An integrated microfluidic platform for size-selective single-cell trapping of monocytes from blood.

Biomicrofluidics

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92967, USA.

Published: September 2018

Reliable separation and isolation of target single cells from bodily fluids with high purity is of great significance for an accurate and quantitative understanding of the cellular heterogeneity. Here, we describe a fully integrated single-blood-cell analysis platform capable of size-selective cell separation from a population containing a wide distribution of sizes such as diluted blood sample and highly efficient entrapment of single monocytes. The spiked single U937 cells (human monocyte cell line) are separated in sequence by two different-sized microfilters for removing large cell clumps, white blood cells, and red blood cells and then discriminated by dielectrophoretic force and isolated individually by downstream single-cell trapping arrays. When 2% hematocrit blood cells with a final ratio of 1:1000 U937 cells were introduced under the flow rate of 0.2 ml/h, 400 U937 cells were trapped sequentially and deterministically within 40 s with single-cell occupancy of up to 85%. As a proof-of-concept, we also demonstrated single monocyte isolation from diluted blood using the integrated microfluidic device. This size-selective, label-free, and live-cell enrichment microfluidic single blood-cell isolation platform for the processing of cancer and blood cells has a myriad of applications in areas such as single-cell genetic analysis, stem cell biology, point-of-care diagnostics, and cancer diagnostics.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6145860PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5049149DOI Listing

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