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ReviewAdvanced drug delivery reviews2019

Progress, obstacles, and limitations in the use of stem cells in organ-on-a-chip models.

Alexa Wnorowski, Huaxiao Yang, Joseph C Wu

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Review in Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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66citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Organ-on-a-chip toxicology.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2026
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  11. The Therapeutic Scope of Orofacial Mesenchymal Stem Cells.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alexa WnorowskiStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford, CA 94305, United States; Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University Schools of Engineering and Medicine, Stanford, CA 943055, United States.
Huaxiao YangStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford, CA 94305, United States.
Joseph C WuStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford, CA 94305, United States; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, United States; Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, United States. Electronic address: joewu@stanford.edu.

Funding

Elucidating Mechanism of Cardiac Fibrosis with Cell Village of Pooled Human iPSCsR01HL130020 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Ronglih Liao, MARK MERCOLA · 2016 to 2026
$7.3M
Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Disease ModelingR01HL113006 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WU, JOSEPH C. · 2012 to 2025
$6.8M
A Systems Biology Approach to Study Cardiac Arrhythmias: iPS Cells and In Silico ModelingR01HL128170 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ALTMAN, RUSS BIAGIO, CLANCY, COLLEEN E · 2015 to 2018
$3.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL113006NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL128170NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL130020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, drug development costs have soared, primarily due to the failure of preclinical animal and cell culture models, which do not directly translate to human physiology. Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) is a burgeoning technology with the potential to revolutionize disease modeling, drug discovery, and toxicology research by strengthening the relevance of culture-based models while reducing costly animal studies. Although OOC models can incorporate a variety of tissue sources, the most robust and relevant OOC models going forward will include stem cells. In this review, we will highlight the benefits of stem cells as a tissue source while considering current limitations to their complete and effective implementation into OOC models.

Indexed as

Stem CellsAnimalsHumansTissue Engineering3D cultureCell cultureDifferentiationEmbryonic stem cellsInduced pluripotent stem cellsMicrofluidicsOrgan-on-a-chip

Identifiers

PMID29885330
PMCPMC6281815

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