Muscle on a Chip: State of the Art
Why a muscle on a chip? FUN FACT: Skeletal muscles account for 40% of the total body weight in humans and consume about 30% of energy intake. Skeletal muscles are…
Pancreas on a chip : State of the Art
Why a pancreas on a chip? The pancreas is an annex gland of the digestive system. It has both endocrine and exocrine functionality. Its exocrine function consists of the secretion…
Heart on a chip: State of the Art
Why a heart on a chip? The heart is the central element of the cardiovascular system. If it is dysfunctional, other organs will not receive enough oxygen. Some pharmaceuticals induced…
Liver on a chip state of the art
Why a liver on a chip? The liver is part of the digestive tract, and the main organ involved in the metabolism of xenobiotics, thus in toxicological studies (either fundamental…
The complexity behind the 3D cell cultures: the 3D liver cell culture case
Introduction to 3D Liver Cell Culture Once it is clear how to deal with 3D cell cultures it is time to focus on one type of cell and analyze its…
From 2D to 3D cell cultures
Why and how? From 2D to 3D cell culture: The main issues find while using 2D cell systems, is that it is not possible to have access to the specific architecture…
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Organotypic culture: from the beginning to 3D cell culture
What is the organotypic culture? Organotypic culture is defined as the culture of an organ collected from an organism. It is one method allowing the culture of complex tissues or…
Organs on chips and drug development
Why switching from conventional models to Organs on Chips? Whereas 2D culture models are able to provide large amounts of relatively inexpensive data, this type of model weakly represents the…
