Microfluidics for drug development: from synthesis to evaluation

Y Liu, L Sun, H Zhang, L Shang, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Drug development is a long process whose main content includes drug synthesis, drug
delivery, and drug evaluation. Compared with conventional drug development procedures …

[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 …

Recent advances for cancer detection and treatment by microfluidic technology, review and update

N Bargahi, S Ghasemali, S Jahandar-Lashaki… - Biological Procedures …, 2022 - Springer
Numerous cancer-associated deaths are owing to a lack of effective diagnostic and
therapeutic approaches. Microfluidic systems for analyzing a low volume of samples offer a …

Spheroid engineering in microfluidic devices

A Tevlek, S Kecili, OS Ozcelik, H Kulah, HC Tekin - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) cell culture techniques are commonly employed to investigate
biophysical and biochemical cellular responses. However, these culture methods, having …

[HTML][HTML] On-chip modeling of tumor evolution: Advances, challenges and opportunities

C Li, JB Holman, Z Shi, B Qiu, W Ding - Materials Today Bio, 2023 - Elsevier
Tumor evolution is the accumulation of various tumor cell behaviors from tumorigenesis to
tumor metastasis and is regulated by the tumor microenvironment (TME). However, the …

Breaking the clean room barrier: exploring low-cost alternatives for microfluidic devices

CF Rodríguez, V Andrade-Pérez, MC Vargas… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microfluidics is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses both science and engineering,
which aims to design and fabricate devices capable of manipulating extremely low volumes …

Fabrication of a low-cost microfluidic device for high-throughput drug testing on static and dynamic cancer spheroid culture models

TD Do, UT Pham, LP Nguyen, TM Nguyen, CN Bui… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Drug development is a complex and expensive process from new drug discovery to product
approval. Most drug screening and testing rely on in vitro 2D cell culture models; however …

[HTML][HTML] From cell spheroids to vascularized cancer organoids: Microfluidic tumor-on-a-chip models for preclinical drug evaluations

Y Wu, Y Zhou, X Qin, Y Liu - Biomicrofluidics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Chemotherapy is one of the most effective cancer treatments. Starting from the discovery of
new molecular entities, it usually takes about 10 years and 2 billion US dollars to bring an …

[HTML][HTML] Spheroid-on-chip microfluidic technology for the evaluation of the impact of continuous flow on metastatic potential in cancer models in vitro

T Collins, E Pyne, M Christensen, A Iles, N Pamme… - …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The majority of cancer deaths are linked to tumor spread, or metastasis, but 3D in vitro
metastasis models relevant to the tumor microenvironment (including interstitial fluid flow) …

Rapid prototy** of PMMA-based microfluidic spheroid-on-a-chip models using micromilling and vapour-assisted thermal bonding

MAM Ahmed, KM Jurczak, NS Lynn Jr, JPSH Mulder… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The application of microfluidic devices as next-generation cell and tissue culture systems
has increased impressively in the last decades. With that, a plethora of materials as well as …