title: High Throughput Label Free Measurement of Cancer Cell Adhesion Kinetics Under Hemodynamic Flow.
abstract: The kinetics of receptor-mediated cell adhesion to extracellular matrix and adherent cell monolayers plays a key role in many physiological and pathological processes including cancer metastasis. Within this process the presence of fluidic shear forces is a key regulator of binding equilibrium and kinetics of cell adhesion. Current techniques to examine the kinetics of cell adhesion are either performed in the absence of flow or are low throughput, limiting their application to pharmacological compound screening or the high throughput investigation of biological mechanisms. We developed a high throughput flow device that applies flow in a multi-well format and interfaced this system with electric cell-substrate impedance sensing (ECIS) system to allow label free detection of cell adhesion. We demonstrate that this combined system is capable of making real time measurements of cancer cell adhesion to extracellular matrix and immobilized platelets. In addition, we examined the dependence of the kinetics of binding of cancer cells on the level of shear stress and in the presence of small molecule inhibitors to adhesion-related pathways. This versatile system is broadly adaptable to the high throughput study of cell adhesion kinetics for many applications including drug screening and the investigation of the mechanisms of cancer metastasis.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas at Austin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX USA.
authors.forename: Adrianne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spencer
authors.affiliation: University of Texas at Austin, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX USA.|Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX USA.|Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), University of Texas, Austin, TX USA.
authors.forename: Aaron B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Baker
mesh_terms: D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D033081:Shear Strength
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