Hypoxia-enhanced Blood-Brain Barrier Chip recapitulates human barrier function and shuttling of drugs and antibodies

TE Park, N Mustafaoglu, A Herland… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The high selectivity of the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricts delivery of many
pharmaceuticals and therapeutic antibodies to the central nervous system. Here, we …

Engineered human blood–brain barrier microfluidic model for vascular permeability analyses

C Hajal, GS Offeddu, Y Shin, S Zhang, O Morozova… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) greatly restricts the entry of biological and engineered
therapeutic molecules into the brain. Due to challenges in translating results from animal …

[HTML][HTML] An isogenic hiPSC-derived BBB-on-a-chip

P Motallebnejad, A Thomas, SL Swisher, SM Azarin - Biomicrofluidics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is composed of brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMECs)
that regulate brain homeostasis, and astrocytes within the brain are involved in the …

Human iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier chips enable disease modeling and personalized medicine applications

GD Vatine, R Barrile, MJ Workman, S Sances… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) tightly regulates the entry of solutes from blood into the brain
and is disrupted in several neurological diseases. Using Organ-Chip technology, we created …

Microfluidic blood–brain barrier model provides in vivo‐like barrier properties for drug permeability screening

YI Wang, HE Abaci, ML Shuler - Biotechnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient delivery of therapeutics across the neuroprotective blood–brain barrier (BBB)
remains a formidable challenge for central nervous system drug development. High‐fidelity …

A perfused human blood–brain barrier on-a-chip for high-throughput assessment of barrier function and antibody transport

NR Wevers, DG Kasi, T Gray, KJ Wilschut… - Fluids and Barriers of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Receptor-mediated transcytosis is one of the major routes for drug delivery of
large molecules into the brain. The aim of this study was to develop a novel model of the …

Investigating receptor-mediated antibody transcytosis using blood–brain barrier organoid arrays

C Simonneau, M Duschmalé, A Gavrilov… - Fluids and Barriers of …, 2021 - Springer
Background The pathways that control protein transport across the blood–brain barrier
(BBB) remain poorly characterized. Despite great advances in recapitulating the human BBB …

Blood-brain-barrier spheroids as an in vitro screening platform for brain-penetrating agents

CF Cho, JM Wolfe, CM Fadzen, D Calligaris… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Culture-based blood–brain barrier (BBB) models are crucial tools to enable rapid screening
of brain-penetrating drugs. However, reproducibility of in vitro barrier properties and …

In Situ Surface Modification of Microfluidic Blood–Brain-Barriers for Improved Screening of Small Molecules and Nanoparticles

B Peng, Z Tong, WY Tong, PJ Pasic… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Here, we have developed and evaluated a microfluidic-based human blood–brain-barrier
(μBBB) platform that models and predicts brain tissue uptake of small molecule drugs and …

Derivation of blood-brain barrier endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells

ES Lippmann, SM Azarin, JE Kay, RA Nessler… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is crucial to the health of the brain and is often compromised
in neurological disease. Moreover, because of its barrier properties, this endothelial …