[HTML][HTML] 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) …

[HTML][HTML] Biomedical applications of microfluidic devices: a review

G Gharib, İ Bütün, Z Muganlı, G Kozalak, İ Namlı… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Both passive and active microfluidic chips are used in many biomedical and chemical
applications to support fluid mixing, particle manipulations, and signal detection. Passive …

[HTML][HTML] A human lung alveolus-on-a-chip model of acute radiation-induced lung injury

Q Dasgupta, A Jiang, AM Wen, RJ Mannix… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Acute exposure to high-dose gamma radiation due to radiological disasters or cancer
radiotherapy can result in radiation-induced lung injury (RILI), characterized by acute …

[HTML][HTML] Microfluidic organ-on-a-chip: a guide to biomaterial choice and fabrication

UMN Cao, Y Zhang, J Chen, D Sayson, S Pillai… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Organ-on-A-chip (OoAC) devices are miniaturized, functional, in vitro constructs that aim to
recapitulate the in vivo physiology of an organ using different cell types and extracellular …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Advances of microfluidic lung chips for assessing atmospheric pollutants exposure

H Wang, F Yin, Z Li, W Su, D Li - Environment International, 2023 - Elsevier
Atmospheric pollutants, including particulate matters, nanoparticles, bioaerosols, and some
chemicals, have posed serious threats to the environment and the human's health. The …

[HTML][HTML] Revolutionizing drug development: harnessing the potential of organ-on-chip technology for disease modeling and drug discovery

N Sunildutt, P Parihar… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The inefficiency of existing animal models to precisely predict human pharmacological
effects is the root reason for drug development failure. Microphysiological system/organ-on …

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 …

Emerging delivery approaches for targeted pulmonary fibrosis treatment

R Diwan, HN Bhatt, E Beaven, M Nurunnabi - Advanced drug delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a progressive, and life-threatening interstitial lung disease which
causes scarring in the lung parenchyma and thereby affects architecture and functioning of …

What can an organ-on-a-chip teach us about human lung pathophysiology?

H Bai, DE Ingber - Physiology, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
The intertwined relationship between structure and function has been key to understanding
human organ physiology and disease pathogenesis. An organ-on-a-chip (organ chip) is a …