Lambert, E.; Manczak, R.; Barthout, E.; Saada, S.; Porcù, E.; Maule, F.; Bessette, B.; Viola, G.; Persano, L.; Dalmay, C.; et al. Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Based on UHF-Dielectrophoresis for Stemness Phenotype Characterization and Discrimination among Glioblastoma Cells. Biosensors 2021, 11, 388, doi:10.3390/bios11100388.
Lambert, E.; Manczak, R.; Barthout, E.; Saada, S.; Porcù, E.; Maule, F.; Bessette, B.; Viola, G.; Persano, L.; Dalmay, C.; et al. Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Based on UHF-Dielectrophoresis for Stemness Phenotype Characterization and Discrimination among Glioblastoma Cells. Biosensors 2021, 11, 388, doi:10.3390/bios11100388.
Lambert, E.; Manczak, R.; Barthout, E.; Saada, S.; Porcù, E.; Maule, F.; Bessette, B.; Viola, G.; Persano, L.; Dalmay, C.; et al. Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Based on UHF-Dielectrophoresis for Stemness Phenotype Characterization and Discrimination among Glioblastoma Cells. Biosensors 2021, 11, 388, doi:10.3390/bios11100388.
Lambert, E.; Manczak, R.; Barthout, E.; Saada, S.; Porcù, E.; Maule, F.; Bessette, B.; Viola, G.; Persano, L.; Dalmay, C.; et al. Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Based on UHF-Dielectrophoresis for Stemness Phenotype Characterization and Discrimination among Glioblastoma Cells. Biosensors 2021, 11, 388, doi:10.3390/bios11100388.
Abstract
Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most aggressive solid tumors, particularly due to the presence of cancer stem cells (CSCs). Today the characterization of this type of cells with an efficient, fast and low-cost method remains an issue. Hence, we have developed a microfluidic lab-on-a-chip based on dielectrophoresis (DEP) single cell electro-manipulation to measure the two crossover frequencies: fx01in low frequency range (below 500 kHz) and fx02in Ultra High Frequency range (UHF, above 50 MHz). First, in vitro conditions were investigated. U87-MG cell lines were cultured in different conditions in order to induce an undifferentiated phenotype. Then, ex vivo GBM cells from patients’ primary cell culture, were passed through the developed microfluidic system and characterized in order to reflect clinical conditions. This article demonstrates that the usual exploitation of low frequency range DEP does not allow the discrimination of the undifferentiated from the differentiated phenotypes of GBM cells. However, the presented study highlights the use of UHF-DEP as a relevant discriminant parameter. The proposed microfluidic lab-on-a-chip is able to follow the kinetic of U87-MG phenotype transformation in a CSC enrichment medium and their cancer stem cells phenotype acquirement.
Keywords
high frequency dielectrophoresis; glioblastoma cells; single cell manipulation; microfluidic point-of-care device; cancer stem cells
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Oncology and Oncogenics
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