A passive pump-assisted microfluidic assay for quantifying endothelial wound healing in response to fluid shear stress

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There as an urgent need to quantify the endothelial wound-healing process in response to fluid shear stress to improve the biological and clinical understanding of healing mechanisms, which is of great importance for preventing healing impairment, chronic wounds, and postoperative in-stent restenosis. However, current experimental platforms not only require expensive, cumbersome, and powered pumping devices (to, e.g., generate cell scratches and load shear stress stimulation) but also lack quantitative controls for quantitative analysis. In this paper, a passive pump-assisted microfluidic assay is developed to quantify endothelial wound healing in response to fluid shear stress. Our assay consists of passive constant-flow pumps based on the siphon principle and a three-inlet microfluidic chip for cell wound-healing experiments. We also propose a method for quantitatively adjusting cell scratch size by controlling trypsin flow. Both numerical simulations and fluorescein experiments validate the effectiveness of this method. Moreover, we use the designed microfluidic assay to successfully generate cell scratches, load a 12-h shear stress of 5 dyn/cm2 to the cells, and observe wound healing. The results indicate that the healing of a cell scratch is significantly accelerated under the stimulation of shear stress. In conclusion, our passive pump-assisted microfluidic assay shows versatility, applicability, and the potential for quantifying endothelial wound healing in response to fluid shear stress.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

Enthalten in:

Electrophoresis - 43(2022), 21-22 vom: 21. Nov., Seite 2195-2205

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yang, Yunong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yongjiang [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Miao [VerfasserIn]
Xue, Chundong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bo [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yanxia [VerfasserIn]
Qin, Kairong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Endothelial wound healing
Journal Article
Microfluidics
Passive pump
Quantitative control of cell scratch size
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Shear stress

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Date Completed 18.11.2022

Date Revised 15.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/elps.202200104

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344191087