CN114196539B - In-vitro pump-free culture chip based on microfluidic technology - Google Patents

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CN114196539B
CN114196539B CN202111540096.7A CN202111540096A CN114196539B CN 114196539 B CN114196539 B CN 114196539B CN 202111540096 A CN202111540096 A CN 202111540096A CN 114196539 B CN114196539 B CN 114196539B
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The application discloses an in-vitro pump-free tissue culture chip based on a microfluidic technology, and belongs to the technical field of tissue culture. The application comprises an upper chip and a lower chip, wherein the upper chip is arranged above the lower chip; the surface of the lower chip is provided with a cavity channel and a flow resistance channel, one end of the cavity channel is connected with the inlet, the other end of the cavity channel is connected with one end of the groove-shaped flow resistance channel, and the other end of the flow resistance channel is connected with the outlet; the upper chip is provided with a tissue cavity for placing a sample, a sample loading port is arranged in the tissue cavity, the tissue cavity is arranged above the cavity channel, and a porous membrane is arranged between the tissue cavity and the cavity channel to support the sample; and a culture medium collecting tank, a culture medium storage tank and a culture medium balancing tank are arranged above the upper chip. The chip provided by the application can realize dynamic flow of the culture medium under the condition of no pump valve and external pipeline, and is convenient to prepare and simple to operate.

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In-vitro pump-free culture chip based on microfluidic technology
Technical Field
The application belongs to the technical field of tissue culture, and particularly relates to an in-vitro pump-free tissue culture chip based on a microfluidic technology.
Background
From drug design, discovery and safety analysis to clinical personalized medicine, appropriate in vitro models are required as detection tools in order to more accurately understand the biological basis of the disease and to improve the accuracy of drug screening. Although the structure of the isolated primary tissue is more complex and the function is closer to that of the in vivo, compared with the cell line, the primary tissue is difficult to maintain in vitro for a longer culture time because of being out of the steady-state microenvironment in vivo. In vivo tissue is exposed to physiological fluid conditions, whereas conventional static culture is difficult to provide a similar microenvironment.
In recent years, microfluidic organ chip technology has been developed, and dynamic circulation of culture medium in the chip provides a more physiologically relevant environment for tissue culture and solves many problems of static organ tissue culture systems. Organ-chips have been reported to maintain various types of tissue, including liver, intestinal tract, retina, artery, lymph, tumor xenografts, testes, and the like.
Although microfluidic chips provide a powerful tool for tissue dynamic culture, the fluids of conventional chips require external pump valve actuation, which undoubtedly increases the use threshold and cost.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the application provides an in-vitro pump-free culture chip based on a microfluidic technology, and the chip can realize dynamic flow of culture medium under the conditions of no pump valve and external pipeline, and provides a novel in-vitro tissue culture platform which is simple and easy to use.
The chip adopted for solving the technical problem comprises an upper chip and a lower chip; the surface of the lower chip is provided with a groove-shaped cavity channel, one end of the cavity channel is connected with the inlet, culture solution enters the cavity channel from the inlet, the other end of the cavity channel is connected with one end of a groove-shaped flow resistance channel, and the other end of the flow resistance channel is connected with the outlet; the upper chip is provided with a tissue cavity for placing a sample, a sample loading port is arranged in the tissue cavity, the tissue cavity is arranged above the cavity channel, and a porous membrane is arranged between the tissue cavity and the cavity channel to support the sample; the culture medium collection device is characterized in that a culture medium collection tank, a culture medium storage tank and a culture medium balancing tank are arranged above the upper chip, the bottom of the culture medium collection tank is connected with the outlet, the culture medium storage tank is connected with the inlet, and the culture medium balancing tank is connected with the sample loading port.
Optionally, the flow resistance channels are grooves which are narrow in width, long in length and arranged in a zigzag manner, and the number of the grooves for bending the flow resistance channels is 1-200.
Optionally, the total length of the flow resistance channel is 1-500mm, the width is 10-500 μm, and the depth is 10-500 μm.
Optionally, the culture medium collecting tank, the culture medium storage tank and the culture medium balancing tank are all cylindrical, the bottom of the culture medium collecting tank penetrates through the upper chip to be connected with the outlet, and the bottom of the culture medium storage tank penetrates through the upper chip to be connected with the inlet.
Optionally, the pore diameter of the porous membrane is micro-nano scale, and the pore diameter is 0.01-100 μm.
Optionally, the porous membrane material is selected from one of polymer materials such as polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate, polytetrafluoroethylene, polydimethylsiloxane, polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene and the like.
Optionally, the fluid velocity in the flow resistance channel is 0.01-10 μl/min.
Optionally, the number of tissue chambers is at least one.
Optionally, the upper chip, the porous membrane and the lower chip are manufactured by one of an ultrasonic method, a plasma sealing method and a clamp assembling method.
The beneficial effects are that:
(1) The application provides a structure-oriented gravity-driven micro-fluidic tissue culture chip, which can realize dynamic flow of culture medium under the condition of no pump valve and external pipeline, and provides a novel simple and easy-to-use in-vitro tissue culture platform.
(2) The microfluidic nonwoven tissue culture chip provided by the application can be used for detecting tissues by adopting a common biological detection means, including morphological tracking observation, cell dead-living marker staining, cell immunofluorescence staining, gene expression detection, protein detection, flow cytometry, HE staining and the like. The chip is convenient to prepare and simple to operate, and can provide a novel in-vitro platform for microfluidic tissue culture.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the in vitro pump-free culture chip.
FIG. 2 is a bright field plot of mouse testis tissue growth at different times on-chip in example 2, wherein: (a) is a bright field map of a mouse testis tissue just placed in a chip, (b) is a bright field map of a mouse testis tissue placed in a chip for 40 days, (c) is a bright field map of a mouse testis tissue placed in a chip for 80 days, and (d) is a bright field map of a mouse testis tissue placed in a chip for 160 days.
In the figure, 1, an inlet, 2, a loading port, 3, an upper chip, 4, a lower chip, 5, a porous membrane, 6, a tissue chamber, 7, a sample, 8, a flow resistance channel, 9, a chamber channel, 10, an outlet, 11, a culture medium collecting tank, 12, a culture medium storage tank and 13, a culture medium balancing tank.
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The following examples further illustrate the application, but are not intended to limit it.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 1, the chip of the present embodiment includes an upper chip 3 and a lower chip 4, where the upper chip 3 is disposed above the lower chip 4; the surface of the lower chip 4 is provided with a groove-shaped cavity channel 9, one end of the cavity channel 9 is connected with the inlet 1, culture solution enters the cavity channel 9 from the inlet 1, the other end of the cavity channel 9 is connected with one end of a groove-shaped flow resistance channel 8, and the other end of the flow resistance channel 8 is connected with the outlet 10; the upper chip 3 is provided with a tissue chamber 6 for placing a sample 7, a sample loading port 2 is arranged in the tissue chamber 6, the tissue chamber 6 is arranged above the chamber channel 9, and a porous membrane 5 is arranged between the tissue chamber 6 and the chamber channel 9 to support the sample 7; the culture medium collection tank 11, the culture medium liquid storage tank 12 and the culture medium balancing tank 13 are arranged above the upper chip 3, the bottom of the culture medium collection tank 11 is connected with the outlet 10, the culture medium liquid storage tank 12 is connected with the inlet 1, and the culture medium balancing tank 13 is connected with the sample loading port 2.
The flow resistance channels 8 are grooves which are narrow in width, long in length and are arranged in a zigzag manner, and 1-200 grooves for bending the flow resistance channels 8 are formed.
The total length of the flow resistance channels 8 is 1-500mm, the width is 10-500 μm, and the depth is 10-500 μm.
The culture medium collecting tank 11, the culture medium liquid storage tank 12 and the culture medium balancing tank 13 are all cylindrical, the bottom of the culture medium collecting tank 11 penetrates through the upper chip 3 to be connected with the outlet 10, and the bottom of the culture medium liquid storage tank 12 penetrates through the upper chip 3 to be connected with the inlet 1.
The pore diameter of the porous membrane 5 is micro-nano scale, and the pore diameter is 0.01-100 mu m.
The porous membrane 5 is made of one of polymer materials such as polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate, polytetrafluoroethylene, polydimethylsiloxane, polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene and the like.
The fluid velocity in the flow resistance channel 8 is 0.01-10 μl/min.
The number of tissue chambers 6 is at least one.
The upper chip 3, the porous membrane 5 and the lower chip 4 are manufactured by one of an ultrasonic method, a plasma sealing method and a clamp assembling method.
Example 2
In this example, sample 7 was a mouse testis tissue, and the procedure was as follows: the mouse testis tissue is placed in the tissue chamber 6, the medium reservoir 12 and the medium collecting tank 11 are connected to the inlet 1 and the outlet 10, and the medium balancing tank 13 is connected to the loading port 2 of the tissue chamber 6. An appropriate amount of medium is added to the medium reservoir 12, and the medium can flow into the medium balance tank 13 and the medium collection tank 11 under the driving of gravity. The level of the medium in the medium equalizing tank 13 will soon coincide with the medium reservoir 12 and then the medium will slowly flow into the medium collecting tank 11. The method requires the timed addition of medium to the medium reservoir 12 and the removal of medium from the medium reservoir 11.
In 2011, japanese student takehiko ogawa cultured mouse testis tissue by using a gas-liquid interface culture system, successfully replicated the whole process of mouse spermatogonium to spermatogenesis, and proved the fertility of sperms by an in vitro fertilization technology, however, the spermatogenesis efficiency is lower and the maintenance time is short by adopting the method.
The microfluidic tissue culture chip adopted in the embodiment can prolong the testis tissue culture time to 160 days, and the spermatogenesis efficiency is greatly improved compared with that of a gas-liquid interface culture method. The method can provide a scientific tool for researching the spermatogenesis mechanism and developing the regenerative medical technology.
While the application has been described in terms of preferred embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the application, and it is intended that the application is not limited to the specific embodiments disclosed.

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1. An in-vitro pump-free culture chip based on a microfluidic technology is characterized by comprising an upper chip (3) and a lower chip (4), wherein a groove-shaped cavity channel (9) is arranged on the surface of the lower chip (4), one end of the cavity channel (9) is connected with an inlet (1), culture solution enters the cavity channel (9) from the inlet (1), the other end of the cavity channel (9) is connected with one end of a groove-shaped flow resistance channel (8), and the other end of the flow resistance channel (8) is connected with an outlet (10); the upper chip (3) is provided with a tissue chamber (6) for placing a sample (7), a sample loading port (2) is arranged in the tissue chamber (6), the tissue chamber (6) is arranged above the chamber channel (9), and a porous membrane (5) is arranged between the tissue chamber (6) and the chamber channel (9) to support the sample (7); the culture medium collection device is characterized in that a culture medium collection tank (11), a culture medium liquid storage tank (12) and a culture medium balancing tank (13) are arranged above the upper chip (3), the bottom of the culture medium collection tank (11) is connected with the outlet (10), the culture medium liquid storage tank (12) is connected with the inlet (1), and the culture medium balancing tank (13) is connected with the sample loading port (2).
2. The chip according to claim 1, wherein the flow resistance channels (8) are narrow, long and zigzag grooves, and the number of the bent grooves of the flow resistance channels (8) is 1-200.
3. Chip according to claim 1, characterized in that the flow resistance channel (8) has a total length of 1-500mm, a width of 10-500 μm and a depth of 10-500 μm.
4. The chip according to claim 1, characterized in that the bottom of the medium reservoir (11) is connected to the outlet (10) through the upper chip (3), and the bottom of the medium reservoir (12) is connected to the inlet (1) through the upper chip (3).
5. Chip according to claim 1, characterized in that the pore size of the porous membrane (5) is micro-nano-scale, the pore size being 0.01-100 μm.
6. The chip of claim 1, wherein the porous film (5) is made of one selected from the group consisting of polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate, polytetrafluoroethylene, polydimethylsiloxane, polyester, polyethylene, and polypropylene.
7. The chip according to claim 1, characterized in that the fluid velocity in the flow resistance channel (8) is 0.01-10 μl/min.
8. Chip according to claim 1, characterized in that the number of tissue chambers (6) is at least one.
9. The chip according to claim 1, wherein the upper chip (3), the porous membrane (5) and the lower chip (4) are manufactured by one of an ultrasonic method, a plasma sealing method and a jig assembling method.
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