Towards a "body on a chip" using spherical microtissues in a microfluidic network

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1540-1542

  Frey, Olivier ^a   Mohanty, Soumyaranjan ^a   Moritz, Wolfgang ^b   Hierlemann, Andreas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b InSphero AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D tissue; Body on a chip; Drug development; HepG2; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; MICROFLUIDICS;

3-D TISSUES; BODY ON A CHIP; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; HEPG2; PERFUSION;

TISSUE;

EID: 84901817885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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