التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| 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; Jun2012, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p024127-024127-12, 1p, 1 Color Photograph, 1 Diagram, 4 Graphs |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
MICROFLUIDICS, CELL culture, VIRUS diseases, MATHEMATICAL models, GREEN fluorescent protein, TRANSGENES, ADENOVIRUSES |
| مستخلص: |
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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