Fibrotic microtissue array to predict anti-fibrosis drug efficacy

oleh: Mohammadnabi Asmani, Sanjana Velumani, Yan Li, Nicole Wawrzyniak, Isaac Hsia, Zhaowei Chen, Boris Hinz, Ruogang Zhao

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2018-05-01

Deskripsi

A bottleneck in developing new anti-fibrosis therapies is the absence of suitable in vitro models that recapitulate key features of fibrogenesis. Here the authors develop a tissue-on-a-chip model of lung fibrosis and test the therapeutic efficacy of two recent FDA-approved drugs.