Cell Seeding Technology for Microarray-Based Quantitative Human Primary Skeletal Muscle Cell Analysis

Pipetting techniques play a crucial role in obtaining reproducible and reliable results, especially when seeding cells on small target areas, such as on microarrays, biochips or microfabricated cell culture systems. For very rare cells, such as human primary skeletal muscle cells (skMCs), manual (freehand) cell seeding techniques invariably result in nonuniform cell spreading and heterogeneous cell densities, giving rise to undesirable variations in myogenesis and differentiation. To prevent such technique-dependent variation, we have designed and fabricated a simple, low-cost pipet guidance device (PGD), and holder that works with hand-held pipettes. This work validates the accuracy and reproducibility of the PGD platform and compares its effectiveness with manual and robotic seeding techniques. The PGD system ensures reproducibility of cell seeding, comparable to that of more expensive robotic dispensing systems, resulting in a high degree of cell uniformity and homogeneous cell densities, while also enabling cell community studies. As compared to freehand pipetting, PGD-assisted seeding of C2C12 mouse myoblasts showed 5.3 times more myotube formation and likewise myotubes derived from PGD-seeded human primary skMCs were 3.6 times thicker and 2.2 times longer. These results show that this novel, yet simple PGD-assisted pipetting technique provides precise cell seeding on small targets, ensuring reproducible and reliable high-throughput cell assays.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:91

Enthalten in:

Analytical chemistry - 91(2019), 22 vom: 19. Nov., Seite 14214-14219

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shin, Hyun Young [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Seung Joon [VerfasserIn]
Seo, Hyung Woo [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Min Young [VerfasserIn]
Intisar, Aseer [VerfasserIn]
Yea, Kyungmoo [VerfasserIn]
Cho, Sung Chun [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Yun-Il [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Young Zoon [VerfasserIn]
Gurel, Ogan [VerfasserIn]
van Noort, Danny [VerfasserIn]
Park, Sang Chul [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Minseok S [VerfasserIn]

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 07.10.2020

Date Revised 07.10.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03722

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM302379339