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Thermally-Assisted Acoustofluidic Separation For Bioanalytical Applications, Ata Dolatmoradi
Thermally-Assisted Acoustofluidic Separation For Bioanalytical Applications, Ata Dolatmoradi
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Changes in the biomechanical properties of cells accompanying the development of various pathological conditions have been increasingly reported as biomarkers for various diseases and as a predictor of disease progression stages. For instance, cancer cells have been found to be less stiff compared to their healthy counterparts due to the proteomic and lipidomic dysregulations conferred by the underlying pathology. The separation and selective recovery of cells or extracellular vesicles secreted from such cells that have undergone these changes have been suggested to be of diagnostic and prognostic value.
This dissertation first describes the implementation of a stiffness-based separation of phosphatidylcholine-based …