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IET Syst Biol ; 4(6): 416-27, 2010 Nov.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21073240

RESUMEN

The combination of microfluidic cell trapping devices with ion mobility-mass spectrometry offers the potential for elucidating in real time the dynamic responses of small populations of cells to paracrine signals, changes in metabolite levels and delivery of drugs and toxins. Preliminary experiments examining peptides in methanol and recording the interactions of yeast and Jurkat cells with their superfusate have identified instrumental set-up and control parameters and online desalting procedures. Numerous initial experiments demonstrate and validate this new instrumental platform. Future outlooks and potential applications are addressed, specifically how this instrumentation may be used for fully automated systems biology studies of the significantly interdependent, dynamic internal workings of cellular metabolic and signalling pathways.


Asunto(s)
Biología Celular/instrumentación , Fenómenos Fisiológicos Celulares , Técnicas Analíticas Microfluídicas/métodos , Espectrometría de Masa por Láser de Matriz Asistida de Ionización Desorción/métodos , Separación Celular/instrumentación , Células/química , Células/citología , Humanos , Células Jurkat , Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Biología de Sistemas/métodos
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J Microsc ; 232(1): 1-6, 2008 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19017196

RESUMEN

We report a novel method for obtaining simultaneous images from multiple vantage points of a microscopic specimen using size-matched microscopic mirrors created from anisotropically etched silicon. The resulting pyramidal wells enable bright-field and fluorescent side-view images, and when combined with z-sectioning, provide additional information for 3D reconstructions of the specimen. We have demonstrated the 3D localization and tracking over time of the centrosome of a live Dictyostelium discoideum. The simultaneous acquisition of images from multiple perspectives also provides a five-fold increase in the theoretical collection efficiency of emitted photons, a property which may be useful for low-light imaging modalities such as bioluminescence, or low abundance surface-marker labelling.


Asunto(s)
Microscopía Fluorescente/métodos , Microscopía/métodos , Manejo de Especímenes/métodos , Animales , Dictyostelium/ultraestructura , Imagenología Tridimensional/métodos , Orgánulos/ultraestructura
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Ann Biomed Eng ; 28(8): 1019-27, 2000 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11144663

RESUMEN

A bolus injection of hypertonic NaCl into the pulmonary arterial circulation of an isolated perfused dog lung causes the osmotic movement of water first into, and then out of the capillary. The associated changes in blood constituent concentrations and density are referred to as the osmotic transient (OT). Measurement of the sound conduction velocity of effluent blood during an OT is a highly sensitive way to monitor water movement between the vascular and extravascular spaces. It was our objective to develop a mathematical model that adequately describes this transient change in the sound conduction velocity and evaluate its application under conditions of homogeneous and heterogeneous capillary flow distributions. The model accounts for osmotic water exchange between the capillary and two parallel extravascular compartments, and includes as parameters the osmotic conductances (sigmaK1 ,sigmaK2) of the two compartments. The osmotic conductance parameters incorporate the filtration coefficient for water and reflection coefficient for salt for the two pathways of water exchange. The partition of total extravascular lung water (EVLW) between the two extravascular compartments is a third parameter of the model. The homogeneous model parameter estimates (per gram wet lung weight +/-95% confidence limits) from the best-fit analysis of a typical curve were sigmaK1=2.15 +/-0.07, sigmaK2 = 0.03 + 0.00 [ml h(-1) (mosmol/liter)(-1) g(-1)] and V1 = 23.83+/-0.12 ml, with a coefficient of variation (CV) of 0.08. The heterogeneous parameter estimates for a capillary transit time distribution with mean transit time (MTTc) = 1.72 s, and relative dispersion (RDc) = 0.35 were KI = 2.38+/-0.05, or K2 = 0.03+/-0.00 [ml h(-1) (mosmol/liter)(-1) g(-1)], V1 = 23.91+/-0.08 ml, and CV=0.05. EVLW was 42.1 ml for both models. We conclude that the three-compartment mathematical model adequately describes a typical OT under both homogeneous and heterogeneous blood flow assumptions.


Asunto(s)
Pulmón/metabolismo , Microcirculación/metabolismo , Modelos Biológicos , Ósmosis/fisiología , Agua/metabolismo , Animales , Compartimentos de Líquidos Corporales/fisiología , Simulación por Computador , Perros , Técnicas In Vitro , Pulmón/irrigación sanguínea , Perfusión , Valor Predictivo de las Pruebas , Análisis de Regresión
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