Kinahan, David J. ORCID: 0000-0003-1968-2016, Dalton, Tara and Davies, Mark (2009) Effect of substrate thermal resistance on space-domain microchannel. Biomedical Microdevices, 11 (4). pp. 747-754. ISSN 1387-2176
Abstract
In recent years, Fluorescent Melting Curve Analysis (FMCA) has become an almost ubiquitous feature of commercial quantitative PCR (qPCR) thermal cyclers. Here a micro-fluidic device is presented capable of performing FMCA within a microchannel. The device consists of modular thermally conductive blocks which can sandwich a microfluidic substrate. Opposing ends of the blocks are held at differing temperatures and a linear thermal gradient is generated along the microfluidic channel. Fluorescent measurements taken from a sample as it passes along the micro-fluidic channel permits fluorescent melting curves to be generated. In this study we measure DNA melting temperature from two plasmid fragments. The effects of flow velocity and ramp-rate are investigated, and measured melting curves are compared to those acquired from a commercially available PCR thermocycler.
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Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | PCR; μTAS; DNA denaturation; Fluorescent melting curve analysis; Microchannel; Thermal resistance |
Subjects: | Engineering > Biomedical engineering |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | UNSPECIFIED |
Publisher: | Kluwer (Springer) |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10544-009-9288-6 |
Copyright Information: | © 2009 Springer The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
ID Code: | 17160 |
Deposited On: | 15 Aug 2012 10:14 by David Kinahan . Last Modified 26 Oct 2018 09:48 |
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