NDLI: Quick and easy microfabrication of T-shaped cantilevers to generate arrays of microtissues

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Author	Kalman, Beît Picart, Catherine Boudou, Thomas
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Over the past decade, a major effort was made to miniaturize engineered tissues, as to further improve the throughput of such approach. Most existing methods for generating microtissues thus rely on T-shaped cantilevers made by soft lithography and based on the use of negative SU-8 photoresist. However, photopatterning T-shaped microstructures with these negative photoresists is fastidious and time-consuming. Here we introduce a novel method to quickly generate T-shaped cantilevers dedicated to generation of cellular microtissues, based on the use of positive photoresist. With only two layers of photoresist and one photomask, we were able to fabricate arrays of microwells in less than 3 h, each containing two T-shaped cantilevers presenting either a rectangular or a circular geometry. As a proof of concept, these arrays were then replicated in poly(dimethylsiloxane) and microtissues composed of NIH 3T3 fibroblasts encapsulated in collagen I were generated, while the two cantilevers simultaneously constrain and report forces generated by the microtissues. Immunostainings showed longitudinally aligned and elongated fibroblasts over the whole microtissue after 8 days of culture. The method described here opens the potential to quick prototyping platforms for high-throughput, low-volume screening applications.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	5
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13872176
Journal	Biomedical Microdevices
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728781
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2016-05-11
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Photolithography Positive photoresist PDMS Microtissues Biomedical Engineering Biophysics and Biological Physics Nanotechnology Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Molecular Biology Biomedical Engineering

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