Microfluidic Device for Examining Directional Sensing in Dendritic Cell Chemotaxis
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Keywords
Chemotaxis, dendritic cells, BioMEMs, migration, CCL-19
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793984411000475
Abstract
Dendritic cell chemotaxis is an important process involved in the acquisition of adaptive immunity. Despite several studies, our understanding of this process remains limited. One of the reasons for this is the lack of experimental models that give us real-time information on dendritic cell locomotion. Here, using tools in microfluidics, we have fabricated a microdevice that allows us to monitor dendritic cell migration in a chemokine gradient in real time. We successfully observed the migration of dendritic cells derived from a myeloid leukemia cell line (MUTZ-3) in a soluble chemokine (CCL-19) gradient. Our experiments suggest the utility of microdevices in monitoring dendritic cell chemotaxis in real time and getting important information regarding migration speeds and distances previously not available from conventional chemotaxis assays. This kind of data is useful for building mechanistic mathematical models of dendritic cell chemotaxis that may give us novel insights to the process of dendritic cell chemotaxis.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Nano LIFE, v. 2, issue 2, art. 1250011
Scholar Commons Citation
Koria, Piyush; Bhushan, Abhinav; Irimia, Daniel; and Yarmush, Martin L., "Microfluidic Device for Examining Directional Sensing in Dendritic Cell Chemotaxis" (2012). Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications. 19.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ech_facpub/19
