Recent advances in microfluidic technology for bioanalysis and diagnostics

SF Berlanda, M Breitfeld, CL Dietsche… - Analytical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Microfluidics has become a mature technology, providing an excellent toolbox for the
handling and manipulation of fluid samples, suspended cells, and particles. About 30 years …

Tumor-on-a-chip: from bioinspired design to biomedical application

X Liu, J Fang, S Huang, X Wu, X Xie, J Wang… - Microsystems & …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is one of the leading causes of human death, despite enormous efforts to explore
cancer biology and develop anticancer therapies. The main challenges in cancer research …

Quantitative prediction of human pharmacokinetic responses to drugs via fluidically coupled vascularized organ chips

A Herland, BM Maoz, D Das, MR Somayaji… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
Analyses of drug pharmacokinetics (PKs) and pharmacodynamics (PDs) performed in
animals are often not predictive of drug PKs and PDs in humans, and in vitro PK and PD …

Standardisation needs for organ on chip devices

M Piergiovanni, SB Leite, R Corvi, M Whelan - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Organ on chip (OoC) devices represent the cutting edge of biotechnologies, combining
advanced cell and tissue culture with microengineering. OoC is accelerating innovation in …

[HTML][HTML] Effective exposure of chemicals in in vitro cell systems: A review of chemical distribution models

S Proença, BI Escher, FC Fischer, C Fisher, S Grégoire… - Toxicology in Vitro, 2021 - Elsevier
Nominal effect concentrations from in vitro toxicity assays may lead to inaccurate estimations
of in vivo toxic doses because the nominal concentration poorly reflects the concentration at …

Simulating drug concentrations in PDMS microfluidic organ chips

J Grant, A Özkan, C Oh, G Mahajan, R Prantil-Baun… - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidic organ-on-a-chip (Organ Chip) cell culture devices are often fabricated using
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) because it is biocompatible, transparent, elastomeric, and …

Human biomimetic liver microphysiology systems in drug development and precision medicine

A Gough, A Soto-Gutierrez, L Vernetti… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Microphysiology systems (MPS), also called organs-on-chips and tissue chips, are
miniaturized functional units of organs constructed with multiple cell types under a variety of …

Recent advances of organ-on-a-chip in cancer modeling research

X Liu, Q Su, X Zhang, W Yang, J Ning, K Jia, J Xin, H Li… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although many studies have focused on oncology and therapeutics in cancer, cancer
remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Due to the unclear molecular …

Injection molding and characterization of PMMA-based microfluidic devices

X Ma, R Li, Z Jin, Y Fan, X Zhou, Y Zhang - Microsystem Technologies, 2020 - Springer
Microfluidics has been widely used in biological, chemical, medical and environmental fields
for the precise control of liquid in micro/nanoscale. Various fabrication methods have been …

In vitro platform for studying human insulin release dynamics of single pancreatic islet microtissues at high resolution

PM Misun, B Yesildag, F Forschler… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Insulin is released from pancreatic islets in a biphasic and pulsatile manner in response to
elevated glucose levels. This highly dynamic insulin release can be studied in vitro with islet …