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Cardiac Muscle Cell-based Actuator and Self-stabilizing Biorobot - Part 2
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Demonstration of a bio-microactuator powered by vascular smooth muscle cells coupled to polymer micropillars
Yo Tanaka1, Kae Sato, Tatsuya Shimizu
1Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
Lab on a Chip
|December 21, 2007
Abstract:
We have demonstrated the working principle of a bio-microactuator using smooth muscle cells (SMCs) by driving micropillars coupled to cultured SMCs and controlled pillar displacements by chemical stimuli; the generated driving force was estimated to be over 1.1 microN.
