Synovial joint-on-a-chip for modeling arthritis: Progress, pitfalls, and potential

ZA Li, S Sant, SK Cho, SB Goodman, BA Bunnell… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Disorders of the synovial joint, such as osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA),
afflict a substantial proportion of the global population. However, current clinical …

Comprehensive development in organ-on-a-chip technology

X Joseph, V Akhil, A Arathi, PV Mohanan - Journal of Pharmaceutical …, 2022 - Elsevier
The expeditious advancement in the organ on chip technology provided a phase change to
the conventional in vitro tests used to evaluate absorption, distribution, metabolism …

4D polycarbonates via stereolithography as scaffolds for soft tissue repair

AC Weems, MC Arno, W Yu, RTR Huckstepp… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract 3D printing has emerged as one of the most promising tools to overcome the
processing and morphological limitations of traditional tissue engineering scaffold design …

A 3D human adipose tissue model within a microfluidic device

F Yang, A Carmona, K Stojkova, EIG Huitron, A Goddi… - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
An accurate in vitro model of human adipose tissue could assist in the study of adipocyte
function and allow for better tools for screening new therapeutic compounds. Cell culture …

Autologous human immunocompetent white adipose tissue‐on‐chip

J Rogal, J Roosz, C Teufel, M Cipriano, R Xu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Obesity and associated diseases, such as diabetes, have reached epidemic proportions
globally. In this era of “diabesity”, white adipose tissue (WAT) has become a target of high …

Fat-on-a-chip models for research and discovery in obesity and its metabolic comorbidities

M McCarthy, T Brown, A Alarcon… - … Engineering Part B …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
The obesity epidemic and its associated comorbidities present a looming challenge to
health care delivery throughout the world. Obesity is characterized as a sterile inflammatory …

A biomimetic chip to assess subcutaneous bioavailability of monoclonal antibodies in humans

V Chandran Suja, QM Qi, K Halloran, J Zhang… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Subcutaneous (subQ) injection is a common route for delivering biotherapeutics, wherein
pharmacokinetics is largely influenced by drug transport in a complex subQ tissue …

Organs-on-a-Chip

LA Low, M Sutherland, N Lumelsky, S Selimovic… - … -and Microfluidics-Based …, 2020 - Springer
Organs-on-chips, also known as “tissue chips” or microphysiological systems (MPS), are
bioengineered microsystems capable of recreating aspects of human organ physiology and …

Microphysiological systems: What it takes for community adoption

P Hargrove-Grimes, LA Low… - … Biology and Medicine, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Microphysiological systems (MPS) are promising in vitro tools which could substantially
improve the drug development process, particularly for underserved patient populations …

Bio-mimicking shear stress environments for enhancing mesenchymal stem cell differentiation

S Arora, A Srinivasan, CM Leung… - Current stem cell …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent stromal cells, with the ability to differentiate
into mesodermal (eg, adipocyte, chondrocyte, hematopoietic, myocyte, osteoblast) …