An integrated microfludic device for culturing and screening of Giardia lamblia

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• 作者：Guo-Xia Zheng ; Xue-Mei Zhang ; Yu-Suo Yang ; Shu-Rui Zeng ; Jun-Feng Wei ; Yun-Hua Wang ; Ya-Jie Li
• 关键词：Giardia ; Microfluidics ; Screening ; Culture
• 刊名：Experimental Parasitology
• 出版年：February, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：137
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-7
• 全文大小：1551 K

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In vitro culturing of trophozoites was important for research of Giardia lamblia (G. lamblia), especially in discovery of anti-Giardia agents. The current culture methods mainly suffer from lab-intension or the obstacle in standardizing the gas condition. Thus, it could benefit from a more streamlined and integrated approach. Microfluidics offers a way to accomplish this goal. Here we presented an integrated microfluidic device for culturing and screening of G. lamblia. The device consisted of a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microchip with an aerobic culture system. In the microchip, the functionality of integrated concentration gradient generator (CGG) with micro-scale cell culture enables dose-response experiment to be performed in a simple and reagent-saving way. The diffusion-based culture chambers allowed growing G. lamblia at the in vivo like environment. It notable that the highly air permeable material of parallel chambers maintain uniform anaerobic environment in different chambers easily. Using this device, G. lamblia were successfully cultured and stressed on-chip. In all cases, a dose-related inhibitory response was detected. The application of this device for these purposes represents the first step in developing a completely integrated microfluidic platform for high-throughput screening and might be expanded to other assays based on in vitro culture of G. lamblia with further tests.