Transmission of dynamic biochemical signals in the shallow microfluidic channel: nonlinear modulation of the pulsatile flow

A controlled quantitative loading of dynamic biochemical signals on cells in vitro is essential for cell dynamic analysis. Microfluidics provides the potential for reproducing and controlling spatio-temporal biochemical signals through the various microfluidic channels. Herein we investigate the tra...

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Published inMicrofluidics and nanofluidics Vol. 22; no. 8; pp. 1 - 13
Main Authors Li, Yong-Jiang, Cao, Tun, Qin, Kai-Rong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.08.2018
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Analytical Chemistry
Biochemistry
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering
Cells
Convection
Dye dispersion
Dynamic analysis
Engineering
Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Flow rates
Flow velocity
Frequency dependence
Frequency modulation
Low pass filters
Mathematical models
Microfluidics
Nanotechnology and Microengineering
Perturbation method
Perturbation methods
Research Paper
Time dependence
Transmission characteristics
Dynamic biochemical signals
Microfluidics
Nonlinear modulation
Low-pass filtering
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Summary:A controlled quantitative loading of dynamic biochemical signals on cells in vitro is essential for cell dynamic analysis. Microfluidics provides the potential for reproducing and controlling spatio-temporal biochemical signals through the various microfluidic channels. Herein we investigate the transmission characteristics of dynamic biochemical signals in pulsatile flows by analytically solving the convection–diffusion equation for the time-dependent Taylor–Aris dispersion with perturbation method. We prove that the transmission of dynamic biochemical signals in pulsatile flows is subject to the two correlate effects: low-pass filtering and nonlinear amplitude–frequency modulation. These two effects are systematically characterized and the influence factors are studied, including the biochemical signal frequency, the pulsatile flow frequency, the transmission distance and the average pulsatile flow rate. We concluded that the balance of multiple factors should be taken into account for better loading biochemical signals on cells cultured in the microfluidic channel.
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ISSN:1613-4982
1613-4990
DOI:10.1007/s10404-018-2097-6