Methods and device to constrain multicellular arrangements in stable, stationary and reproducible spatial configuration
US8765472B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 23, 2009 |
| Grant date | Jul 1, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 6, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC12N2535/10
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods and devices to obtain multicellular arrangements in stable, stationary and reproducible spatial configuration, and optionally with controlled internal cell organization, methods for preparing such devices, methods for studying the cells' shapes, the cells' architectures, the cells' mechanical equilibrium, the cell-cell interaction, the cell movement and migration, the cell differentiation, the global internal cells' organizations, the cells' polarities and division, and/or any function of cells, methods for screening compounds of interest which enhance or inhibit specific cell functions.
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