Blood cell - vessel wall interactions probed by reflection interference contrast microscopy

Heather S. Davies; Natalia S. Baranova; Nouha El Amri; Liliane Coche-Guérente; Claude Verdier; Lionel Bureau; Ralf P. Richter; Delphine Débarre

doi:10.1117/12.2527058

22 July 2019 Blood cell - vessel wall interactions probed by reflection interference contrast microscopy

Heather S. Davies, Natalia S. Baranova, Nouha El Amri, Liliane Coche-Guérente, Claude Verdier, Lionel Bureau, Ralf P. Richter, Delphine Débarre

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Proceedings Volume 11076, Advances in Microscopic Imaging II; 110760V (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2527058
Event: European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, 2019, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Numerous biophysical questions require the quantification of short-range interactions between (functionalized) surfaces and synthetic or biological objects such as cells. Here, we present an original, custom built setup for reflection interference contrast microscopy that can assess distances between a substrate and a flowing object at high speed with nanometric accuracy. We demonstrate its use to decipher the complex biochemical and mechanical interplay regulating blood cell homing at the vessel wall in the microcirculation using an in vitro approach. We show that in the absence of specific biochemical interactions, flowing cells are repelled from the soft layer lining the vessel wall, contributing to red blood cell repulsion in vivo. In contrast, this so-called glycocalyx stabilizes rolling of cells under flow in the presence of a specific receptor naturally present on activated leucocytes and a number of cancer cell lines.

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Heather S. Davies, Natalia S. Baranova, Nouha El Amri, Liliane Coche-Guérente, Claude Verdier, Lionel Bureau, Ralf P. Richter, and Delphine Débarre "Blood cell - vessel wall interactions probed by reflection interference contrast microscopy", Proc. SPIE 11076, Advances in Microscopic Imaging II, 110760V (22 July 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2527058

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