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ArticleBiomicrofluidics2021

Creating wounds in cell monolayers using micro-jets.

Cristian Soitu, Mirela Panea, Alfonso A Castrejón-Pita, Peter R Cook, Edmond J Walsh

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Article in Biomicrofluidics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 authors.

Cristian SoituOsney Thermofluids Institute, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3126-1708
Mirela PaneaNeurosciences Group, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DS, United Kingdom.
Alfonso A Castrejón-PitaDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, United Kingdom.
Peter R CookThe Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RE, United Kingdom.
Edmond J WalshOsney Thermofluids Institute, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0ES, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5264-1561

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_15029
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many wound-healing assays are used in cell biology and biomedicine; they are often labor intensive and/or require specialized and costly equipment. We describe a contactless method to create wounds with any imaginable 2D pattern in cell monolayers using the micro-jets of either media or an immiscible and biocompatible fluorocarbon (i.e., FC40). We also combine this with another method that allows automation and multiplexing using standard Petri dishes. A dish is filled with a thin film of media overlaid with FC40, and the two liquids are reshaped into an array of microchambers within minutes. Each chamber in such a grid is isolated from others by the fluid walls of FC40. Cells are now added, allowed to grow into a monolayer, and wounds are created using the microjets; then, healing is monitored by microscopy. As arrays of chambers can be made using media and Petri dishes familiar to biologists, and as dishes fit seamlessly into their incubators, microscopes, and workflows, we anticipate that this assay will find wide application in wound healing.

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PMID33598064
PMCPMC7872715

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