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Organ-on-a-chip Technology in Urology
Креативная хирургия и онкология, 2023 Organs-on-chips (OOC) refer to microfluidic devices used to create biomimetic systems of physiological organs. The system contains engineered or natural miniature tissues grown inside microfluidic chips.
A. G. Vardikian +4 more
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A guide to the organ-on-a-chip
Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 2022 Organs-on-chips (OoCs) are systems containing engineered or natural miniature tissues grown inside microfluidic chips. To better mimic human physiology, the chips are designed to control cell microenvironments and maintain tissue-specific functions.
Chak Ming Leung +14 more
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Aggregate, 2023 Organ‐on‐a‐chip (OOC) platforms recapitulate human in vivo‐like conditions more realistically compared to many animal models and conventional two‐dimensional cell cultures.
Sajjad Rahmani Dabbagh +5 more
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Tissue Chips and Microphysiological Systems for Disease Modeling and Drug Testing
Micromachines, 2021 Tissue chips (TCs) and microphysiological systems (MPSs) that incorporate human cells are novel platforms to model disease and screen drugs and provide an alternative to traditional animal studies.
Leslie Donoghue +3 more
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Toxicology Research and Application, 2017 In the last few years, considerable attention has been given to in vitro models in an attempt to reduce the use of animals and to decrease the rate of preclinical failure associated with the development of new drugs. Simple two-dimensional cultures grown in a dish are now frequently replaced by organotypic cultures with three-dimensional (3-D ...
David Bovard +4 more
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Design and engineering of organ-on-a-chip
Biomedical Engineering Letters, 2023 Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) is an emerging interdisciplinary technology that reconstitutes the structure, function, and physiology of human tissues as an alternative to conventional preclinical models for drug screening. Over the last decade, substantial progress has been made in mimicking tissue- and organ-level functions on chips through technical advances
Sujin Cho, Sumi Lee, Song Ih Ahn
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Microfluidic Liver-on-a-Chip for Preclinical Drug Discovery
Pharmaceutics, 2023 Drug discovery is an expensive, long, and complex process, usually with a high degree of uncertainty. In order to improve the efficiency of drug development, effective methods are demanded to screen lead molecules and eliminate toxic compounds in the ...
Jingyu Fu, Hailong Qiu, Cherie S. Tan
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Organ-on-a-chip platforms for evaluation of environmental nanoparticle toxicity
Bioactive Materials, 2021 Despite showing a great promise in the field of nanomedicine, nanoparticles have gained a significant attention from regulatory agencies regarding their possible adverse health effects upon environmental exposure.
Rick Xing Ze Lu, Milica Radisic
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Microfluidic-Chip-Integrated Biosensors for Lung Disease Models
Biosensors, 2021 Lung diseases (e.g., infection, asthma, cancer, and pulmonary fibrosis) represent serious threats to human health all over the world. Conventional two-dimensional (2D) cell models and animal models cannot mimic the human-specific properties of the lungs.
Shuang Ding, Haijun Zhang, Xuemei Wang
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Organ-on-a-chip technology for nanoparticle research [PDF]
Nano Convergence, 2021 AbstractThe last two decades have witnessed explosive growth in the field of nanoengineering and nanomedicine. In particular, engineered nanoparticles have garnered great attention due to their potential to enable new capabilities such as controlled and targeted drug delivery for treatment of various diseases.
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