Lab-on-a-CD Platform for Generating Multicellular Three-dimensional Spheroids
- Authors
- Kim, Daehan; Lee, Gi-Hun; Park, Jiheum; Lee, Jung Chan; Park, Joong Yull
- Issue Date
- Nov-2019
- Publisher
- JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
- Keywords
- Bioengineering; Issue 153; 3D spheroid; centrifugal microfluidic systems; lab-on-a-CD; centrifugal force; hypergravity; cell aggregation
- Citation
- JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS, v.2019, no.153
- Journal Title
- JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
- Volume
- 2019
- Number
- 153
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/37416
- DOI
- 10.3791/60399
- ISSN
- 1940-087X
- Abstract
- A three-dimensional spheroid cell culture can obtain more useful results in cell experiments because it can better simulate cell microenvironments of the living body than two-dimensional cell culture. In this study, we fabricated an electrical motor-driven lab-on-a-CD (compact disc) platform, called a centrifugal microfluidic-based spheroid (CMS) culture system, to create three-dimensional (3D) cell spheroids implementing high centrifugal force. This device can vary rotation speeds to generate gravity conditions from 1 x g to 521 x g. The CMS system is 6 cm in diameter, has one hundred 400 mu m microwells, and is made by molding with polydimethylsiloxane in a polycarbonate mold premade by a computer numerical control machine. A barrier wall at the channel entrance of the CMS system uses centrifugal force to spread cells evenly inside the chip. At the end of the channel, there is a slide region that allows the cells to enter the microwells. As a demonstration, spheroids were generated by monoculture and coculture of human adipose-derived stem cells and human lung fibroblasts under high gravity conditions using the system. The CMS system used a simple operation scheme to produce coculture spheroids of various structures of concentric, Janus, and sandwich. The CMS system will be useful in cell biology and tissue engineering studies that require spheroids and organoid culture of single or multiple cell types.
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