Fluidic-capacitor integrated microfluidic platform to mimic heart beating for generation of functional liver organoids

Jiaxu Wu, Yoshikazu Hirai, Ken Ichiro Kamei, Toshiyuki Tsuchiya, Osamu Tabata

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Abstract

Liver organoids hold a great potential to understand liver development and contribute for drug screening and toxicological testing. However, current methods to generate organoids provide insufficient liver functions and less reproducibility, due to lack of controllability of cellular microenvironmental cues. To tackle this issue, we focus on one of the environmental cues, pressure stimuli by heart beating, and develop a microfluidic-based cell culture platform integrating a fluidic capacitor to produce pressure stimuli mimicking heart beating. Furthermore, we demonstrate a numerical simulation based on equivalent circuit model for designing the device parameters with sufficient accuracy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018
PublisherChemical and Biological Microsystems Society
Pages1718-1721
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781510897571
StatePublished - 2018
Event22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: Nov 11 2018Nov 15 2018

Publication series

Name22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018
Volume3

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityKaohsiung
Period11/11/1811/15/18

Keywords

  • Equivalent circuit analysis
  • Fluidic capacitor
  • Organoid
  • Polydimethylsiloxane
  • Pressure stimulus

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • Bioengineering
  • Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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