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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-7-5
pubmed:abstractText
Cell migration under chemoattractant is an important biological step in cancer metastasis that causes the spread of malignant tumor cells. Porous polymeric materials are widely used to mimic the extracellular matrix (ECM) environment for applications such as three dimensional (3D) cell culturing and tissue engineering. In this paper we report a novel 3D cell culture device based on porous polymeric material to study cancer migration. We fabricated a porous channel on a polymeric chip using a selective ultrasonic foaming method. We demonstrate that a chemical concentration gradient could be established through the porous channel due to the slow diffusion process. We show that significant cell migration could be observed through the porous channel within 1-2 weeks of cell culturing when metastatic M4A4-GFP breast cancer cells were induced by 20% fetal bovine serum (FBS).We also developed a mathematical model to evaluate the diffusivity and concentration gradient through the fabricated porous structure.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1572-8781
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
753-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-8-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
A porous 3D cell culture micro device for cell migration study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2600, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural