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A Multi-compartment CNS Neuron-glia Co-culture Microfluidic Platform
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We developed a novel multi-compartment neuron co-culture microsystem platform for in vitro CNS axon-glia interaction research. The platform is capable of conducting up to six independent experiments in parallel and was fabricated using a newly developed macro/micro hybrid fabrication method.
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Harvesting, Embedding, and Culturing Dorsal Root Ganglia in Multi-compartment Devices to Study Peripheral Neuronal Features
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2024
This protocol provides a technique to harvest and culture explanted dorsal root ganglion (DRG) from adult Sprague Dawley rats in a multi-compartment (MC) device.
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A Multi-Parametric Islet Perifusion System within a Microfluidic Perifusion Device
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2010
A microfluidic islet perifusion device was developed for the assessment of dynamic insulin secretion of multiple islets and simultaneous fluorescence imaging of calcium influx and mitochondrial potential changes.
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Multi-step Variable Height Photolithography for Valved Multilayer Microfluidic Devices
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2017
Multilayer microfluidic devices often involve the fabrication of master molds with complex geometries for functionality. This article presents a complete protocol for multi-step photolithography with valves and variable height features tunable to any application. As a demonstration, we fabricate a microfluidic droplet generator capable of producing hydrogel beads.
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Compartment Models: Two-Compartment Model
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2025
The two-compartment model divides the body into central and peripheral compartments to account for varying blood perfusion rates among organs and tissues, affecting drug distribution. The central compartment includes blood and highly perfused tissues with rapid drug distribution, while the peripheral compartment contains tissues with slower drug distribution. After a single IV bolus dose, the drug concentration is high in plasma and low in tissues. The drug distribution between compartments...
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Membranes, microchannels, porous interfaces, and valves regulate how fluids, cells, or biomaterials interact across separated chambers. Their arrangement can restrict or permit transport while preserving distinct local environments. This control allows researchers to study communication or material exchange under defined conditions rather than exposing every component to one uniform culture environment.
Controlled chemical gradients and flow conditions create differences between compartments that can influence cell behavior and interactions. Because the device maintains defined environments, researchers can examine responses to spatially separated signals or controlled fluid movement. This helps connect changes observed at the cellular or molecular level with responses that emerge across a tissue-like system.
Modular design allows compartments and their interfaces to be arranged for specific experimental purposes. Researchers can establish distinct cell-specific environments while coordinating selected interactions between them. This flexibility improves experimental control and supports comparisons among different compartment arrangements, helping isolate mechanisms that may be difficult to distinguish in conventional culture systems.
By placing cell populations or biomaterials in separate but interacting chambers, the platform can help examine how one environment influences another. Researchers can relate controlled compartment conditions to cell communication and tissue-level responses. This approach is useful for connecting molecular mechanisms with broader biological outcomes while keeping the participating environments physically distinguishable.
A design begins by determining which fluids, cells, or biomaterials require separate environments and how they should interact. Researchers then select suitable barriers or connecting structures, such as membranes, microchannels, porous interfaces, or valves, to regulate transport. The device is configured to establish the desired chemical gradients, flow conditions, and cell-specific environments for the study.
These platforms are useful when a study requires controlled interaction among separated biological or material environments. Applications described for them include co-culture systems, organ-on-chip models, tissue engineering, drug testing, and investigations of cell communication. They are particularly valuable when conventional culture systems cannot isolate interacting conditions or reproduce the spatial relationships under examination.
In organ-on-chip and tissue-engineering studies, separate chambers can provide distinct cell-specific environments while preserving regulated interaction between them. Defined gradients and flow conditions help reproduce selected features of tissue organization that are difficult to establish in conventional culture. The resulting platform can link molecular or cellular behavior with tissue-level responses relevant to engineered models.