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ArticleMicromachines2021

Microfluidic Bioreactor Made of Cyclo-Olefin Polymer for Observing On-Chip Platelet Production.

Hiroki Kumon, Shinya Sakuma, Sou Nakamura, Hisataka Maruyama, Koji Eto, Fumihito Arai

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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 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Laboratory Assessment and Clinical Outlook forAnnals of laboratory medicine · 2026
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  2. Advances in Microfluidic Cochlea-On-A-Chip.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Hiroki KumonDepartment of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-0108-1231
Shinya SakumaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-4145-7264
Sou NakamuraCenter for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5601-9777
Hisataka MaruyamaDepartment of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8902-883X
Koji EtoCenter for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Fumihito AraiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2508-1615
Kyoto University · JPNagoya University · JPKyushu University · JPThe University of Tokyo · JP

Funding

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development JP17bk0104039Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development JP17bm0104001Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development JP17bm0504008Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 19J23654Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 21H05047
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We previously proposed a microfluidic bioreactor with glass-Si-glass layers to evaluate the effect of the fluid force on platelet (PLT) production and fabricated a three-dimensional (3D) microchannel by combining grayscale photolithography and deep reactive ion etching. However, a challenge remains in observing the detailed process of PLT production owing to the low visibility of the microfluidic bioreactor. In this paper, we present a transparent microfluidic bioreactor made of cyclo-olefin polymer (COP) with which to observe the process of platelet-like particle (PLP) production under a bright-field, which allows us to obtain image data at a high sampling rate. We succeeded in fabricating the COP microfluidic bioreactor with a 3D microchannel. We investigated the bonding strength of COP-COP layers and confirmed the effectiveness of the microfluidic bioreactor. Results of on-chip PLP production using immortalized megakaryocyte cell lines (imMKCLs) derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells show that the average total number of produced PLPs per imMKCL was 17.6 PLPs/imMKCL, which is comparable to that of our previous glass-Si-glass microfluidic bioreactor (17.4 PLPs/imMKCL). We succeeded in observing PLP production under a bright-field using the presented microfluidic bioreactor and confirmed that PLP fragmented in a narrow area of proplatelet-like protrusions.

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bioreactorcyclo-olefin polymerfabricationmicrofluidic chipplateletthree-dimensional microchannel

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PMID34683304
PMCPMC8540318
OpenAlexW3207578039

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