Device for vascular hemodynamic bionic cell experiment and methods for using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9784662-B2
Application number	US-201615272697-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2016
Priority date	Sep 30, 2015
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

A method of using a device for conducting a vascular hemodynamic bionic cell experiment is provided, the method comprises: firstly, experiment preparation; and secondly, experiment operation, namely, switching on a peristaltic pump, pumping a circulation liquid from a collection bottle into an independently corresponding shunting chamber of a corresponding shunting bottle through a collection bottle sampling tube of an independent chamber of a collection bottle, after shunting by the shunting chamber of the shunting bottle, the circulation liquid flowing out of a branch shunting tube flows to a corresponding flow chamber on the 1-3 flow chamber platforms placed side by side, and then converging the circulation liquid to a corresponding independent chamber of the collection bottle through respective sampling tubes of the flow chamber platforms. The method provided by the present disclosure has the technical characteristics of strong practicability and low manufacturing cost, and can perform a vascular hemodynamic bionic cell experiment under multiple conditions with multiple parameters when used in combination with different models of shunting bottles and flow chamber platforms.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A device for vascular hemodynamic bionic cell experiment,
wherein the device comprises a cabinet, a controller and a carbon dioxide gas bottle, the inside of the cabinet is partitioned into a front chamber and a rear chamber by an insulation board, a circulation fluid shunting drive system is comprised in the cabinet at one side of the front chamber, and an experiment observation system is comprised in the cabinet at the other side of said front chamber,
wherein the circulation fluid shunting drive system provides circulation fluid for the experiment observation system; the circulation fluid shunting drive system comprises a shunting bottle sliding rail, a shunting bottle altitude scale, a shunting bottle, a collection bottle and a peristaltic pump; the shunting bottle sliding rail is vertically mounted on the insulation board from the top down; the shunting bottle altitude scale, parallel to the shunting bottle sliding rail, is mounted on the insulation board at one side of the shunting bottle sliding rail; the shunting bottle comprises multiple shunting chambers and is mounted on the shunting bottle sliding rail; the collection bottle comprises multiple independent chambers and the outside thereof is coated with a collection bottle heating wire, and both the collection bottle and the peristaltic pump are mounted on the bottom half of the insulation board; each independent chamber of the collection bottle is connected to a shunting chamber of the shunting bottle respectively through the multichannel peristaltic tip of the peristaltic pump via a collection bottle sampling tube; each of the shunting chambers of the shunting bottle is connected to an inlet of an experiment observation system through the shunting tube; each fluid outlet of the experiment observation system is respectively connected to an independent chamber of the collection bottle through the sampling tube; each independent chamber of the collection bottle is connected to a shunting chamber of the shunting bottle through a shunting bottle bottom tube; a shunting bottle ventilation tube is comprised at the top of the shunting bottle; a collection bottle ventilation tube is comprised at the top of the collection bottle; a temperature control device for regulating and controlling the temperature of the front chamber is comprised in the rear chamber of the cabinet; the carbon dioxide gas bottle is connected to the shunting bottle in the cabinet through a carbon dioxide gas tube; the controller is wired to the experiment observation system, the shunting bottle sliding rail, the temperature control device and the collection bottle heating wire; all of the tubes connected with the shunting bottle are flexible tubes; the experiment observation system comprises an illuminating lamp box, a microscope stage, a flow chamber platform, a microscope objective lens, a CCD image sensor and a microscope stand; the illuminating lamp box is mounted on the top half of the insulation board; the microscope stage is mounted on the insulation board under the illuminating lamp box; the device comprises a plurality of flow chamber platforms, all of which are comprised on the microscope stage; one end of each of the experiment flow chamber of the flow chamber platform is connected to a shunting chamber of the shunting bottle through the shunting tubes, and the other end is connected to an independent chamber of the collection bottle through the sampling tubes; the microscope objective lens is mounted on the microscope stand under the microscope stage; the CCD image sensor is mounted on the microscope stand under the microscope objective lens; the microscope stand is mounted on the insulation board under the CCD image sensor; the controller is wired to the microscope objective lens and the CCD image sensor; the insulation board is provided with at least two circulation air filtering ports from the top down; the temperature control device comprises a heating motor fixed in the middle of the insulation board and two draught fans each fixed respectively at one of the two circulation air filtering ports on the insulation board; and the heating motor and the two draught fans are connected through an upper air duct and a lower air duct, respectively.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein 1 type of circulation liquid, 1 shunting bottle and 1 collection bottle is used to provide circulation liquid for the chambers of 3 flow chamber platforms; or 2 different types of circulation liquid, 2 drift bottles and 2 collection bottles are used to provide 2 different types of circulation liquid for the chambers of 3 flow chamber platforms; and when a fluid experiment for living cells is performed, a flow chamber constant-temperature box is additionally comprised by the flow chamber platform.

3. The device according to claim 2 , wherein the outside of each flow chamber platform is configured to comprise a flow chamber constant-temperature box.

4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the top of the front chamber of the cabinet is configured to comprise the ultraviolet lamp which is wired to the controller.

5. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the top of the front chamber of the cabinet is configured to comprise a temperature-humidity sensor which is wired to the controller.

6. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the cabinet is hermetic and heat-insulated.

7. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the entire front surface of the cabinet is configured to be a transparent door.

8. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the entire back surface of the cabinet is configured to be a transparent door comprising an upper and a lower air inlet with a filter net.

9. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the device comprises 1-3 shunting bottle sliding rails, each of which is equipped with a shunting bottle, and the number of the collection bottles is the same as that of the shunting bottles.

10. A method of using a device for a vascular hemodynamic bionic cell experiment, wherein the device for the vascular hemodynamic bionic cell experiment comprises a cabinet, a controller and a carbon dioxide gas bottle, the inside of the cabinet is partitioned into a front chamber and a rear chamber by an insulation board, a circulation fluid shunting drive system is comprised in the cabinet at one side of the front chamber, and an experiment observation system is comprised in the cabinet at the other side of said front chamber, wherein the circulation fluid shunting drive system provides circulation fluid for the experiment observation system; the circulation fluid shunting drive system comprises a shunting bottle sliding rail, a shunting bottle altitude scale, a shunting bottle, a collection bottle and a peristaltic pump; the shunting bottle sliding rail is vertically mounted on the insulation board from the top down; the shunting bottle altitude scale, parallel to the shunting bottle sliding rail, is mounted on the insulation board at one side of the shunting bottle sliding rail; the shunting bottle comprises multiple shunting chambers and is mounted on the shunting bottle sliding rail; the collection bottle comprises multiple independent chambers and the outside thereof is coated with a collection bottle heating wire, and both the collection bottle and the peristaltic pump are mounted on the bottom half of the insulation board; each independent chamber of the collection bottle is connected to a shunting chamber of the shunting bottle respectively through the multi-channel peristaltic tip of the peristaltic pump via a collection bottle sampling tube; each of the shunting chambers of the shunting bottle is connected to an inlet of an experiment observation system through the shunting tu

Assignees

• Univ Chongqing
• Univ Chongqing Sci & Tech

Inventors

• Xu Zichen
• Wang Guixue
• Xu Wenfeng
• Liao Xiaoling

Classifications

• G01N2015/0065

  Physics · mapped topic

• C12M41/46

  of cellular or enzymatic activity or functionality, e.g. cell viability · CPC title

• G02B21/362

  Mechanical details, e.g. mountings for the camera or image sensor, housings (G02B21/364 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01N15/1404

  Handling flow, e.g. hydrodynamic focusing · CPC title

• G01N2015/1006

  for cytology · CPC title