@article{493c6b3c95dd401094431ed06438f3d8,
title = "Mobile Microplates for Morphological Control and Assembly of Individual Neural Cells",
abstract = "A microfabricated device that enables morphological control and assembly of cultured single neural cells is described. Assembly of morphologically controlled single neural cells allows neuroengineers to design in vitro neural circuits with a single-cell resolution. Compared to conventional cell-patterning techniques, the device allows for the highly precise positioning of neural somas and neurites in a reproducible fashion.",
keywords = "Assembly, Cell handling, Cell patterning, Neural cells, Neural circuits",
author = "Shotaro Yoshida and Tetsuhiko Teshima and Kaori Kuribayashi-Shigetomi and Shoji Takeuchi",
note = "Funding Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge Prof. K. Ishihara at the University of Tokyo for providing the MPC polymer, and Ms. A. Yuzuriha at AOI electronics Co., Ltd., for providing the microtweezers. The authors would like to thank Prof. K. Sato at Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience and Dr. M. Kato-Negishi at the University of Tokyo for their helpful discussions. This work was partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas ?Bio Assembler? (23106008) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT), Japan, and by Platform for Dynamic Approaches to Living System, MEXT, Japan. S. Yoshida is supported by a Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for Young Scientists, Japan. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.",
year = "2016",
month = feb,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1002/adhm.201500782",
language = "English",
volume = "5",
pages = "415--420",
journal = "Advanced healthcare materials",
issn = "2192-2640",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Ltd",
number = "4",
}