Simultaneous visualization of flow fields and oxygen concentrations to unravel transport and metabolic processes in biological systems

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  • Soeren Ahmerkamp
  • Farooq Moin Jalaluddin
  • Yuan Cui
  • Douglas R. Brumley
  • Pacherres, Cesar
  • Jasmine S. Berg
  • Roman Stocker
  • Marcel M. M. Kuypers
  • Klaus Koren
  • Lars Behrendt

From individual cells to whole organisms, O-2 transport unfolds across micrometer- tomillimeter-length scales and can change within milliseconds in response to fluid flows and organismal behavior. The spatiotemporal complexity of these processes makes the accurate assessment of O-2 dynamics via currently availablemethods difficult or unreliable. Here, we present "sensPIV,'' a method to simultaneously measure O-2 concentrations and flow fields. By tracking O-2-sensitive microparticles in flow using imaging technologies that allow for instantaneous referencing, wemeasuredO(2) transportwithin (1) microfluidic devices, (2) sinkingmodel aggregates, and (3) complex colony-forming corals. Through the use of sensPIV, we find that corals use ciliarymovement to link zones of photosynthetic O-2 production to zones of O-2 consumption. SensPIV can potentially be extendable to study flow-organism interactions across many life-science and engineering applications.

Original languageEnglish
Article number100216
JournalCell Reports Methods
Volume2
Issue number5
Number of pages18
ISSN2667-2375
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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  • PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY, O-2 DYNAMICS, FLUID, RHIZOSPHERE, VERSATILE, SEDIMENTS, FLUXES, ROOTS, CELLS, LIVE

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