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. 2021 Oct 11;5(4):103–119. doi: 10.1049/enb2.12015

TABLE 2.

Microfluidic applications for microbial and mammalian cells based on culture modes

Culture modes Application Cell types Remarks
Batch Screening for desired phenotypes Escherichia coli [138]
Saccharomyces cerevisiae [138]
Pichia pastoris [43]
Yarrowia lipolytica [42]
Yeast [32]
Aspergillus niger [33]
Hybridoma cells [44, 132]
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) Escherichia coli [39, 40]
Klebsiella pneumoniae [40]
Staphylococcus aureus [40, 139]
Enterococcus faecalis [40]
Cell migration Human breast cancer cell lines, human neutrophils [140]
Cell‐cell interaction Clonostachys rosea, Fusarium graminearum [141]
Determination of monod kinetic parameter Saccharomyces cerevisiae [24, 142]
Fed‐Batch Multidrug screening A549 cells [143]
Optimise feeding strategies Corynebacterium glutamicum [18]
Perfusion Bioprocess development Pichia pastoris [27]
Saccharomyces cerevisiae [21]
CHO cell line [97, 144]
C2C12, HFF cell lines and mouse embryonic stem cells [145]
Cell migration Pseudomonas putida [146]
Human oral squamous cancer cell line, Human glioblastoma cell line [147]
Jurkat cell [148]
Cytotoxicity assay HUVEC cells [61]
Subculture Adaptive evolution Escherichia coli [34, 126]
3D culture Cytotoxicity assay HeLa cells [149]
Colon cancer cells (HCT116) [81]
Cell‐cell interaction Tumour‐endothelial cell [118]