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Design of a Hybrid Inertial and Magnetophoretic Microfluidic Device for CTCs Separation from Blood
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Nasiri, Rohollah Shamloo, Amir Akbari, Javad |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) isolation from a blood sample plays an important role in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Microfluidics offers a great potential for cancer cell separation from the blood. Among the microfluidic-based methods for CTC separation, the inertial method as a passive method and magnetic method as an active method are two efficient well-established methods. Here, we investigated the combination of these two methods to separate CTCs from a blood sample in a single chip. Firstly, numerical simulations were performed to analyze the fluid flow within the proposed channel, and the particle trajectories within the inertial cell separation unit were investigated to determine/predict the particle trajectories within the inertial channel in the presence of fluid dynamic forces. Then, the designed device was fabricated using the soft-lithography technique. Later, the CTCs were conjugated with magnetic nanoparticles and Ep-CAM antibodies to improve the magnetic susceptibility of the cells in the presence of a magnetic field by using neodymium permanent magnets of 0.51 T. A diluted blood sample containing nanoparticle-conjugated CTCs was injected into the device at different flow rates to analyze its performance. It was found that the flow rate of 1000 µL/min resulted in the highest recovery rate and purity of ~95% and ~93% for CTCs, respectively. |
| Starting Page | 877 |
| e-ISSN | 2072666X |
| DOI | 10.3390/mi12080877 |
| Journal | Micromachines |
| Issue Number | 8 |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-07-26 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Micromachines Analytical Chemistry Microfluidics Cell Separation Ctcs Inertial Magnetophoretic Nanoparticle |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |