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Mako Koiwai

Why are my serum-starved Jurkat cells adhering during my migration...

Alexandre Omeyer  Follow

You can perform wound healing assay to measure the rate of cell migration. I think the assay you are performing will result into cell invasion properties. However, I am not sure of latter. Please confirm it once again. Thanks!


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Brodie Brickey  Follow

Hello, for how long did you incubate the Jurkat cells?
Bubble formation between the lower and inner chamber may also prevent cells from migrating. It is also my view. Thanks!


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Connor Foley  Follow

Hello
For how long did you incubate the Jurkat cells?
Bubble formation between the lower and inner chamber may also prevent cells from migrating.


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Andrew Wrigley  Follow

Let me ask: how can a cell migrate if it doesn't have traction? Without attachment there is no traction and thus no migration.
Ever tried to drive a car on wet ice? Same challenge - no traction, no motive force, no movement!


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Chris Spring  Follow

Hi,
first of all if I am right Jurkat cells are precisely not supposed to migrate well, at least on a 2D substrate there is a striking contrast compared to primary T cells. A second thing is that the albumin in the FBS will limit cell adhesion , but from my experience with Jurkat cells, even in 10% FBS they will eventually form some adhesive contact with their substrate, although obviously not as strong as in the case of adherent cells.


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Dan Koren  Follow

This paper seems to be all about that serum-free induced adhesion of Jurkat cells!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20229509

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Bert Willke  Follow

This paper seems to be all about that serum-free induced adhesion of Jurkat cells!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20229509

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Connie Adams  Follow

Hello,
Did you solved the problem?
thank you.

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Alin Stefan  Follow

Cells adhere to the chamber, nothing wrong! Probably, you have to put more cells and incubate longer time.


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Anders Rehnberg  Follow

Why wouldn't they adhere to the chamber? you provide them enough fibronectin as well as vitronectin when you add 10% serum. Jurkat cells express the integrin receptors a5b1 and a4b1 that can mediate this adhesion. Having said that, their adherence does not mean they cannt not migrate.
Are you adding any kind of attractant to the lower/ outer chamber to give them some insentive to migrate?


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