دورية أكاديمية

Microfluidic-driven viral infection on cell cultures: Theoretical and experimental study

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العنوان: Microfluidic-driven viral infection on cell cultures: Theoretical and experimental study
المؤلفون: Cimetta, Elisa, Franzoso, Mauro, Trevisan, Marta, Serena, Elena, Zambon, Alessandro, Giulitti, Stefano, Barzon, Luisa, Elvassore, Nicola
المصدر: Biomicrofluidics ; volume 6, issue 2 ; ISSN 1932-1058
بيانات النشر: AIP Publishing
سنة النشر: 2012
الوصف: Advanced cell culture systems creating a controlled and predictable microenvironment together with computational modeling may be useful tools to optimize the efficiency of cell infections. In this paper, we will present a phenomenological study of a virus-host infection system, and the development of a multilayered microfluidic platform used to accurately tune the virus delivery from a diffusive-limited regime to a convective-dominated regime. Mathematical models predicted the convective-diffusive regimes developed within the system itself and determined the dominating mass transport phenomena. Adenoviral vectors carrying the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) transgene were used at different multiplicities of infection (MOI) to infect multiple cell types, both in standard static and in perfused conditions. Our results validate the mathematical models and demonstrate how the infection processes through perfusion via microfluidic platform led to an enhancement of adenoviral infection efficiency even at low MOIs. This was particularly evident at the longer time points, since the establishment of steady-state condition guaranteed a constant viral concentration close to cells, thus strengthening the efficiency of infection. Finally, we introduced the concept of effective MOI, a more appropriate variable for microfluidic infections that considers the number of adenoviruses in solution per cell at a certain time.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1063/1.4723853
DOI: 10.1063/1.4723853/14589832/024127_1_online.pdf
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4723853Test
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.50F0F11E
قاعدة البيانات: BASE