Formation of Large Scaffold-Free 3-D Aggregates in a Cell Culture Dish by Ultrasound Standing Wave Trapping.
Mouse myoblasts
Scaffold-free aggregates
Three-dimensional aggregates
Tissue engineering
Ultrasound standing wave trapping
Ultrasound transducer
Journal
Ultrasound in medicine & biology
ISSN: 1879-291X
Titre abrégé: Ultrasound Med Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410553
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2019
05 2019
Historique:
received:
10
03
2018
revised:
25
12
2018
accepted:
15
01
2019
pubmed:
26
2
2019
medline:
26
12
2019
entrez:
26
2
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Cellular aggregates that mimic cell-cell interactions in vitro are essential for biological research. This study introduces a method to form large scaffold-free 3-D aggregates in a clinically ubiquitous cell culture dish using kilohertz-order ultrasound standing wave trapping (USWT). We fabricated an aggregate formation system in which a 60-mm dish was set above a Langevin transducer via water. The transducer was excited at 110.8 kHz, and then C2C12 myoblasts were injected into the dish and trapped at the node position of the standing wave. The diameter and thickness of the formed aggregate were 8 and 2.7 mm, respectively, which are larger than those of aggregates formed previously by USWT. Moreover, we confirmed that >94% of cells constituting the aggregates survived 9 h, and the protein expression of cells was not altered significantly. This method can be applied to form aggregates with high functionality, which contributes to the development of biological research methodology.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30799124
pii: S0301-5629(19)30022-5
doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2019.01.013
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1306-1315Informations de copyright
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