Organ-on-a-chip: a new paradigm for drug development

C Ma, Y Peng, H Li, W Chen - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The pharmaceutical industry has been desperately searching for efficient drug discovery
methods. Organ-on-a-Chip, a cutting-edge technology that can emulate the physiological …

When stiffness matters: mechanosensing in heart development and disease

R Gaetani, EA Zizzi, MA Deriu, U Morbiducci… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
During embryonic morphogenesis, the heart undergoes a complex series of cellular
phenotypic maturations (eg, transition of myocytes from proliferative to quiescent or …

Blood–brain barrier injury and neuroinflammation induced by SARS-CoV-2 in a lung–brain microphysiological system

P Wang, L Jin, M Zhang, Y Wu, Z Duan, Y Guo… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
In some patients, COVID-19 can trigger neurological symptoms with unclear pathogenesis.
Here we describe a microphysiological system integrating alveolus and blood–brain barrier …

Frataxin gene editing rescues Friedreich's ataxia pathology in dorsal root ganglia organoid-derived sensory neurons

PG Mazzara, S Muggeo, M Luoni, L Massimino… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal-recessive neurodegenerative and cardiac
disorder which occurs when transcription of the FXN gene is silenced due to an excessive …

Functional microvascularization of human myocardium in vitro

O King, D Cruz-Moreira, A Sayed, F Kermani… - Cell reports …, 2022 - cell.com
In this study, we report static and perfused models of human myocardial-microvascular
interaction. In static culture, we observe distinct regulation of electrophysiology of human …

Dynamic and static biomechanical traits of cardiac fibrosis

H Liu, P Fan, F Jin, G Huang, X Guo… - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cardiac fibrosis is a common pathology in cardiovascular diseases which are reported as
the leading cause of death globally. In recent decades, accumulating evidence has shown …

A microphysiological system combining electrospun fibers and electrical stimulation for the maturation of highly anisotropic cardiac tissue

A López-Canosa, S Perez-Amodio… - …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The creation of cardiac tissue models for preclinical testing is still a non-solved problem in
drug discovery, due to the limitations related to the in vitro replication of cardiac tissue …

Human organotypic bioconstructs from organ-on-chip devices for human-predictive biological insights on drug candidates

I Cavero, JM Guillon, HH Holzgrefe - Expert opinion on drug safety, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Historically, drug development and marketing failures have been experienced
by pharma organizations largely from insufficient human-predictability of biological data …

Considerations for the bioengineering of advanced cardiac in vitro models of myocardial infarction

P Sharma, X Wang, CLC Ming, L Vettori, G Figtree… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the latest advances in cardiovascular biology and medicine, myocardial infarction
(MI) remains one of the major causes of deaths worldwide. While reperfusion of the …

Medicinal biotechnology for disease modeling, clinical therapy, and drug discovery and development

R Duelen, M Corvelyn, I Tortorella, L Leonardi… - Introduction to Biotech …, 2019 - Springer
Over the past decades, stem cell technology has revolutionalized medical biotechnology
due to the unlimited self-renewal ability and differentiation capacity of stem cells to generate …