Advances in engineering human tissue models

CM Moysidou, C Barberio, RM Owens - Frontiers in bioengineering …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Research in cell biology greatly relies on cell-based in vitro assays and models that facilitate
the investigation and understanding of specific biological events and processes under …

Vat photopolymerization 3D printed microfluidic devices for organ-on-a-chip applications

LA Milton, MS Viglione, LJY Ong, GP Nordin, YC Toh - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Organs-on-a-chip, or OoCs, are microfluidic tissue culture devices with micro-scaled
architectures that repeatedly achieve biomimicry of biological phenomena. They are well …

Microfluidic organ-on-chip system for multi-analyte monitoring of metabolites in 3D cell cultures

J Dornhof, J Kieninger, H Muralidharan, J Maurer… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Three-dimensional cell cultures using patient-derived stem cells are essential in vitro
models for a more efficient and individualized cancer therapy. Currently, culture conditions …

[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 …

The tumor-on-chip: Recent advances in the development of microfluidic systems to recapitulate the physiology of solid tumors

G Trujillo-de Santiago, BG Flores-Garza… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
The ideal in vitro recreation of the micro-tumor niche—although much needed for a better
understanding of cancer etiology and development of better anticancer therapies—is highly …

Artificial intelligence-powered microfluidics for nanomedicine and materials synthesis

L Liu, M Bi, Y Wang, J Liu, X Jiang, Z Xu, X Zhang - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging technology with great potential, and its robust
calculation and analysis capabilities are unmatched by traditional calculation tools. With the …

Tumour-on-a-chip: microfluidic models of tumour morphology, growth and microenvironment

HF Tsai, A Trubelja, AQ Shen… - Journal of The Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death, albeit enormous efforts to cure the
disease. To overcome the major challenges in cancer therapy, we need to have a better …

A three-dimensional (3D) organotypic microfluidic model for glioma stem cells–Vascular interactions

D Truong, R Fiorelli, ES Barrientos, EL Melendez… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Despite many treatment options,
prognosis of GBM remains dismal with a 5-year survival rate of 4.7%. Even then, tumors …

Prospects for hypoxia-based drug delivery platforms for the elimination of advanced metastatic tumors: from 3D modeling to clinical concepts

M Shahpouri, MA Adili-Aghdam, H Mahmudi… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypoxia is a unique characteristic of the solid tumor microenvironment. Hypoxia contributes
to multi-drug resistance, metastasis and cancer relapse through numerous molecular …

Tumor-on-a-chip for integrating a 3D tumor microenvironment: chemical and mechanical factors

L Wan, CA Neumann, PR LeDuc - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Tumor progression, including metastasis, is significantly influenced by factors in the tumor
microenvironment (TME) such as mechanical force, shear stress, chemotaxis, and hypoxia …