An integrated microfluidic device for single cell trapping and osmotic behavior investigation of mouse oocytes.

Cryobiology

Department of Electronic Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, Anhui, PR China; School of Biomedical Engineering, Anhui Medical University, 81 Meishan Road, Hefei 230032, Anhui, PR China. Electronic address:

Published: February 2020

Transport properties of oocytes play an important role in the optimization of their cryopreservation. However, there are still no systematical investigations on oocyte transport properties from the viewpoint of single-cell trapping and high precision perfusion, especially with the powerful microfluidic approach. To this end, we developed an easy-to-fabricate and easy-to-use microfluidic chip along with automatic single cell trapping capability to investigate the oocyte membrane transport properties. The experimental results indicate that the device is available and reliable. We further performed a comparative study of the oocyte membrane transport properties between single and multi-step CPA addition protocols and confirmed that the transport property parameters measured by single-step osmotic shift could not be used for prediction of the osmotic responses of oocytes in multi-step CPA addition. This study provides a powerful tool for investigation of oocyte osmotic responses.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2019.09.016DOI Listing

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