DIELECTROPHORETIC TRAPS FOR EFFICIENT BEAD AND CELL TRAPPING AND FORMATION OF AGGREGATES OF CONTROLLED SIZE AND COMPOSITION

Dielectrophoretic Traps for Efficient Bead and Cell Trapping and Formation of Aggregates of Controlled Size and Composition

We present a microfluidic dielectrophoretic-actuated system designed to trap chosen single-cell and form controlled cell Membrane Switch aggregates.A novel method is proposed to characterize the efficiency of the dielectrophoretic trapping, considering the flow speed but also the heat generated by the traps as limiting criteria in cell-safe manipul

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Evaluating yield and land equivalent ratio in mixcropping of balangu (Lallemantia royleana Benth.) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) affected by weed competition

Introduction Intercropping is considered to be important for a lot of reasons like optimizing water and soil resource uses, increasing water use efficiency, increasing pest, diseases and weed control efficiency, decrease pesticide application, increasing total production and land equivalent ratio and sustainability in agroecosystems.Production of m

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Analysis of opticin binding to collagen fibrils identifies a single binding site in the gap region and a high specificity towards thin heterotypic fibrils containing collagens II, and XI or V/XI.

Opticin is a class III member of the extracellular matrix small leucine-rich repeat protein/proteoglycan (SLRP) family found in vitreous humour and cartilage.It was first identified associated with the surface of vitreous collagen fibrils and several other SLRPs are also known to bind L-Arginine collagen fibrils and it some cases alter fibril morph

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