Progress in the applications of smart piezoelectric materials for medical devices

A Zaszczyńska, A Gradys, P Sajkiewicz - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Smart piezoelectric materials are of great interest due to their unique properties.
Piezoelectric materials can transform mechanical energy into electricity and vice versa …

Advances in sepsis diagnosis and management: a paradigm shift towards nanotechnology

A Pant, I Mackraj, T Govender - Journal of Biomedical Science, 2021 - Springer
Sepsis, a dysregulated immune response due to life-threatening organ dysfunction, caused
by drug-resistant pathogens, is a major global health threat contributing to high disease …

[HTML][HTML] Biosensors: design, development and applications

P Tetyana, PM Shumbula, Z Njengele-Tetyana - Nanopores, 2021 - intechopen.com
The ability to detect even the slightest physiological change in the human body with high
sensitivity and accurately monitor processes that impact human nature and their …

A framework for developing sex-specific engineered heart models

R Lock, H Al Asafen, S Fleischer, M Tamargo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The convergence of tissue engineering and patient-specific stem cell biology has enabled
the engineering of in vitro tissue models that allow the study of patient-tailored treatment …

Designing of nanomaterials-based enzymatic biosensors: Synthesis, properties, and applications

FTT Cavalcante, IR de A. Falcão, JE da S. Souza… - Electrochem, 2021 - mdpi.com
Among the many biological entities employed in the development of biosensors, enzymes
have attracted the most attention. Nanotechnology has been fostering excellent prospects in …

Recent advances of biosensor-integrated organ-on-a-chip technologies for diagnostics and therapeutics

A Shinde, K Illath, U Kasiviswanathan… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conventional preclinical evaluation implemented in 2D monolayer cultures falls short with
multiorgan interactions, while animal systems lack the specificity of the human species …

Microfluidic-Based Oxygen (O2) Sensors for On-Chip Monitoring of Cell, Tissue and Organ Metabolism

M Azimzadeh, P Khashayar, M Amereh, N Tasnim… - Biosensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Oxygen (O2) quantification is essential for assessing cell metabolism, and its consumption in
cell culture is an important indicator of cell viability. Recent advances in microfluidics have …

State-of-the-art advancements in liver-on-a-chip (LOC): integrated biosensors for LOC

M Liu, Y Xiang, Y Yang, X Long, Z Xiao, Y Nan… - Biosensors and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Liver models are vital for the liver diseases and drug research as many novel drugs.
However, traditional liver models cannot meet this need, mainly because they cannot …

Biosensors to monitor cell activity in 3D hydrogel-based tissue models

A Fedi, C Vitale, P Giannoni, G Caluori, A Marrella - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Three-dimensional (3D) culture models have gained relevant interest in tissue engineering
and drug discovery owing to their suitability to reproduce in vitro some key aspects of human …

Microfluidic-chip-integrated biosensors for lung disease models

S Ding, H Zhang, X Wang - Biosensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lung diseases (eg, infection, asthma, cancer, and pulmonary fibrosis) represent serious
threats to human health all over the world. Conventional two-dimensional (2D) cell models …