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ReviewPharmaceutics2018

In Vitro Immune Organs-on-Chip for Drug Development: A Review.

Aya Shanti, Jeremy Teo, Cesare Stefanini

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing 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

31 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Engineering the Immune Response to Biomaterials.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  8. Advances in the Model Structure of In Vitro Vascularized Organ-on-a-Chip.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2024
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  11. Engineering complexity in human tissue models of cancer.Advanced drug delivery reviews · 2022
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  14. Human microphysiological models of airway and alveolar epithelia.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2021
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  17. Fighting microbial pathogens by integrating host ecosystem interactions and evolution.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2021
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  20. Prenatal Development and Function of Human Mononuclear Phagocytes.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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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.

Aya ShantiDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, P.O. Box 127788, UAE. aya.shanti@ku.ac.ae.
Jeremy TeoDivision of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, P.O. Box 129188, UAE. jeremy.teo@nyu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6869-3833
Cesare StefaniniHealthcare Engineering Innovation Center, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, P.O. Box 127788, UAE. cesare.stefanini@ku.ac.ae.

Funding

the ADEK Award for Research Excellence (AARE) 2017 AARE17-261, Biomimetic Lymph Node for Pharmaceutical Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current drug development practice lacks reliable and sensitive techniques to evaluate the immunotoxicity of drug candidates, i.e., their effect on the human immune system. This, in part, has resulted in a high attrition rate for novel drugs candidates. Organ-on-chip devices have emerged as key tools that permit the study of human physiology in controlled in vivo simulating environments. Furthermore, there has been a growing interest in developing the so called "body-on-chip" devices to better predict the systemic effects of drug candidates. This review describes existing biomimetic immune organs-on-chip, highlights their physiological relevance to drug development and discovery and emphasizes the need for developing comprehensive immune system-on-chip models. Such immune models can enhance the performance of novel drug candidates during clinical trials and contribute to reducing the high attrition rate as well as the high cost associated with drug development.

Indexed as

biomimicrydrug developmentdrug discoveryimmune systemin vitroorgan-on-chip

Identifiers

PMID30558264
PMCPMC6320867

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