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Incorporating mechanical strain in organs-on-a-chip: Lung and skin.


ABSTRACT: In the last decade, the advent of microfabrication and microfluidics and an increased interest in cellular mechanobiology have triggered the development of novel microfluidic-based platforms. They aim to incorporate the mechanical strain environment that acts upon tissues and in-vivo barriers of the human body. This article reviews those platforms, highlighting the different strains applied, and the actuation mechanisms and provides representative applications. A focus is placed on the skin and the lung barriers as examples, with a section that discusses the signaling pathways involved in the epithelium and the connective tissues.

SUBMITTER: Guenat OT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5962443 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Incorporating mechanical strain in organs-on-a-chip: Lung and skin.

Guenat Olivier T OT   Berthiaume François F  

Biomicrofluidics 20180521 4


In the last decade, the advent of microfabrication and microfluidics and an increased interest in cellular mechanobiology have triggered the development of novel microfluidic-based platforms. They aim to incorporate the mechanical strain environment that acts upon tissues and <i>in-vivo</i> barriers of the human body. This article reviews those platforms, highlighting the different strains applied, and the actuation mechanisms and provides representative applications. A focus is placed on the sk  ...[more]

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