Real time electronic cell sensing systems and applications for cell-based assays

    公开(公告)号:US11604197B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-14

    申请号:US16833180

    申请日:2020-03-27

    摘要: Methods for identifying compounds that modulate cellular responses stimulated by IgE, which include providing an impedance-based system that monitors cell-substrate impedance of cells on a substrate; introducing cells to the substrate of the system; adding at least one test compound and IgE to the cells, wherein the at least one test compound is suspected of modulating cell responses stimulated by the IgE; adding an antigen to the cells; monitoring the cell-substrate impedance of cells on the substrate; and analyzing the cell-substrate impedance to evaluate whether the at least one test compound alters a cellular response to stimulation with the IgE.

    CELL-SUBSTRATE IMPEDANCE MONITORING OF CANCER CELLS

    公开(公告)号:US20210041418A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-11

    申请号:US17083589

    申请日:2020-10-29

    摘要: Methods of assessing cytolysis of cancer cells are provided, which include: providing a cell-substrate impedance monitoring device operably connected to an impedance analyzer, adding target cells characterized as cancer cells to a well of the device adding effector cells to the well to form a test well, where the effector cells are immune cells obtained or derived from a same patient as the target cells; monitoring cell-substrate impedance of the test well before and after adding the effector cells and optionally deriving an impedance-based parameter from the impedance; and determining effectiveness of effector cell killing of the target cells by comparing the impedance or impedance-based curves over time.

    System and method for detecting multiple-excitation-induced light in a flow channel

    公开(公告)号:US11287379B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-29

    申请号:US16833235

    申请日:2020-03-27

    IPC分类号: G01N21/64 G01N15/14 G01N15/10

    摘要: A system for detecting signal components of light induced by multiple excitation sources including: a flow channel including at least two spatially separated optical interrogation zones; a non-modulating excitation source that directs a light beam of a first wavelength at a near constant intensity onto a first of the optical interrogation zones; a modulating excitation source that directs a light beam of a second wavelength with an intensity modulated over time at a modulating frequency onto a second of the optical interrogation zones; a detector subsystem comprising a set of detectors configured to detect light emitted from particles flowing through the at least two optical interrogation zones and to convert the detected light into a total electrical signal; and a processor that determines signal components from the light detected from each of the optical interrogation zones.