Issue 8, 2008
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Lab on a Chip

Tubular gel fabrication and cell encapsulation in laminar flow stream formed by microfabricated nozzle array†

Shinji Sugiura,*ab   Tatsuya Oda,c   Yasuyuki Aoyagi,c   Mitsuo Satake,d   Nobuhiro Ohkohchic  and  Mitsutoshi Nakajimabe  

* Corresponding authors

a Research Center of Advanced Bionics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 5th, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
E-mail: shinji.sugiura@aist.go.jp
Fax: +81-861-6278

b Food Engineering Division, National Food Research Institute, 2-1-12 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

c Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

d Diagnostics Radiology Division, National Cancer Center Hospital East, 6-5-1 Kashiwanoha, Chiba, Kashiwa, Japan

e Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Abstract

We have used a laminar flow stream formed by a microfabricated nozzle array to prepare cell-encapsulated alginate gel micro-tubes, in which cells formed a cylindrical multi-cellular aggregate after cultivation for two weeks.

Graphical abstract: Tubular gel fabrication and cell encapsulation in laminar flow stream formed by microfabricated nozzle array

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B803850C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Mar 2008
Accepted
04 Jun 2008
First published
11 Jun 2008

Lab Chip, 2008,8, 1255-1257

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Tubular gel fabrication and cell encapsulation in laminar flow stream formed by microfabricated nozzle array

S. Sugiura, T. Oda, Y. Aoyagi, M. Satake, N. Ohkohchi and M. Nakajima, Lab Chip, 2008, 8, 1255 DOI: 10.1039/B803850C

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