Microvascularized tumor organoids-on-chips: advancing preclinical drug screening with pathophysiological relevance

J Lim, H Ching, JK Yoon, NL Jeon, YT Kim - Nano Convergence, 2021 - Springer
Recent developments of organoids engineering and organ-on-a-chip microfluidic
technologies have enabled the recapitulation of the major functions and architectures of …

Sex differences in the blood–brain barrier and neurodegenerative diseases

CM Weber, AM Clyne - APL bioengineering, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The number of people diagnosed with neurodegenerative diseases is on the rise. Many of
these diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and …

Artificial intelligence velocimetry and microaneurysm-on-a-chip for three-dimensional analysis of blood flow in physiology and disease

S Cai, H Li, F Zheng, F Kong, M Dao… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the mechanics of blood flow is necessary for developing insights into
mechanisms of physiology and vascular diseases in microcirculation. Given the limitations of …

Role of purinergic signalling in endothelial dysfunction and thrombo-inflammation in ischaemic stroke and cerebral small vessel disease

NT Lee, LK Ong, P Gyawali, CMNCM Nassir… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The cerebral endothelium is an active interface between blood and the central nervous
system. In addition to being a physical barrier between the blood and the brain, the …

Quantitative prediction of flow dynamics and mechanical retention of surface-altered red blood cells through a splenic slit

X Qi, S Wang, S Ma, K Han, X Li - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Normal red blood cells (RBCs) have remarkable properties of deformability, which enable
them to squeeze through tiny splenic inter-endothelial slits (IESs) without any damage …

A mesoscale computational model for microvascular oxygen transfer

L Possenti, A Cicchetti, R Rosati, D Cerroni… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
We address a mathematical model for oxygen transfer in the microcirculation. The model
includes blood flow and hematocrit transport coupled with the interstitial flow, oxygen …

[HTML][HTML] Cytoskeletal-based mechanisms differently regulate in vivo and in vitro proplatelet formation

A Bornert, J Boscher, F Pertuy, A Eckly, D Stegner… - …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Platelets are produced by bone marrow megakaryocytes through cytoplasmic protrusions,
named native proplatelets (nPPT), into blood vessels. Proplatelets also refer to protrusions …

Reciprocal theorem for calculating the flow rate–pressure drop relation for complex fluids in narrow geometries

E Boyko, HA Stone - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
We study the mechanically driven flows of non-Newtonian fluids in narrow and confined
configurations. Using the Lorentz reciprocal theorem, we derive a closed-form expression for …

Margination and adhesion dynamics of tumor cells in a real microvascular network

S Wang, T Ye, G Li, X Zhang, H Shi - PLoS Computational Biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
In tumor metastasis, the margination and adhesion of tumor cells are two critical and closely
related steps, which may determine the destination where the tumor cells extravasate to. We …

Emergent cell-free layer asymmetry and biased haematocrit partition in a biomimetic vascular network of successive bifurcations

Q Zhou, J Fidalgo, MO Bernabeu, MSN Oliveira… - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Blood is a vital soft matter, and its normal circulation in the human body relies on the
distribution of red blood cells (RBCs) at successive bifurcations. Understanding how RBCs …