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