(a) Diagram sketch of the PDMS chip. The horizontal cylinder channel between the two chambers is filled with matrigel (red). The left chamber is filled with the medium with 1.0% FBS, and the right chamber is filled with the medium with 10.0% FBS. (b) The picture shows the heterogeneous matrigel composed of matrigel I (red) and matrigel II (blue). The two sections form a funnel-like 3-D interface. (c) After the partial interface was filled with cells, the frontier cells escaped from interface confinement and produced finger-like invasions in the homogenous Matrigel, confirming the strong invasion of the MDA-MB-231 cells in heterogeneous gel space.[ |