Department of Pharmacy, School of Medical and Allied Sciences, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, U.P., India.
School of Pharmacy, KPJ Healthcare University College (KPJUC), Nilai, Malaysia.
Curr Pharm Des. 2024;30(25):1952-1965. doi: 10.2174/0113816128305296240523112043.
Organ-on-chip is an innovative technique that emerged from tissue engineering and microfluidic technologies. Organ-on-chip devices (OoCs) are anticipated to provide efficient explanations for dealing with challenges in pharmaceutical advancement and individualized illness therapies. Organ-on-chip is an advanced method that can replicate human organs' physiological conditions and functions on a small chip. It possesses the capacity to greatly transform the drug development process by enabling the simulation of diseases and the testing of drugs. Effective integration of this advanced technical platform with common pharmaceutical and medical contexts is still a challenge. Microfluidic technology, a micro-level technique, has become a potent tool for biomedical engineering research. As a result, it has revolutionized disciplines, including physiological material interpreting, compound detection, cell-based assay, tissue engineering, biological diagnostics, and pharmaceutical identification. This article aims to offer an overview of newly developed organ-on-a-chip systems. It includes single-organ platforms, emphasizing the most researched organs, including the heart, liver, blood arteries, and lungs. Subsequently, it provides a concise overview of tumor-on-a-chip systems and emphasizes their use in evaluating anti-cancer medications.
器官芯片是一种新兴的技术,源自组织工程和微流控技术。器官芯片设备(OoC)有望为解决药物研发和个体化疾病治疗中的挑战提供有效的解释。器官芯片是一种先进的方法,可以在小芯片上复制人体器官的生理条件和功能。它具有通过模拟疾病和测试药物来极大地改变药物开发过程的能力。将这个先进的技术平台与常见的药物和医学背景有效地整合仍然是一个挑战。微流控技术是一种微观技术,已成为生物医学工程研究的有力工具。因此,它彻底改变了包括生理物质解释、化合物检测、基于细胞的测定、组织工程、生物诊断和药物鉴定在内的多个学科。本文旨在概述新开发的器官芯片系统。它包括单器官平台,重点介绍研究最多的器官,包括心脏、肝脏、血动脉和肺。随后,它简要概述了肿瘤芯片系统,并强调了它们在评估抗癌药物方面的应用。