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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 26, Issue 12, Pages 4720-4727Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2011.05.033
Keywords
In situ electroporation(ISE); Electric cell-substrate impedance sensing (ECIS); Whole cell biosensors; Impedmetric monitoring; Bleomycin
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SPP1313]
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In this study adherent animal cells were grown to confluence on circular gold-film electrodes of 250 mu m diameter that had been deposited on the surface of a regular culture dish. The impedance of the cell-covered electrode was measured at designated frequencies to monitor the behavior of the cells with time. This approach is referred to as electric cell-substrate impedance sensing or short ECIS in the literature. The gold-film electrodes were also used to deliver well-defined AC voltage pulses of several volts amplitude and several hundred milliseconds duration to the adherent cells in order to achieve reversible membrane electroporation (in situ electroporation = ISE). Electroporation-assisted introduction of membrane impermeable molecules into the cytoplasm was studied by using FITC-labeled dextran molecules of different molecular weights. Probes as big as 2 MDa were successfully loaded into the cells residing on the electrode surface. Time-resolved impedance measurements before and immediately after the electroporation pulse revealed the kinetics of membrane resealing as well as subsequent changes in cell morphology. Cells recovered from the electroporation pulse within less than 90 min. When membrane-impermeable, bioactive compounds like N-3(-) or bleomycin were introduced into the cells by in situ electroporation, concomitant ECIS readings sensitively reported on the associated response of the cells to these toxins as a function of time (ISE-ECIS). (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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