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Himali Somaweera1, Akif Ibraguimov2, Dimitri Pappas1
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA.
Abstract:
Microfluidic spatial and temporal gradient generators have played an important role in many biological assays such as in the analysis of wound healing, inflammation, and cancer metastasis. Chemical gradient systems can also be applied to other fields such as drug design, chemical synthesis, chemotaxis, etc. Microfluidic systems are particularly amenable to gradient formation, as the length scales used in chips enable fluid processes that cannot be conducted in bulk scale. In this review we discuss new microfluidic devices for gradient generation and applications of those systems in cell analysis.
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