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dc.contributor.advisor | Selvaganapathy, P. R. | en_US |
dc.contributor.advisor | Gupta, Bhagwati | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ghaemi, Reza | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T21:13:42Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2014-02-27 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2014-04 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/8812 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 9890 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 5231581 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/15339 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Microinjection is an established and reliable method to deliver transgenic constructs and other reagents to specific locations in the animal. Specifically, microinjection of a desired DNA construct into the distal gonad is the most widely used method to generate germ-line transformation of <em>C. elegans</em>. Although, current <em>C. elegans</em> microinjection method is an effective manner for creating transgenic worms, it requirements such as expensive multi DOF micromanipulator, detailed injection alignment procedure and skilled operator which makes the microinjection process slow and not suitable for scale to high throughput. Although many microfabricated microinjectors exist, none of them are capable of immobilizing a freely mobile animal such as <em>C.elegans</em> worm. In this research, a microfluidic microinjector was developed to simultaneously immobilize a freely mobile animal such as <em>C.elegans</em> and perform microinjection by using a simple and fast mechanism for needle actuation. The entire process of the microinjection takes ~30 seconds which includes 10s for worm loading and aligning, 5s needle penetration, 5s reagent injection and 5s worm unloading. The capability of the microinjector chip for creating transgenic <em>C. elegans</em> was illustrated (with success rate between 4% to 20%)</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | Microfluidic | en_US |
dc.subject | Microinjection | en_US |
dc.subject | C. elegans | en_US |
dc.subject | Transgenic | en_US |
dc.subject | Behavioral Neurobiology | en_US |
dc.subject | Biological Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject | Biology | en_US |
dc.subject | Biomechanical Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject | Biomedical devices and instrumentation | en_US |
dc.subject | Behavioral Neurobiology | en_US |
dc.title | MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR MICROINJECTION OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
dc.date.embargo | 2015-02-27 | - |
dc.description.degree | Master of Science (MSc) | en_US |
dc.date.embargoset | 2015-02-27 | en_US |
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