Development of microfluidic impedance cytometry enabling the quantification of specific membrane capacitance and cytoplasm conductivity from 100,000 single cells

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 138-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Zhao ◽  
Ke Wang ◽  
Deyong Chen ◽  
Beiyuan Fan ◽  
Ying Xu ◽  
...  
Sensors ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 2763-2773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Zhao ◽  
Deyong Chen ◽  
Yana Luo ◽  
Feng Chen ◽  
Xiaoting Zhao ◽  
...  

The Analyst ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 144 (3) ◽  
pp. 1008-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Yang Zhao ◽  
Deyong Chen ◽  
Ke Wang ◽  
Yuanchen Wei ◽  
...  

This paper presents a crossing constriction channel-based microfluidic system for high-throughput characterization of specific membrane capacitance (Csm) and cytoplasm conductivity (σcy) of single cells.


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (137) ◽  
pp. 20170717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Wang ◽  
Chun-Chieh Chang ◽  
Tzu-Keng Chiu ◽  
Xiaoting Zhao ◽  
Deyong Chen ◽  
...  

As label-free biomarkers, the electrical properties of single cells are widely used for cell type classification and cellular status evaluation. However, as intrinsic cellular electrical markers, previously reported membrane capacitances (e.g. specific membrane capacitance C spec and total membrane capacitance C mem ) of white blood cells were derived from tens of single cells, lacking statistical significance due to low cell numbers. In this study, white blood cells were first separated into granulocytes and lymphocytes by density gradient centrifugation and were then aspirated through a microfluidic constriction channel to characterize both C spec and C mem . Thousands of granulocytes ( n cell = 3327) and lymphocytes ( n cell = 3302) from 10 healthy blood donors were characterized, resulting in C spec values of 1.95 ± 0.22 µF cm −2 versus 2.39 ± 0.39 µF cm −2 and C mem values of 6.81 ± 1.09 pF versus 4.63 ± 0.57 pF. Statistically significant differences between granulocytes and lymphocytes were located for both C spec and C mem . In addition, neural network-based pattern recognition was used to classify white blood cells, producing successful classification rates of 78.1% for C spec and 91.3% for C mem , respectively. These results indicate that as intrinsic bioelectrical markers, membrane capacitances may contribute to the classification of white blood cells.


2000 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 314-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc J. Gentet ◽  
Greg J. Stuart ◽  
John D. Clements

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