Label-free, high-throughput assay of human dendritic cells from whole-blood samples with microfluidic inertial separation suitable for resource-limited manufacturing

Caffiyar, M.Y. and Lim, K.P. and Kamal Basha, I.H. and Hamid, N.H. and Cheong, S.C. and Wei Ho, E.T. (2020) Label-free, high-throughput assay of human dendritic cells from whole-blood samples with microfluidic inertial separation suitable for resource-limited manufacturing. Micromachines, 11 (5).

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Abstract

Microfluidics technology has not impacted the delivery and accessibility of point-of-care health services, like diagnosing infectious disease, monitoring health or delivering interventions. Most microfluidics prototypes in academic research are not easy to scale-up with industrial-scale fabrication techniques and cannot be operated without complex manipulations of supporting equipment and additives, such as labels or reagents. We propose a label-and reagent-free inertial spiral microfluidic device to separate red blood, white blood and dendritic cells from blood fluid, for applications in health monitoring and immunotherapy. We demonstrate that using larger channel widths, in the range of 200 to 600 μm, allows separation of cells into multiple focused streams, according to different size ranges, and we utilize a novel technique to collect the closely separated focused cell streams, without constricting the channel. Our contribution is a method to adapt spiral inertial microfluidic designs to separate more than two cell types in the same device, which is robust against clogging, simple to operate and suitable for fabrication and deployment in resource-limited populations. When tested on actual human blood cells, 77 of dendritic cells were separated and 80 of cells remained viable after our assay. © 2020 by the authors.

Item Type: Article
Impact Factor: cited By 1
Uncontrolled Keywords: Additives; Blood; Cytology; Diagnosis; Industrial research; Microfluidics; Polymethyl methacrylates; Reagents; Separation; Throughput, Fabrication technique; Health monitoring; High-throughput assays; Human dendritic cells; Inertial microfluidics; Infectious disease; Micro-fluidic devices; Microfluidics technology, Cells
Depositing User: Ms Sharifah Fahimah Saiyed Yeop
Date Deposited: 19 Aug 2021 07:24
Last Modified: 19 Aug 2021 07:24
URI: http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/23348

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