California's Stem Cell Agency
California Institute for regenerative medicine
The State stem cell agency

Microfluidic image cytometry for quantitative single-cell profiling of human pluripotent stem cells in chemically defined conditions.

Journal: 
Lab Chip
Publication Year: 
2010
Authors: 
Ken-ichiro Kamei
Minori Ohashi
Eric Gschweng
Quinn Ho
Jane Suh
Jinghua Tang
Zeta Tak For Yu
Amander T Clark
April D Pyle
Michael A Teitell
Ki-Bum Lee
Owen N Witte
Hsian-Rong Tseng
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Funding Grants: 
Role of Mitochondria in Self-Renewal Versus Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Generation of Pluripotent Cell Lines from Human Embryos
Microfluidic Platform for Screening Chemically Defined Conditions that Facilitate Clonal Expansion of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
Mitochondrial Metabolism in hESC and hiPSC Differentiation, Reprogramming, and Cancer
Public Summary: 
Scientific Abstract: 
Microfluidic image cytometry (MIC) has been developed to study phenotypes of various hPSC lines by screening several chemically defined serum/feeder-free conditions. A chemically defined hPSC culture was established using 20 ng mL(-1) of bFGF on 20 microg mL(-1) of Matrigel to grow hPSCs over a week in an undifferentiated state. Following hPSC culture, we conducted quantitative MIC to perform a single cell profiling of simultaneously detected protein expression (OCT4 and SSEA1). Using clustering analysis, we were able to systematically compare the characteristics of various hPSC lines in different conditions.