Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine

DE Ingber - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The failure of animal models to predict therapeutic responses in humans is a major problem
that also brings into question their use for basic research. Organ-on-a-chip (organ chip) …

Patient-derived tumor organoids: a new avenue for preclinical research and precision medicine in oncology

L Thorel, M Perréard, R Florent, J Divoux… - … & Molecular Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Over the past decade, the emergence of patient-derived tumor organoids (PDTOs) has
broadened the repertoire of preclinical models and progressively revolutionized three …

Engineering vascularized organoid-on-a-chip models

VS Shirure, CCW Hughes… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Recreating human organ–level function in vitro is a rapidly evolving field that integrates
tissue engineering, stem cell biology, and microfluidic technology to produce 3D organoids …

Organoids/organs-on-a-chip: new frontiers of intestinal pathophysiological models

L Wu, Y Ai, R Xie, J Xiong, Y Wang, Q Liang - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Organoids/organs-on-a-chip open up new frontiers for basic and clinical research of
intestinal diseases. Species-specific differences hinder research on animal models, while …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-on-chip modeling of organ-specific cancer and metastasis

N Del Piccolo, VS Shirure, Y Bi… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Every year, cancer claims millions of lives around the globe. Unfortunately, model systems
that accurately mimic human oncology–a requirement for the development of more effective …

Omentum-on-a-chip: A multicellular, vascularized microfluidic model of the human peritoneum for the study of ovarian cancer metastases

LI Ibrahim, C Hajal, GS Offeddu, MR Gillrie, RD Kamm - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Epithelial ovarian cancer has the highest mortality rate of any gynecologic malignancy and
most frequently metastasizes to the peritoneal cavity. Intraperitoneal metastases are highly …

Emerging tumor-on-chips with electrochemical biosensors

L Lei, B Ma, C Xu, H Liu - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer, one of the most dangerous diseases with a high mortality rate, has attracted much
attention and interest. Advances in tissue engineering and microfluidics have led to the …

Organoids and organs-on-chips: insights into predicting the efficacy of systemic treatment in colorectal cancer

J Zhu, L Ji, Y Chen, H Li, M Huang, Z Dai, J Wang… - Cell Death …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer heterogeneity has posed a great challenge to traditional cancer treatment, with the
reappearance of cancer heterogeneity of inter and intra patients being especially critical …

New strategy for promoting vascularization in tumor spheroids in a microfluidic assay

Z Wan, MA Floryan, MF Coughlin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have developed vascularized tumor spheroid models to demonstrate the
impact of intravascular flow on tumor progression and treatment. However, these models …

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 …