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Sehati M, Rafii-Tabar H, Sasanpour P. Computational modeling of the variation of the transmembrane potential of the endothelial cells of the blood-brain-barrier subject to an external electric field. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2023; 9:065009. [PMID: 37703844 DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/acf937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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The electromechanical properties of the membrane of endothelial cells forming the blood-brain barrier play a vital role in the function of this barrier. The mechanical effect exerted by external electric fields on the membrane could change its electrical properties. In this study the effect of extremely low frequency (ELF) external electric fields on the electrical activity of these cells has been studied by considering the mechanical effect of these fields on the capacitance of the membrane. The effect of time-dependent capacitance of the membrane is incorporated in the current components of the parallel conductance model for the electrical activity of the cells. The results show that the application of ELF electric fields induces hyperpolarization, having an indirect effect on the release of nitric oxide from the endothelial cell and the polymerization of actin filaments. Accordingly, this could play an important role in the permeability of the barrier. Our finding can have possible consequences in the field of drug delivery into the central nervous system.
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- Mahboobe Sehati
- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- The Physics Branch of the Academy of Sciences of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Chen Y, Guo K, Jiang L, Zhu S, Ni Z, Xiang N. Microfluidic deformability cytometry: A review. Talanta 2022; 251:123815. [DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2022] [Revised: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Sabri E, Brosseau C. Thin-layer approximation for the multi-physics and multiscale simulation of cell membrane electrodeformation. Bioelectrochemistry 2022; 145:108055. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2022.108055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 01/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Sharma V, Freedman KJ. Pressure-Biased Nanopores for Excluded Volume Metrology, Lipid Biomechanics, and Cell-Adhesion Rupturing. ACS NANO 2021; 15:17947-17958. [PMID: 34739757 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c06393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Nanopore sensing has been widely used in applications ranging from DNA sequencing to disease diagnosis. To improve these capabilities, pressure-biased nanopores have been explored in the past to-primarily-increase the residence time of the analyte inside the pore. Here, we studied the effect of pressure on the ability to accurately quantify the excluded volume which depends on the current drop magnitude produced by a single entity. Using the calibration standard, the inverse current drop (1/ΔI) decreases linearly with increasing pressure, while the dwell drop reduces exponentially. We therefore had to derive a pressure-corrected excluded volume equation to accurately assess the volume of translocating species under applied pressure. Moreover, a method to probe deformation in nanoliposomes and a single cell is developed as a result. We show that the soft nanoliposomes and even cells deform significantly under applied pressure which can be probed in terms of the shape factor which was introduced in the excluded volume equation. The proposed work has practical applications in mechanobiology, namely, assessing the stiffness and mechanical rigidity of liposomal drug carriers. Pressure-biased pores also enabled multiple observations of cell-cell aggregates as well as their subsequent rupture, potentially allowing for the study of microbial symbioses or pathogen recognition by the human immune system.
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- Vinay Sharma
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, California 92521, United States
- Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, Jammu 181221, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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Sabri E, Brosseau C. Modeling cell membrane electrodeformation by alternating electric fields. Phys Rev E 2021; 104:034413. [PMID: 34654107 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.034413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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With the aim of characterizing and gaining insight into the frequency response of cells suspended in a fluid medium and deformed with a controlled alternating electric field, a continuum-based analysis is presented for modeling electrodeformation (ED) via Maxwell stress tensor (MST) calculation. Our purpose here is to apply this approach to explain the fact that the electric field anisotropy and electrical conductivity ratio Λ of the cytoplasm and the extracellular medium significantly impact the MST exerted on the cytoplasm-membrane interface. One important finding is that the modulation of electrical cues and MST force by the frequency of the applied electric field provides an extremely rich tool kit for manipulating cells. We show the extreme sensitivity of proximity-induced capacitive coupling arising concomitantly when the magnitude of the MST increases as the distance between cells is decreased and the spatial anisotropy becomes important. Moreover, our model highlights the strongly localized character of the electrostatic field effect emanating from neighboring cells and suggests the possibility of exploiting cell distribution as a powerful tool to engineer the functional performance of cell assemblies by controlling ED and capacitive coupling. We furthermore show that frequency has a significant impact on the attenuation-amplification transition of MST, suggesting that shape anisotropy has a much weaker influence on ED of the cell membrane compared to the anisotropy induced by the orientation angle itself.
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- E Sabri
- Univ Brest, CNRS, Lab-STICC, CS 93837, 6 avenue Le Gorgeu, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France
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- Univ Brest, CNRS, Lab-STICC, CS 93837, 6 avenue Le Gorgeu, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France
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Khobaib K, Hornowski T, Rozynek Z. Particle-covered droplet and a particle shell under compressive electric stress. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:062605. [PMID: 34271657 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.062605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Understanding of the behavior of an individual droplet suspended in a liquid and subjected to a stress is important for studying and designing more complex systems, such as emulsions. Here, we present an experimental study of the behavior of a particle-covered droplet and its particle shell under compressive stress. The stress was induced by an application of a DC electric field. We studied how the particle coverage (φ), particle size (d), and the strength of an electric field (E) influence the magnitude of the droplet deformation (D). The experimental results indicate that adding electrically insulating particles to a droplet interface drastically changes the droplet deformation by increasing its magnitude. We also found that the magnitude of the deformation is not retraceable during the electric field sweeping, i.e., the strain-stress curves form a hysteresis loop due to the energy dissipation. The field-induced droplet deformation was accompanied by structural and morphological changes in the particle shell. We found that shells made of smaller particles were more prone to jamming and formation of arrested shells after removal of an electric stress.
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- Khobaib Khobaib
- Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.,PoreLab, The Njord Centre, Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
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Zhang R, Han Y, Zhang L, Chen Q, Ding M, Shi T. Migration and deformation of polyelectrolyte vesicle through a pore in electric field. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Priti Sinha K, Das S, Karyappa RB, Thaokar RM. Electrohydrodynamics of Vesicles and Capsules. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:4863-4886. [PMID: 32275824 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) made up of phospholipid bilayer membranes (liposomes) and elastic capsules with a cross-linked, polymerized membrane, have emerged as biomimetic alternatives to investigating biological cells such as leukocytes and erythrocytes. This feature article looks at the similarities and differences in the electrohydrodynamics (EHD) of vesicles and capsules under electric fields that determines their electromechanical response. The physics of EHD is illustrated through several examples such as the electrodeformation of single and compound, spherical and cylindrical, and charged and uncharged vesicles in uniform and nonuniform electric fields, and the relevance and challenges are discussed. Both small and large deformation results are discussed. The use of EHD in understanding complex interfacial kinetics in capsules and the synthesis of nonspherical capsules using electric fields are also presented. Finally, the review looks at the large electrodeformation of water-in-water capsules and the relevance of constitutive laws in their response.
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- Kumari Priti Sinha
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
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Morshed A, Karawdeniya BI, Bandara Y, Kim MJ, Dutta P. Mechanical characterization of vesicles and cells: A review. Electrophoresis 2020; 41:449-470. [PMID: 31967658 PMCID: PMC7567447 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201900362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2019] [Revised: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 12/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Vesicles perform many essential functions in all living organisms. They respond like a transducer to mechanical stress in converting the applied force into mechanical and biological responses. At the same time, both biochemical and biophysical signals influence the vesicular response in bearing mechanical loads. In recent years, liposomes, artificial lipid vesicles, have gained substantial attention from the pharmaceutical industry as a prospective drug carrier which can also serve as an artificial cell-mimetic system. The ability of these vesicles to enter through pores of even smaller size makes them ideal candidates for therapeutic agents to reach the infected sites effectively. Engineering of vesicles with desired mechanical properties that can encapsulate drugs and release as required is the prime challenge in this field. This requirement has led to the modifications of the composition of the bilayer membrane by adding cholesterol, sphingomyelin, etc. In this article, we review the manufacturing and characterization techniques of various artificial/synthetic vesicles. We particularly focus on the electric field-driven characterization techniques to determine different properties of vesicle and its membranes, such as bending rigidity, viscosity, capacitance, conductance, etc., which are indicators of their content and mobility. Similarities and differences between artificial vesicles, natural vesicles, and cells are highlighted throughout the manuscript since most of these artificial vesicles are intended for cell mimetic functions.
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- Adnan Morshed
- School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2920
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lyle School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lyle School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lyle School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2920
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Morshed A, Dutta P, Kim MJ. Electrophoretic transport and dynamic deformation of bio-vesicles. Electrophoresis 2019; 40:2584-2591. [PMID: 30993726 PMCID: PMC6718350 DOI: 10.1002/elps.201900025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Revised: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Study of the deformation dynamics of cells and other sub-micron vesicles, such as virus and neurotransmitter vesicles are necessary to understand their functional properties. This mechanical characterization can be done by submerging the vesicle in a fluid medium and deforming it with a controlled electric field, which is known as electrodeformation. Electrodeformation of biological and artificial lipid vesicles is directly influenced by the vesicle and surrounding media properties and geometric factors. The problem is compounded when the vesicle is naturally charged, which creates electrophoretic forcing on the vesicle membrane. We studied the electrodeformation and transport of charged vesicles immersed in a fluid media under the influence of a DC electric field. The electric field and fluid-solid interactions are modeled using a hybrid immersed interface-immersed boundary technique. Model results are verified with experimental observations for electric field driven translocation of a virus through a nanopore sensor. Our modeling results show interesting changes in deformation behavior with changing electrical properties of the vesicle and the surrounding media. Vesicle movement due to electrophoresis can also be characterized by the change in local conductivity, which can serve as a potential sensing mechanism for electrodeformation experiments in solid-state nanopore setups.
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- Adnan Morshed
- School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164
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- School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75275
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