffer. The fused cells are then transferred to culture wells for on-chip culture simply by flipping the device. Using the device and HeLa cells, we demonstrated pairing efficiency of ∼78% and fusion efficiencies of

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PMCPMC6932852
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