Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine

DE Ingber - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The failure of animal models to predict therapeutic responses in humans is a major problem
that also brings into question their use for basic research. Organ-on-a-chip (organ chip) …

Human disease models in drug development

A Loewa, JJ Feng, S Hedtrich - Nature reviews bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Biomedical research is undergoing a paradigm shift towards approaches centred on human
disease models owing to the notoriously high failure rates of the current drug development …

A human lung alveolus-on-a-chip model of acute radiation-induced lung injury

Q Dasgupta, A Jiang, AM Wen, RJ Mannix… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Acute exposure to high-dose gamma radiation due to radiological disasters or cancer
radiotherapy can result in radiation-induced lung injury (RILI), characterized by acute …

Breakthroughs and applications of organ-on-a-chip technology

MC Koyilot, P Natarajan, CR Hunt, S Sivarajkumar… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Organ-on-a-chip (OOAC) is an emerging technology based on microfluid platforms and in
vitro cell culture that has a promising future in the healthcare industry. The numerous …

Blood–brain barrier injury and neuroinflammation induced by SARS-CoV-2 in a lung–brain microphysiological system

P Wang, L Jin, M Zhang, Y Wu, Z Duan, Y Guo… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
In some patients, COVID-19 can trigger neurological symptoms with unclear pathogenesis.
Here we describe a microphysiological system integrating alveolus and blood–brain barrier …

[HTML][HTML] Organ-on-a-chip meets artificial intelligence in drug evaluation

S Deng, C Li, J Cao, Z Cui, J Du, Z Fu, H Yang… - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Drug evaluation has always been an important area of research in the pharmaceutical
industry. However, animal welfare protection and other shortcomings of traditional drug …

[HTML][HTML] Advances of microfluidic lung chips for assessing atmospheric pollutants exposure

H Wang, F Yin, Z Li, W Su, D Li - Environment International, 2023 - Elsevier
Atmospheric pollutants, including particulate matters, nanoparticles, bioaerosols, and some
chemicals, have posed serious threats to the environment and the human's health. The …

Biomimetic in vitro lung models: current challenges and future perspective

A Doryab, J Groll - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As post‐COVID complications, chronic respiratory diseases are one of the foremost causes
of mortality. The quest for a cure for this recent global challenge underlines that the lack of …

What can an organ-on-a-chip teach us about human lung pathophysiology?

H Bai, DE Ingber - Physiology, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
The intertwined relationship between structure and function has been key to understanding
human organ physiology and disease pathogenesis. An organ-on-a-chip (organ chip) is a …

3D lung tissue models for studies on SARS-CoV-2 pathophysiology and therapeutics

R Plebani, H Bai, L Si, J Li, C Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), has provoked more than six million deaths worldwide and …