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ArticleMicromachines2021

Micropatterning of Substrates for the Culture of Cell Networks by Stencil-Assisted Additive Nanofabrication.

Anita Previdi, Claudio Piazzoni, Francesca Borghi, Carsten Schulte, Leandro Lorenzelli, Flavio Giacomozzi, Alessio Bucciarelli, Antonio Malgaroli, Jacopo Lamanna, Andrea Moro and 4 more

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Article in Micromachines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Brain-like hardware, do we need it?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Anita PrevidiCIMaINa and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3789-8638
Claudio PiazzoniCIMaINa and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Francesca BorghiCIMaINa and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6980-4910
Carsten SchulteCIMaINa and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7554-5342
Leandro LorenzelliCenter for Materials and Microsystems (CMM), Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Via Sommarive 18, 38123 Trento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4624-170X
Flavio GiacomozziCenter for Materials and Microsystems (CMM), Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Via Sommarive 18, 38123 Trento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6009-0103
Alessio BucciarelliCenter for Materials and Microsystems (CMM), Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Via Sommarive 18, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Antonio MalgaroliCenter for Behavioral Neuroscience and Communication (BNC), Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milano, Italy.
Jacopo LamannaCenter for Behavioral Neuroscience and Communication (BNC), Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milano, Italy.
Andrea MoroCenter for Behavioral Neuroscience and Communication (BNC), Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milano, Italy.
Gabriella RacchettiCenter for Behavioral Neuroscience and Communication (BNC), Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0062-8300
Alessandro PodestàCIMaINa and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Cristina LenardiCIMaINa and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Paolo MilaniCIMaINa and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9325-4963

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fabrication of in vitro neuronal cell networks where cells are chemically or electrically connected to form functional circuits with useful properties is of great interest. Standard cell culture substrates provide ensembles of cells that scarcely reproduce physiological structures since their spatial organization and connectivity cannot be controlled. Supersonic Cluster Beam Deposition (SCBD) has been used as an effective additive method for the large-scale fabrication of interfaces with extracellular matrix-mimicking surface nanotopography and reproducible morphological properties for cell culture. Due to the high collimation of SCBD, it is possible to exploit stencil masks for the fabrication of patterned films and reproduce features as small as tens of micrometers. Here, we present a protocol to fabricate micropatterned cell culture substrates based on the deposition of nanostructured cluster-assembled zirconia films by stencil-assisted SCBD. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated by the fabrication of micrometric patterns able to confine primary astrocytes. Calcium waves propagating in the astrocyte networks are shown.

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astrocytescell confinementmicropatternsnanofabricationnanostructured zirconiaprimary cell networks

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PMID33477416
PMCPMC7829752

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