Fundamentals and application of magnetic particles in cell isolation and enrichment: a review

BD Plouffe, SK Murthy, LH Lewis - Reports on Progress in …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic sorting using magnetic beads has become a routine methodology for the
separation of key cell populations from biological suspensions. Due to the inherent ability of …

Microfluidic applications of magnetic particles for biological analysis and catalysis

MAM Gijs, F Lacharme, U Lehmann - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Since the introduction of the concept of Micro Total Analysis System or µTAS in 1990, 1 the
interest in and impact of such devices, also called lab-on-a-chip or miniaturized analysis …

Novel magnetic Fe3O4@ C nanoparticles as adsorbents for removal of organic dyes from aqueous solution

Z Zhang, J Kong - Journal of hazardous materials, 2011 - Elsevier
The magnetic Fe3O4/C core–shell nanoparticles have been synthesized by a simple
strategy and used as adsorbents for removal of organic dyes from aqueous solution. The …

Microfluidic approaches for cancer cell detection, characterization, and separation

J Chen, J Li, Y Sun - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This article reviews the recent developments in microfluidic technologies for in vitro cancer
diagnosis. We summarize the working principles and experimental results of key microfluidic …

EMT-associated heterogeneity in circulating tumor cells: sticky friends on the road to metastasis

A Genna, AM Vanwynsberghe, AV Villard, C Pottier… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal transitions (EMTs) generate hybrid phenotypes with an enhanced
ability to adapt to diverse microenvironments encountered during the metastatic spread …

Magnetic particles: From preparation to lab-on-a-chip, biosensors, microsystems and microfluidics applications

T Jamshaid, ETT Neto, MM Eissa, N Zine… - TrAC Trends in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Magnetic particles are largely used in various applications and particularly in in-vitro
biomedical diagnostic and bionanotechnology. In fact, they have been employed for …

Magnetic force-based microfluidic techniques for cellular and tissue bioengineering

S Yaman, M Anil-Inevi, E Ozcivici… - … in bioengineering and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Live cell manipulation is an important biotechnological tool for cellular and tissue level
bioengineering applications due to its capacity for guiding cells for separation, isolation …

Microfluidic device with integrated microfilter of conical-shaped holes for high efficiency and high purity capture of circulating tumor cells

Y Tang, J Shi, S Li, L Wang, YE Cayre, Y Chen - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Capture of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from peripheral blood of cancer patients has major
implications for metastatic detection and therapy analyses. Here we demonstrated a …

Cell manipulation in microfluidics

H Yun, K Kim, WG Lee - Biofabrication, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent advances in the lab-on-a-chip field in association with nano/microfluidics have been
made for new applications and functionalities to the fields of molecular biology, genetic …

Highly efficient capture and enumeration of low abundance prostate cancer cells using prostate‐specific membrane antigen aptamers immobilized to a polymeric …

U Dharmasiri, S Balamurugan, AA Adams… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate tumor cells over‐express a prostate‐specific membrane antigen (PSMA) that can
be used as a marker to select these cells from highly heterogeneous clinical samples, even …