Organ-on-a-chip: Recent breakthroughs and future prospects

Q Wu, J Liu, X Wang, L Feng, J Wu, X Zhu… - Biomedical engineering …, 2020 - Springer
The organ-on-a-chip (OOAC) is in the list of top 10 emerging technologies and refers to a
physiological organ biomimetic system built on a microfluidic chip. Through a combination of …

Engineered human blood–brain barrier microfluidic model for vascular permeability analyses

C Hajal, GS Offeddu, Y Shin, S Zhang, O Morozova… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) greatly restricts the entry of biological and engineered
therapeutic molecules into the brain. Due to challenges in translating results from animal …

Modelling cancer in microfluidic human organs-on-chips

A Sontheimer-Phelps, BA Hassell, DE Ingber - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
One of the problems that has slowed the development and approval of new anticancer
therapies is the lack of preclinical models that can be used to identify key molecular, cellular …

3D self-organized microvascular model of the human blood-brain barrier with endothelial cells, pericytes and astrocytes

M Campisi, Y Shin, T Osaki, C Hajal, V Chiono… - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) regulates molecular trafficking, protects against pathogens,
and prevents efficient drug delivery to the brain. Models to date failed to reproduce the …

Hypoxia-enhanced Blood-Brain Barrier Chip recapitulates human barrier function and shuttling of drugs and antibodies

TE Park, N Mustafaoglu, A Herland… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The high selectivity of the human blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricts delivery of many
pharmaceuticals and therapeutic antibodies to the central nervous system. Here, we …

Beyond polydimethylsiloxane: alternative materials for fabrication of organ-on-a-chip devices and microphysiological systems

SB Campbell, Q Wu, J Yazbeck, C Liu… - ACS biomaterials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is the predominant material used for organ-on-a-chip devices
and microphysiological systems (MPSs) due to its ease-of-use, elasticity, optical …

Human iPSC-derived blood-brain barrier chips enable disease modeling and personalized medicine applications

GD Vatine, R Barrile, MJ Workman, S Sances… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) tightly regulates the entry of solutes from blood into the brain
and is disrupted in several neurological diseases. Using Organ-Chip technology, we created …

Organs-on-a-chip: a fast track for engineered human tissues in drug development

K Ronaldson-Bouchard, G Vunjak-Novakovic - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Organs-on-a-chip (OOCs) are miniature tissues and organs grown in vitro that enable
modeling of human physiology and disease. The technology has emerged from converging …

Biology and models of the blood–brain barrier

C Hajal, B Le Roi, RD Kamm… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is one of the most selective endothelial barriers. An
understanding of its cellular, morphological, and biological properties in health and disease …

[HTML][HTML] Application of microfluidic chip technology in pharmaceutical analysis: A review

P Cui, S Wang - Journal of pharmaceutical analysis, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of pharmaceutical analytical methods represents one of the most
significant aspects of drug development. Recent advances in microfabrication and …