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Electroporation and Viability Monitoring Chip for Lung Cancer Cells in Single Channel with Multiple Electric Field Zones (다수의 전기장 분포가 생성되는 단일 미세유로를 이용한 폐암세포 전기천공 및 활성도 분석칩)

  • Kim, Min-Ji;Kim, Tae-Yoon;Cho, Young-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.36 no.9
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    • pp.901-905
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    • 2012
  • We present an electroporation and viability monitoring chip for lung cancer cells in a single channel with multiple electric field zones. Previous electroporation chips utilized multiple microchannels or electrodes to form multiple electric fields, thus resulting in complex structures. However, the present chip can generate multiple electric fields in a single stepwise microchannel between a pair of electrodes, thus achieving the analysis of both cell electroporation and viability with a simple structure. We demonstrate that the electric field of 0.4 kV/cm results in a maximum percentage of $51.4{\pm}3.0%$ and $26.6{\pm}0.7%$ of viable and electroporated human lung cancer cells, H23 and A549, respectively. The present chip has potential for use in integrated cell chips for transfection studies.

Development of Detachable PDMS/Glass PCR-Chip and It's Application to Detection of Male Infertility (분리식 PDMS/유리 중합효소연쇄반응칩 개발 및 유전적 남성불임 검사에의 응용)

  • Ju, Jin-Kyoung;Hwang, Seung-Young;Ahn, Yoo-Min
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.371-377
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    • 2008
  • Our precedent study has reported glass-PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) based biochip for the gene PCR (polymerase chain reaction). To prevent the contamination of bio sample, the once used biochip must not be used repeatedly. However, the fabrication cost of microheater and microsensor of the biochip was not cheap to use it as a disposable chip. This paper proposes new PCR-chip where the glass substrate integrated with the microheater and microsensor is detachable from the reaction chamber where the sample is injected. That makes it possible to reuse the glass substrate repeatedly. The performance of the proposed detachable PCR-chip was compared with that of the precedent monolithic PCR-chip. The results showed that the SRY (sex determining Y chromosome) gene PCR was successfully performed in the detachable chip compared with the monolithic chip. However, the more efforts to improve the efficiency of surface treatment of PDMS chip are needed to increase the possibility of applying the detachable chip to the detecting of male infertility.

High Throughput Screening on Angiogenesis Inhibitor and Promoter of Medicinal Plants using a Protein Microarray Chip

  • In, Dong-Su;Lee, Min-Su;Bang, Kyong-Hwan;Kim, Ok-Tae;Hyun, Dong-Yun;Ahn, Young-Sup;Cha, Seon-Woo;Seong, Nak-Sul;Kim, Eung-Youn;Shin, Yoo-Soo;Kang, In-Cheol
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.89-94
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    • 2007
  • The effects of angiogenesis inhibitor from the extract libraries of Korean and Chinese medicinal plants were investigated using a protein microarray chip. Protein chip was constructed by immobilization of integrin ${\alpha}_5{\beta}_1$ on protein chip base plates and employed far screening active extracts that inhibit the integrin-fibronectin interaction from the extract libraries. The 100 extracts of medicinal plants were obtained from extract bank of National Institute of Crop Science, RDA. The 14 extracts among 100 extract libraries were shown efficient inhibition activity for the interaction between integrin-fibronectin. The medicinal plants of 14 extracts were Vitex negundo var. incisa (Lam.) C.B. Clarke, Epimedium koreanum Nakai, Cedrela sinensis A. Juss, Ipomea aquatica Forsk, Schisandra chinensis Baill, Pulsatilla koreana Nakai, Paeonia lactiflora Pall. var.hortensis Makino, Oenothera odorata, Allium chinense, Allium victorialis var. platyphyllum MAKINO, Polygonatum odoratum Druce var. pluriflorum Ohwi, Hosta lancifolia, Agrimonia pilosa L. var. japonica Nakai and Potentilla chinensis SER. The Paeonia lactiflora, Oenothera, and Agrimonia pilosa from these 14 extracts libraries were shown strong inhibition activity of integrin ${\alpha}_5{\beta}_1$.

cDNA Microarray Analysis of Phytophthora Resistance Related Genes Isolated from Pepper

  • Kim, Hyounjoung;Lee, Mi-Yeon;Kim, Ukjo;Lee, Sanghyeob;Park, Soon-Ho;Her, Nam-Han;Lee, Jing-Ha;Yang, Seung-Gyun;Harn, Chee-Hark
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Pathology Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.67.1-67
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    • 2003
  • Phytophthora blight is a devastating disease of pepper and occurs almost anywhere peppers are grown. Phytophthora blight is caused by Phytophthora capsici and this pathogen can infect every part of the plant by moving inoculum in the soil, by infecting water on surface, by aerial dispersal to sporulating lesions. Management of Phytophthora blight currently relies on cultural practices, crop rotation, and use of selective fungicides. Since these treatments are a short-term management, a classical breeding for development of resistant pepper against the Phytophthora is an alternative. So far some of the resistant cultivars have been on the market, but those are limited regionally and commercially. Therefore, ultimately an elite line resistant against this disease should be developed, if possible, by biotechnology. We have set out a series of work recently in order to develop Phytophthora resistant pepper cultivar. For the first time, the cDNA microarray analysis was peformed using an EST chip that holds around 5000 pepper EST clones to identify genes responsive to Phytophthora infection. Total RNA samples were obtained from Capsicum annuum PI201234 after inoculating P. capsici to roots and soil and exposed to the chip. .Around 900 EST clones were up-regulated and down-regulated depending on the two RNA sample tissues, leaf and root. From those, we have found 55 transcription factors that may be involved in gene regulation of the disease defense mechanism. Further and in detail information will be provided in the poster.

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