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Sun J, Warden AR, Ding X. Recent advances in microfluidics for drug screening. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2019; 13:061503. [PMID: 31768197 PMCID: PMC6870548 DOI: 10.1063/1.5121200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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With ever increasing drug resistance and emergence of new diseases, demand for new drug development is at an unprecedented urgency. This fact has led to extensive recent efforts to develop new drugs and novel techniques for efficient drug screening. However, new drug development is commonly hindered by cost and time span. Thus, developing more accessible, cost-effective methods for drug screening is necessary. Compared with conventional drug screening methods, a microfluidic-based system has superior advantages in sample consumption, reaction time, and cost of the operation. In this paper, the advantages of microfluidic technology in drug screening as well as the critical factors for device design are described. The strategies and applications of microfluidics for drug screening are reviewed. Moreover, current limitations and future prospects for a drug screening microdevice are also discussed.
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- Jiahui Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Institute for
Personalized Medicine and School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Shanghai 200030, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Institute for
Personalized Medicine and School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Shanghai 200030, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Institute for
Personalized Medicine and School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Shanghai 200030, China
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Microfluidic assay-based optical measurement techniques for cell analysis: A review of recent progress. Biosens Bioelectron 2016; 77:227-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2015.07.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2015] [Revised: 07/28/2015] [Accepted: 07/29/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Combariza ME, Yu X, Nesbitt WS, Mitchell A, Tovar-Lopez FJ. Nonlinear Dynamic Modelling of Platelet Aggregation via Microfluidic Devices. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2015; 62:1718-27. [DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2015.2403266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Skommer J, Wlodkowic D. Successes and future outlook for microfluidics-based cardiovascular drug discovery. Expert Opin Drug Discov 2015; 10:231-44. [PMID: 25672221 DOI: 10.1517/17460441.2015.1001736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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INTRODUCTION The greatest advantage of using microfluidics as a platform for the assessment of cardiovascular drug action is its ability to finely regulate fluid flow conditions, including flow rate, shear stress and pulsatile flow. At the same time, microfluidics provide means for modifying the vessel geometry (bifurcations, stenoses, complex networks), the type of surface of the vessel walls, and for patterning cells in 3D tissue-like architecture, including generation of lumen walls lined with cells and heart-on-a-chip structures for mimicking ventricular cardiomyocyte physiology. In addition, owing to the small volume of required specimens, microfluidics is ideally suited to clinical situations whereby monitoring of drug dosing or efficacy needs to be coupled with minimal phlebotomy-related drug loss. AREAS COVERED In this review, the authors highlight potential applications for the currently existing and emerging technologies and offer several suggestions on how to close the development cycle of microfluidic devices for cardiovascular drug discovery. EXPERT OPINION The ultimate goal in microfluidics research for drug discovery is to develop 'human-on-a-chip' systems, whereby several organ cultures, including the vasculature and the heart, can mimic complex interactions between the organs and body systems. This would provide in vivo-like pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics for drug ADMET assessment. At present, however, the great variety of available designs does not go hand in hand with their use by the pharmaceutical community.
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- Joanna Skommer
- RMIT University, School of Applied Sciences , Melbourne, VIC , Australia
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BACKGROUND Microfluidic technology emerges as a convenient route to applying automated and reliable assays in a high-throughput manner with low cost. OBJECTIVE This review aims to answer questions related to the capabilities and potential applications of microfluidic assays that can benefit the drug development process and extends an outlook on its future trends. METHODS This article reviews recent publications in the field of microfluidics, with an emphasis on novel applications for drug development. RESULTS/CONCLUSION Microfluidics affords unique capabilities in sample preparation and separation, combinatorial synthesis and array formation, and incorporating nanotechnology for more functionalities. The pharmaceutical industry, facing challenges from limited productivity and accelerated competition, can thus greatly benefit from applying new microfluidic assays in various drug development stages, from target screening and lead optimization to absorption distribution metabolism elimination and toxicity studies in preclinical evaluations, diagnostics in clinical trials and drug formulation and manufacturing process optimization.
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- Yuan Wen
- The Ohio State University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 140 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA +1 614 2926611 ; +1 614 2923769 ;
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Martins SAM, Trabuco JRC, Monteiro GA, Chu V, Conde JP, Prazeres DMF. Towards the miniaturization of GPCR-based live-cell screening assays. Trends Biotechnol 2012; 30:566-74. [PMID: 22921755 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2012.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2012] [Revised: 07/23/2012] [Accepted: 07/24/2012] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play a key role in many physiological or disease-related processes and for this reason are favorite targets of the pharmaceutical industry. Although ~30% of marketed drugs target GPCRs, their potential remains largely untapped. The discovery of new leads calls for the screening of thousands of compounds with high-throughput cell-based assays. Although microtiter plate-based high-throughput screening platforms are well established, microarray and microfluidic technologies hold potential for miniaturization, automation, and biosensor integration that may well redefine the format of GPCR screening assays. This paper reviews the latest research efforts directed to bringing microarray and microfluidic technologies into the realm of GPCR-based, live-cell screening assays.
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- Sofia A M Martins
- IBB-Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
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Westein E, de Witt S, Lamers M, Cosemans JMEM, Heemskerk JWM. Monitoring in vitro thrombus formation with novel microfluidic devices. Platelets 2012; 23:501-9. [PMID: 22873212 DOI: 10.3109/09537104.2012.709653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of mortality globally and is subject to ongoing research to improve clinical treatment. It is established that activation of platelets and coagulation are central to thrombosis, yet at different extents in the arterial and venous system. In vitro perfusion chamber technology has contributed significant knowledge on the function of platelets in the thrombotic process under shear conditions. Recent efforts to downscale this technique with a variety of microfluidic devices has opened new possibilities to study this process under precisely controlled flow conditions. Such microfluidic devices possess the capability to execute platelet function tests more quickly than current assays, while using small blood samples. Gradually becoming available to the clinic now, they may provide a new means to manage the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, although accurate validation studies still are missing. This review highlights the progress that has been made in monitoring aspects of thrombus formation using microfluidic devices.
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- Erik Westein
- Department of Biochemistry, CARIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Prabhakarpandian B, Shen MC, Pant K, Kiani MF. Microfluidic devices for modeling cell-cell and particle-cell interactions in the microvasculature. Microvasc Res 2011; 82:210-20. [PMID: 21763328 DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2011.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2011] [Revised: 06/20/2011] [Accepted: 06/24/2011] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Cell-fluid and cell-cell interactions are critical components of many physiological and pathological conditions in the microvasculature. Similarly, particle-cell interactions play an important role in targeted delivery of therapeutics to tissue. Development of in vitro fluidic devices to mimic these microcirculatory processes has been a critical step forward in our understanding of the inflammatory process, developing of nano-particulate drug carriers, and developing realistic in vitro models of the microvasculature and its surrounding tissue. However, widely used parallel plate flow based devices and assays have a number of important limitations for studying the physiological conditions in vivo. In addition, these devices are resource hungry and time consuming for performing various assays. Recently developed, more realistic, microfluidic based devices have been able to overcome many of these limitations. In this review, an overview of the fluidic devices and their use in studying the effects of shear forces on cell-cell and cell-particle interactions is presented. In addition, use of mathematical models and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based models for interpreting the complex flow patterns in the microvasculature is highlighted. Finally, the potential of 3D microfluidic devices and imaging for better representing in vivo conditions under which cell-cell and cell-particle interactions take place is discussed.
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Yeo LY, Chang HC, Chan PPY, Friend JR. Microfluidic devices for bioapplications. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2011; 7:12-48. [PMID: 21072867 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201000946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 299] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Harnessing the ability to precisely and reproducibly actuate fluids and manipulate bioparticles such as DNA, cells, and molecules at the microscale, microfluidics is a powerful tool that is currently revolutionizing chemical and biological analysis by replicating laboratory bench-top technology on a miniature chip-scale device, thus allowing assays to be carried out at a fraction of the time and cost while affording portability and field-use capability. Emerging from a decade of research and development in microfluidic technology are a wide range of promising laboratory and consumer biotechnological applications from microscale genetic and proteomic analysis kits, cell culture and manipulation platforms, biosensors, and pathogen detection systems to point-of-care diagnostic devices, high-throughput combinatorial drug screening platforms, schemes for targeted drug delivery and advanced therapeutics, and novel biomaterials synthesis for tissue engineering. The developments associated with these technological advances along with their respective applications to date are reviewed from a broad perspective and possible future directions that could arise from the current state of the art are discussed.
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- Leslie Y Yeo
- Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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Santos-Martínez MJ, Prina-Mello A, Medina C, Radomski MW. Analysis of platelet function: role of microfluidics and nanodevices. Analyst 2011; 136:5120-6. [DOI: 10.1039/c1an15445a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Xu T, Li CW, Yao X, Cai G, Yang M. Microfluidic formation of single cell array for parallel analysis of Ca2+ release-activated Ca2+ (CRAC) channel activation and inhibition. Anal Biochem 2010; 396:173-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2009.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2009] [Revised: 09/05/2009] [Accepted: 09/08/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Perrin D, Frémaux C, Shutes A. Capillary microfluidic electrophoretic mobility shift assays: application to enzymatic assays in drug discovery. Expert Opin Drug Discov 2009; 5:51-63. [DOI: 10.1517/17460440903493431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Inglis DW, Morton KJ, Davis JA, Zieziulewicz TJ, Lawrence DA, Austin RH, Sturm JC. Microfluidic device for label-free measurement of platelet activation. LAB ON A CHIP 2008; 8:925-31. [PMID: 18497913 DOI: 10.1039/b800721g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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In this work we demonstrate a new microfluidic method for the rapid assessment of platelet size and morphology in whole blood. The device continuously fractionates particles according to size by displacing them perpendicularly to the fluid flow direction in a micro-fabricated post array. Whole blood, labeled with the fluorescent, platelet specific, antibody PE-anti-CD41, was run through the device and the positions of fluorescent objects noted as they exited the array. From this, histograms of platelet size were created which show marked increases in size after exposure to thrombin or a temperature of 4 degrees C. We infer that the well known morphological changes that occur during activation are causing the observed increase in size.
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- David W Inglis
- Department of Physics, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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Xia Z, Cattafesta L, Fan ZH. Deconvolution microscopy for flow visualization in microchannels. Anal Chem 2007; 79:2576-82. [PMID: 17279728 DOI: 10.1021/ac062265n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Quantitative visualization of microflows is often needed to evaluate the efficiency of fluid mixing, study flow properties, investigate unusual flow behavior, and verify computational fluid dynamic simulations. In this work, we explore the technique of coupling a conventional optical microscope with a computational deconvolution algorithm to produce images of three-dimensional flows in plastic microfluidic channels. The approach, called deconvolution microscopy, is achieved by (1) optically sectioning the flow in the microchannel by collecting a series of fluorescence images at different focal planes along the optical axis and (2) removing the out-of-focus fluorescence signal by a deconvolution method to reconstruct the corrected three-dimensional concentration image. We compare three different classes of deconvolution algorithms for a uniform concentration test case and then demonstrate how deconvolution microscopy is useful for flow visualization and analysis of mixing in microfluidic channels. In particular, we employ the method to confirm the presence of twisting flows in a microchannel containing microfabricated ridges.
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- Zheng Xia
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, P.O. Box 116250, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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