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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sakuta H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6367680 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in chemistry 20190201
To artificially construct a three-dimensional cell assembly, we investigated the availability of long-duration microdroplets that emerged near a critical point in an aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) with the hydrophilic binary polymers, polyethylene glycol (PEG), and dextran (DEX), as host containers. We found that erythrocytes (horse red blood cells; RBCs) and NAMRU mouse mammary gland epithelial cells (NMuMG cells) were completely and spontaneously entrapped inside DEX-rich microdroplets. RBCs ...[more]