title: Engineering challenges for instrumenting and controlling integrated organ-on-chip systems.
abstract: The sophistication and success of recently reported microfabricated organs-on-chips and human organ constructs have made it possible to design scaled and interconnected organ systems that may significantly augment the current drug development pipeline and lead to advances in systems biology. Physiologically realistic live microHuman (μHu) and milliHuman (mHu) systems operating for weeks to months present exciting and important engineering challenges such as determining the appropriate size for each organ to ensure appropriate relative organ functional activity, achieving appropriate cell density, providing the requisite universal perfusion media, sensing the breadth of physiological responses, and maintaining stable control of the entire system, while maintaining fluid scaling that consists of ~5 mL for the mHu and ~5 μL for the μHu. We believe that successful mHu and μHu systems for drug development and systems biology will require low-volume microdevices that support chemical signaling, microfabricated pumps, valves and microformulators, automated optical microscopy, electrochemical sensors for rapid metabolic assessment, ion mobility-mass spectrometry for real-time molecular analysis, advanced bioinformatics, and machine learning algorithms for automated model inference and integrated electronic control. Toward this goal, we are building functional prototype components and are working toward top-down system integration.
authors: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235-1807, USA. john.wikswo@vanderbilt.edu
authors: John P
authors: JP
authors: Wikswo
authors: Frank E
authors: FE
authors: Block
authors: David E
authors: DE
authors: Cliffel
authors: Cody R
authors: CR
authors: Goodwin
authors: Christina C
authors: CC
authors: Marasco
authors: Dmitry A
authors: DA
authors: Markov
authors: David L
authors: DL
authors: McLean
authors: John A
authors: JA
authors: McLean
authors: Jennifer R
authors: JR
authors: McKenzie
authors: Ronald S
authors: RS
authors: Reiserer
authors: Philip C
authors: PC
authors: Samson
authors: David K
authors: DK
authors: Schaffer
authors: Kevin T
authors: KT
authors: Seale
authors: Stacy D
authors: SD
authors: Sherrod
mesh_terms: D001187:Artificial Organs; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D056656:Lab-On-A-Chip Devices; D008954:Models, Biological; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000295:instrumentation
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