title: Polymeric microfluidic devices exhibiting sufficient capture of cancer cell line for isolation of circulating tumor cells.
abstract: Here, we developed polymeric microfluidic devices for the isolation of circulating tumor cells. The devices, with more than 30,000 microposts in the channel, were produced successfully by a UV light-curing process lasting 3 min. The device surface was coated with anti-epithelial cell adhesion molecule antibody by just contacting the antibody solution, and a flow system including the device was established to send a cell suspension through it. We carried out flow tests for evaluation of the device's ability to capture tumor cells using an esophageal cancer cell line, KYSE220, dispersed in phosphate-buffered saline or mononuclear cell separation from whole blood. After the suspension flowed through the chip, many cells were seen to be captured on the microposts coated with the antibody, whereas there were few cells in the device without the antibody. Owing to the transparency of the device, we could observe the intact and the stained cells captured on the microposts by transmitted light microscopy and phase contrast microscopy, in addition to fluorescent microscopy, which required fluorescence labeling. Cell capture efficiencies (i.e., recovery rates of the flowing cancer cells by capture with the microfluidic device) were measured. The resulting values were 0.88 and 0.95 for cell suspension in phosphate-buffered saline, and 0.85 for the suspension in the mononuclear cell separation, suggesting the sufficiency of this device for the isolation of circulating tumor cells. Therefore, our device may be useful for research and treatments that rely on investigation of circulating tumor cells in the blood of cancer patients.
authors.affiliation: Central Research Laboratories, Toyama Industrial Technology Center, 150 Futagami-cho, Takaoka, Toyama, 933-0981, Japan. ohnaga@itc.pref.toyama.jp.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohnaga
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan.
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shimada
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan.
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moriyama
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kishi
authors.affiliation: Central Research Laboratories, Toyama Industrial Technology Center, 150 Futagami-cho, Takaoka, Toyama, 933-0981, Japan.
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Obata
authors.affiliation: Central Research Laboratories, Toyama Industrial Technology Center, 150 Futagami-cho, Takaoka, Toyama, 933-0981, Japan.
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takata
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okumura
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan.
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan.
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Muraguchi
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsukada
mesh_terms: D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D002469:Cell Separation / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000473:pathology*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers