Microfluidic organs-on-chips

SN Bhatia, DE Ingber - Nature biotechnology, 2014 - nature.com
An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic cell culture device created with microchip manufacturing
methods that contains continuously perfused chambers inhabited by living cells arranged to …

Engineered nanoparticles for drug delivery in cancer therapy

T Sun, YS Zhang, B Pang, DC Hyun… - Nanomaterials and …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
In medicine, nanotechnology has sparked a rapidly growing interest as it promises to solve a
number of issues associated with conventional therapeutic agents, including their poor …

25th anniversary article: Rational design and applications of hydrogels in regenerative medicine

N Annabi, A Tamayol, JA Uquillas, M Akbari… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymer‐based materials with high water content and physical
characteristics that resemble the native extracellular matrix. Because of their remarkable …

Lung-on-a-chip: the future of respiratory disease models and pharmacological studies

J Shrestha, S Razavi Bazaz… - Critical reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Recently, organ-on-a-chip models, which are microfluidic devices that mimic the
cellular architecture and physiological environment of an organ, have been developed and …

Alternative (non-animal) methods for cosmetics testing: current status and future prospects—2010

S Adler, D Basketter, S Creton, O Pelkonen… - Archives of …, 2011 - Springer
The 7th amendment to the EU Cosmetics Directive prohibits to put animal-tested cosmetics
on the market in Europe after 2013. In that context, the European Commission invited …

Body-on-a-chip simulation with gastrointestinal tract and liver tissues suggests that ingested nanoparticles have the potential to cause liver injury

MB Esch, GJ Mahler, T Stokol, ML Shuler - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of nanoparticles in medical applications is highly anticipated, and at the same time
little is known about how these nanoparticles affect human tissues. Here we have simulated …

The role of body-on-a-chip devices in drug and toxicity studies

MB Esch, TL King, ML Shuler - Annual review of biomedical …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
High-quality, in vitro screening tools are essential in identifying promising compounds
during drug development. Tests with currently used cell-based assays provide an indication …

Advances in silica based nanoparticles for targeted cancer therapy

Y Yang, C Yu - Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Targeted delivery of anticancer drug specifically to tumor site without damaging normal
tissues has been the dream of all scientists fighting against cancer for decades. Recent …

Microfabricated mammalian organ systems and their integration into models of whole animals and humans

JH Sung, MB Esch, JM Prot, CJ Long, A Smith… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
While in vitro cell based systems have been an invaluable tool in biology, they often suffer
from a lack of physiological relevance. The discrepancy between the in vitro and in vivo …

ADMET profiling in drug discovery and development: perspectives of in silico, in vitro and integrated approaches

NEH Daoud, P Borah, PK Deb… - Current Drug …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
In the drug discovery setting, undesirable ADMET properties of a pharmacophore with good
predictive power obtained after a tedious drug discovery and development process may …