[HTML][HTML] Menstruation: science and society

HOD Critchley, E Babayev, SE Bulun, S Clark… - American journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Women's health concerns are generally underrepresented in basic and translational
research, but reproductive health in particular has been hampered by a lack of …

[HTML][HTML] Organs-on-chips technologies–A guide from disease models to opportunities for drug development

AG Monteduro, S Rizzato, G Caragnano… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Current in-vitro 2D cultures and animal models present severe limitations in recapitulating
human physiopathology with striking discrepancies in estimating drug efficacy and side …

The tumor-on-chip: Recent advances in the development of microfluidic systems to recapitulate the physiology of solid tumors

G Trujillo-de Santiago, BG Flores-Garza… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
The ideal in vitro recreation of the micro-tumor niche—although much needed for a better
understanding of cancer etiology and development of better anticancer therapies—is highly …

Void‐free 3D bioprinting for in situ endothelialization and microfluidic perfusion

L Ouyang, JPK Armstrong, Q Chen… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Two major challenges of 3D bioprinting are the retention of structural fidelity and efficient
endothelialization for tissue vascularization. Both of these issues are addressed by …

Innovative human three-dimensional tissue-engineered models as an alternative to animal testing

P Bédard, S Gauvin, K Ferland, C Caneparo, È Pellerin… - Bioengineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
Animal testing has long been used in science to study complex biological phenomena that
cannot be investigated using two-dimensional cell cultures in plastic dishes. With time, it …

Advancements in 3D cell culture systems for personalizing anti-cancer therapies

AMK Law, L Rodriguez de la Fuente, TJ Grundy… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Over 90% of potential anti-cancer drug candidates results in translational failures in clinical
trials. The main reason for this failure can be attributed to the non-accurate pre-clinical …

An engineered tumor-on-a-chip device with breast cancer–immune cell interactions for assessing T-cell recruitment

A Aung, V Kumar, J Theprungsirikul, SK Davey… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
Recruitment of immune cells to a tumor is determined by the complex interplay between
cellular and noncellular components of the tumor microenvironment. Ex vivo platforms that …

Tissue response to neural implants: the use of model systems toward new design solutions of implantable microelectrodes

M Gulino, D Kim, S Pané, SD Santos… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The development of implantable neuroelectrodes is advancing rapidly as these tools are
becoming increasingly ubiquitous in clinical practice, especially for the treatment of …

Vascularized lung cancer model for evaluating the promoted transport of anticancer drugs and immune cells in an engineered tumor microenvironment

D Kim, KS Hwang, EU Seo, S Seo… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is the environment around the tumor, including blood
vessels, immune cells, fibroblasts, signaling molecules, and the extracellular matrix (ECM) …

Perfusable micro-vascularized 3D tissue array for high-throughput vascular phenotypic screening

J Yu, S Lee, J Song, SR Lee, S Kim, H Choi, H Kang… - Nano …, 2022 - Springer
Microfluidic organ-on-a-chip technologies have enabled construction of biomimetic
physiologically and pathologically relevant models. This paper describes an injection …