| Literature DB >> 25809245 |
Di Chen1, Yubing Sun2, Cheri X Deng3, Jianping Fu4.
Abstract
Dissociation-induced apoptosis of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) hampers their large-scale culture. Herein we leveraged the mechanosensitivity of hESCs and employed, to our knowledge, a novel technique, acoustic tweezing cytometry (ATC), for subcellular mechanical stimulation of disassociated single hESCs to improve their survival. By acoustically actuating integrin-bound microbubbles (MBs) to live cells, ATC increased the survival rate and cloning efficiency of hESCs by threefold. A positive correlation was observed between the increased hESC survival rate and total accumulative displacement of integrin-anchored MBs during ATC stimulation. ATC may serve as a promising biocompatible tool to improve hESC culture.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25809245 PMCID: PMC4375556 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.01.033
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033