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      Correlation between dielectric property by dielectrophoretic levitation and growth activity of cells exposed to electric field

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          The purpose of this study is to develop a system analyzing cell activity by the dielectrophoresis method. Our previous studies revealed a correlation between the growth activity and dielectric property (Re[ K(ω)]) of mouse hybridoma 3-2H3 cells using dielectrophoretic levitation. Furthermore, it was clarified that the differentiation activity of many stem cells could be evaluated by the Re[ K(ω)] without differentiation induction. In this paper, 3-2H3 cells exposed to an alternating current (AC) electric field or a direct current (DC) electric field were cultivated, and the influence of damage by the electric field on the growth activity of the cells was examined. To evaluate the activity of the cells by measuring the Re[ K(ω)], the correlation between the growth activity and the Re[ K(ω)] of the cells exposed to the electric field was examined. The relations between the cell viability, growth activity, and Re[ K(ω)] in the cells exposed to the AC electric field were obtained. The growth activity of the cells exposed to the AC electric field could be evaluated by the Re[ K(ω)]. Furthermore, it was found that the adverse effects of the electric field on the cell viability and the growth activity were smaller in the AC electric field than the DC electric field.

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          Separation of viable and non-viable yeast using dielectrophoresis.

          Dielectrophoresis, the movement of particles in non-uniform AC electric fields, was used to rapidly separate viable and non-viable yeast cells with good efficiency. Known mixtures of viable and heat-treated cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were separated and selectively isolated using positive and negative dielectrophoretic forces generated by microelectrodes in a small chamber. Good correlations with the initial known relative compositions were obtained by direct microscopic counting of cells at the electrodes after initial dielectrophoretic separation (r = 0.995), from methylene blue staining (r = 0.992) and by optical absorption measurements (r = 0.980) of the effluent after selectively flushing out the viable and non-viable cells from the chamber. Through measurement of cell viability by staining with methylene blue and plate counts, for an initial suspension of approx. 1.4 x 10(7) cells per ml containing 60% non-viable cells, the dielectrophoretically separated non-viable fraction contained 3% viable cells and the viable fraction 8% dead cells. The separation efficiency is increased by dilution of the initial suspension or by repeat operation(s). Cell viability was not affected by the separation procedure.
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            Separation of human breast cancer cells from blood by differential dielectric affinity.

            Electrorotation measurements were used to demonstrate that the dielectric properties of the metastatic human breast cancer cell line MDA231 were significantly different from those of erythrocytes and T lymphocytes. These dielectric differences were exploited to separate the cancer cells from normal blood cells by appropriately balancing the hydrodynamic and dielectrophoretic forces acting on the cells within a dielectric affinity column containing a microelectrode array. The operational criteria for successful particle separation in such a column are analyzed and our findings indicate that the dielectric affinity technique may prove useful in a wide variety of cell separation and characterization applications.
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              Dielectrophoretic spectra of single cells determined by feedback-controlled levitation.

              In this paper we have utilized the principle of dielectrophoresis (DEP) to develop an apparatus to stably levitate single biological cells using a digital feedback control scheme. Using this apparatus, the positive DEP spectra of both Canola plant protoplast and ligament fibroblast cells have been measured over a wide range of frequencies (1 kHz to 50 MHz) and suspending medium conductivities (11-800 muS/cm). The experimental data thus obtained have been interpreted in terms of a simple spherical cell model. Furthermore, utilizing such a model, we have shown that various cellular parameters of interest can be readily obtained from the measured DEP levitation spectrum. Specifically, the effective membrane capacitance of single cells has been determined. Values of 0.47 +/- 0.03 muF/cm2 for Canola protoplasts and 1.52 +/- 0.26 muF/cm2 for ligament fibroblasts thus obtained are consistent with those determined by other existing electrical methods.
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                Contributors
                hakoda@cee.gunma-u.ac.jp
                Journal
                Bioprocess Biosyst Eng
                Bioprocess Biosyst Eng
                Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering
                Springer Berlin Heidelberg (Berlin/Heidelberg )
                1615-7591
                1615-7605
                20 November 2012
                20 November 2012
                2013
                : 36
                : 1219-1227
                Affiliations
                Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Gunma University, 1-5-1 Tenjin Cho, Kiryu, Gunma 376-8515 Japan
                Article
                849
                10.1007/s00449-012-0849-3
                3755225
                23178982
                8d041c40-8b4c-41ff-b9fb-35d26ad43b31
                © The Author(s) 2012
                History
                : 19 June 2012
                : 20 October 2012
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                © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

                Biomedical engineering
                dielectrophoresis,ac electric field,dc electric field,analytical activity

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