Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 135(5) 417-422 2023年5月
Technologies for efficiently expanding Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, the primary host cells for antibody production, are of growing industrial importance. Various processes for the use of microcarriers in CHO suspension cultures have been dev...
Mai Takagi   Masumi Yamada   Rie Utoh   Minoru Seki   
Lab on a Chip 23(9) 2257-2267 2023年5月
Spheroid formation assisted by microengineered chambers is a versatile approach for morphology-controlled three-dimensional (3D) cell cultivation with physiological relevance to human tissues. However, the limitation in diffusion-based oxygen/nutr...
Numerous attempts have been made to develop efficient systems to purify trace amounts of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood samples. However, current technologies are limited by complexities in device fabrication, system design, and process...
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 133(3) 265-272 2022年3月
Numerous attempts have been made to organize isolated primary hepatocytes into functional three-dimensional (3D) constructs, but technologies to introduce extracellular matrix (ECM) components into such assemblies have not been fully developed. He...
21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2017 177-178 2020年
A new process is presented to fabricate basement membrane-mimetic cell co-culture platforms using microfabricated PDMS stencil plates. An aqueous solution of extracellular matrices (ECM) was introduced into the through-holes of the microstencil pl...
21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2017 1145-1146 2020年
Here we present a new approach to rapid formation of collagen gel tubes using microfluidic devices made of phosphate particle-embedding PDMS (PP-PDMS). An acidic solution of collagen, introduced into the PP-PDMS channel, was rapidly transformed in...
MicroTAS 2020 - 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 1155-1156 2020年
Here we present an efficient microfluidic system for selectively capturing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood samples, employing parallelized structures of cell trappers. The thin configuration of the trapper (depth of several micrometers) ...