the purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of glass capillary micropipette (gcm) as a vessel forvitrification of bovine oocytes. cumulus-oocyte complexes (cocs) were obtained from slaughter-house andwashed 5 to 6 times in the washing medium (tcm-199 + 20% fbs) and randomly assigned to treatment andcontrol group. in the first step of vitrification, cocs were exposed to first vitrification...

Microiontophoresis entails passage of current through a micropipette tip to deliver a solute at a designated site within an experimental preparation. Microiontophoresis can simulate synaptic transmission by delivering neurotransmitters and neuropeptides onto neurons reproducibly. Negligible volume (fluid) displacement avoids mechanical disturbance to the experimental preparation. Adapting these...

Quantifying cell-adhesion strength is of great importance in biology and medicine. Cell-adhesion strength can be characterized by separating two adherent cells and determining the force required to do so, or by measuring the lifetime of a receptor-ligand bond that mediates cell adhesion. To this end, several micropipette-based experimental techniques that operate at both cellular and molecular ...

We propose a model for membrane-cortex adhesion that couples membrane deformations, hydrodynamics, and kinetics of membrane-cortex ligands. In its simplest form, the model gives explicit predictions for the critical pressure for membrane detachment and for the value of adhesion energy. We show that these quantities exhibit a significant dependence on the active acto-myosin stresses. The model p...

A novel method to readily determine the lipophilicity of electrogenerated charged species is reported. This is achieved by local electrolysis at a Pt coated micropipette and, subsequently, driving the electrogenerated species to transfer across the liquid–liquid interface supported at the tip of the micropipette under potential control. The formal potential of ion transfer can then be used to g...

Miniaturization is one of the main requirements in design portable devices that allow in-field analysis. This especially interesting environmental monitoring, where time sample-to-result process could be decreased considerably by approaching analytical platforms to sampling point. We employed traditional mass-produced and low-cost elements (micropipette tips pins) an out-of-box application gene...