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Engineering Organ-on-a-Chip Systems for Vascular Diseases
Summary
This review covers organ-on-a-chip technology, which creates miniature models of blood vessels on microchips to study diseases like atherosclerosis and blood clots. While not directly about microplastics, this technology is increasingly being used to study how microplastics and nanoplastics affect human blood vessels and organs in controlled laboratory settings. These advanced models could help researchers better understand the health risks of microplastic exposure without relying solely on animal studies.
Vascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis and thrombosis, are major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Traditional in vitro models for studying vascular diseases have limitations, as they do not fully recapitulate the complexity of the in vivo microenvironment. Organ-on-a-chip systems have emerged as a promising approach for modeling vascular diseases by incorporating multiple cell types, mechanical and biochemical cues, and fluid flow in a microscale platform. This review provides an overview of recent advancements in engineering organ-on-a-chip systems for modeling vascular diseases, including the use of microfluidic channels, ECM (extracellular matrix) scaffolds, and patient-specific cells. We also discuss the limitations and future perspectives of organ-on-a-chip for modeling vascular diseases.
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