Abstract
The use of microfluidic technology in single-cell assay has shown potential in biomedical applications like protein quantification, immune response monitoring, and drug discovery. Because of the details of information that can be obtained at single-cell resolution, the single-cell assay has been applied to tackle challenging issues such as cancer treatment. Information like the levels of protein expression, cellular heterogeneity, and unique behaviors within subsets are very important in the biomedical field. For a single-cell assay system, a high-throughput platform that can do on-demand media exchange and real-time monitoring is advantageous in single-cell screening and profiling. In this work, a high-throughput valve-based device is presented, its use in single-cell assay, particularly in protein quantification and surface-marker analysis, and its potential application to immune response monitoring and drug discovery are laid down in detail.
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Briones, J.C., Espulgar, W.V., Koyama, S., Takamatsu, H., Saito, M., Tamiya, E. (2023). A High-Throughput Single-Cell Assay on a Valve-Based Microfluidic Platform Applied to Protein Quantification, Immune Response Monitoring, and Drug Discovery. In: Li, P.C., Wu, A.R. (eds) Single-Cell Assays. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2689. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3323-6_10
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