Journal article
Building Blood Vessel Chips with Enhanced Physiological Relevance
Advanced materials technologies, Vol.8(7), 2201778
04/06/2023
DOI: 10.1002/admt.202201778
Abstract
Blood vessel chips are bioengineered microdevices, consisting of biomaterials, human cells, and microstructures, which recapitulate essential vascular structure and physiology and allow a well-controlled microenvironment and spatial-temporal readouts. Blood vessel chips afford promising opportunities to understand molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying a range of vascular diseases. The physiological relevance is key to these blood vessel chips that rely on bioinspired strategies and bioengineering approaches to translate vascular physiology into artificial units. Here, several critical aspects of vascular physiology are discussed, including morphology, material composition, mechanical properties, flow dynamics, and mass transport, which provide essential guidelines and a valuable source of bioinspiration for the rational design of blood vessel chips. The state-of-art blood vessel chips are also reviewed that exhibit important physiological features of the vessel and reveal crucial insights into the biological processes and disease pathogenesis, including rare diseases, with notable implications for drug screening and clinical trials. It is envisioned that the advances in biomaterials, biofabrication, and stem cells improve the physiological relevance of blood vessel chips, which, along with the close collaborations between clinicians and bioengineers, enable their widespread utility.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Building Blood Vessel Chips with Enhanced Physiological Relevance
- Creators
- Xuan Mu - Brigham and Women's HospitalMarie Denise Gerhard-Herman - Brigham and Women's HospitalYu Shrike Zhang - Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Advanced materials technologies, Vol.8(7), 2201778
- DOI
- 10.1002/admt.202201778
- ISSN
- 2365-709X
- eISSN
- 2365-709X
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 28
- Grant note
- CISE-IIS-2225698 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) UG3TR003274; UG3TR003274-W1 / National Institutes of Health; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA Brigham Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 02/03/2023
- Date published
- 04/06/2023
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984378330102771
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