10.18453/rosdok_id00005532
Völkner, Christian
Christian
Völkner
http://d-nb.info/gnd/1400512344
Morphology and taxis of osteoblasts adhered on surfaces with tailored electric potentials
Universität Rostock
2025
530 Physics
2025
en
https://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00005532
urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00005532-5
In this work, electric fields are applied in the vicinity of MG-63 osteoblast-like cells to study their morphology, cell alignment and guided migration mainly via Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM) and optical microscopy. As shown for microcontact printed molecules stripes, representing zeta potential landscapes on glass substrates, the cells align along the structures. We attribute this cell response to double-sided cathodotaxis due to local electric fields occurring at the glass-molecule transition site.