Physiologically relevant organs on chips

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-27

  Yum, Kyungsuk ^a,b   Hong, Soon Gweon ^a   Healy, Kevin E ^a   Lee, Luke P ^a  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Microengineering; Microfluidics; Organs on chips; Physiologically relevant microenvironment; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL STIMULI; HUMAN DISEASE MODELS; MICRO-ENGINEERING; MICROENVIRONMENTS; MICROFLUIDIC CELL CULTURE; ORGANS-ON-CHIPS; PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

CELL CULTURE; DYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; MEDICINE; MICROFLUIDICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG SCREENING; DYNAMICS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; LAB ON A CHIP; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

MICROENGINEERING; MICROFLUIDICS; ORGANS-ON-CHIPS; PHYSIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT MICROENVIRONMENT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84891930814     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: 18607314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201300187     Document Type: Article

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