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Microchannel-nanopore device for bacterial chemotaxis assays.
Analytical chemistry - 15 Nov 2010
Kovarik Michelle L, Brown Pamela J B, Kysela David T, Berne Cécile, Kinsella Anna C, Brun Yves V, Jacobson Stephen C
Abstract excerpt
Motile bacteria bias the random walk of their motion in response to chemical gradients by the process termed chemotaxis, which allows cells to accumulate in favorable environments and disperse from less favorable ones. In this work, we describe a simple microchannel-nanopore device that establishes a stable chemical gradient for chemotaxis assays in ≤1 min. Chemoattractant is dispensed by diffusion through 10 nm...
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