Effect of magnetic bead agglomeration on Cytomagnetometric measurements

IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience
Winfried MöllerJoachim Heyder

Abstract

Magnetic twisting cytometry (MTC) is a novel tool to measure cytoskeleton-associated cell functions by the use of ferromagnetic microbeads. Magnetic beads are either incorporated by living cells by phagocytic processes or attached to integrin receptors to the cell membrane. The magnetic beads are magnetized and aligned in a strong magnetic field pulse. The application of twisting forces allows to investigate mechanical properties (stiffness, viscoelasticity) of the cytoskeleton of living cells by analyzing the magnetic cell field. Incorporated magnetic beads undergo intracellular transport processes, which result in a loss of particle alignment and in a decay of the remanent magnetic cell field. This process, called relaxation, depends on the mechanical cytoskeletal properties and can directly visualize the intracellular energy of cellular transport processes. The preparation of spherical monodisperse ferromagnetic beads made it possible to understand the above-described processes using mathematical models. Experimental conditions with many magnetic particles per cell enhances the formation of aggregates because of the attractive forces between magnetic spheres, resulting in a change of magnetic properties and of hydrodynamic b...Continue Reading

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Sep 1, 2011·The Analyst·Xin HuangShuifang Zhu
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