Microfluidics for Biologists Fundamentals and Applications

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Table 8.2

List of different organ on chip devices with few fabrication and operation parameters

Organon chip

Type of cellscultured

Organ level specific functionmimicked

Platform

Rate of fluidflow

Shear stress

References

Heart

Cardiac myocytes Contractility and tissue

structure

Mascular thin film based singlechannel fluidic chip with metallicbase

1 mL min

^1

–[

46

]

Liver

Hepatocytes,hepatic stellatecells

Improved cell-cell interac-tion, controlled fluid flowrate

Bichambered MF device withfluid flow controlled by osmoticpump

94.7–304.7

μL

per 12 h

–[

47

]

Kidney Primary epithelial

cells

Low shear stress conditions,tubular morphology

MF device consisting of twocompartments separated byporous polyester membrane

0.2 dyne cm

^2

[^48

]

Lung

Alveolar epithe-lial cells, pulmo-nary endothelialcells

Pressure driven stretchingoccurring in alveolar capil-lary interface duringbreathing

Flow stretch strip having twoclosely apposed microchannelsseparated by a 10

μm porous

PDMS membrane

20

μLh

^1

–[

31

]

Intestine Intestinal epithe-

lial cells

Peristaltic movements ofintestine, microbial growthin stomach

MF device consisting of twocompartments separated byporous polyester membrane

10–100

μLh

^1

0.002–0.08 dyne cm

^2

[^34

]

Brain

Brain endothelialcells

Blood brain barrier functionof brain

Bilayered membrane based MFdevice

2.5 mL h

^1

0.58 Pa

[^49

]

206 S. Solanki and C.M. Pandey


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