A guide to the organ-on-a-chip

CM Leung, P De Haan… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Organs-on-chips (OoCs) are systems containing engineered or natural miniature
tissues grown inside microfluidic chips. To better mimic human physiology, the chips are …

Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks

C O'Connor, E Brady, Y Zheng, E Moore… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The survival of vertebrate organisms depends on highly regulated delivery of oxygen and
nutrients through vascular networks that pervade nearly all tissues in the body …

Immunotherapy discovery on tumor organoid-on-a-chip platforms that recapitulate the tumor microenvironment

J Zhang, H Tavakoli, L Ma, X Li, L Han, XJ Li - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy has achieved remarkable success over the past decade by
modulating patients' own immune systems and unleashing pre-existing immunity. However …

Design and engineering of organ-on-a-chip

S Cho, S Lee, SI Ahn - Biomedical engineering letters, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) is an emerging interdisciplinary technology that
reconstitutes the structure, function, and physiology of human tissues as an alternative to …

Angiogenesis-on-a-chip coupled with single-cell RNA sequencing reveals spatially differential activations of autophagy along angiogenic sprouts

S Lee, H Kim, BS Kim, S Chae, S Jung, JS Lee… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Several functions of autophagy associated with proliferation, differentiation, and migration of
endothelial cells have been reported. Due to lack of models recapitulating angiogenic …

Engineering organ-on-a-chip to accelerate translational research

J Ko, D Park, S Lee, B Gumuscu, NL Jeon - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
We guide the use of organ-on-chip technology in tissue engineering applications. Organ-on-
chip technology is a form of microengineered cell culture platform that elaborates the in-vivo …

In situ biosensing technologies for an organ-on-a-chip

J Kim, J Kim, Y Jin, SW Cho - Biofabrication, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The in vitro simulation of organs resolves the accuracy, ethical, and cost challenges
accompanying in vivo experiments. Organoids and organs-on-chips have been developed …

High-Throughput 3D In Vitro Tumor Vasculature Model for Real-Time Monitoring of Immune Cell Infiltration and Cytotoxicity

J Song, H Choi, SK Koh, D Park, J Yu, H Kang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent advances in anticancer therapy have shown dramatic improvements in clinical
outcomes, and adoptive cell therapy has emerged as a type of immunotherapy that can …

Fabrication of a self-assembled and vascularized tumor array via bioprinting on a microfluidic chip

G Lee, SJ Kim, JK Park - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A tumor microenvironment (TME) is a complex system that comprises various components,
including blood vessels that play a crucial role in supplying nutrients, oxygen, and growth …

Microfluidic‐Based Reconstitution of Functional Lymphatic Microvasculature: Elucidating the Role of Lymphatics in Health and Disease

JC Serrano, MR Gillrie, R Li, SH Ishamuddin… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The knowledge of the blood microvasculature and its functional role in health and disease
has grown significantly attributable to decades of research and numerous advances in cell …