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ArticleMicromachines2021

Design and Fabrication of Low-Cost Microfluidic Chips and Microfluidic Routing System for Reconfigurable Multi-(Organ-on-a-Chip) Assembly.

Sadeq Abu-Dawas, Hawra Alawami, Mohammed Zourob, Qasem Ramadan

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Article in Micromachines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Targeted Cancer Therapy-on-A-Chip.Advanced healthcare materials · 2024
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  11. Organ-On-A-Chip: A Survey of Technical Results and Problems.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sadeq Abu-DawasCollege of Science and General Studies, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-3973-770X
Hawra AlawamiCollege of Science and General Studies, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed ZourobCollege of Science and General Studies, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-2187-1430
Qasem RamadanCollege of Science and General Studies, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-1879-2221

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A low-cost, versatile, and reconfigurable fluidic routing system and chip assembly have been fabricated and tested. The platform and its accessories were fabricated in-house without the need for costly and specialized equipment nor specific expertise. An agarose-based artificial membrane was integrated into the chips and employed to test the chip-to-chip communication in various configurations. Various chip assemblies were constructed and tested which demonstrate the versatile utility of the fluidic routing system that enables the custom design of the chip-to-chip communication and the possibility of fitting a variety of (organ-on-a-chip)-based biological models with multicell architectures. The reconfigurable chip assembly would enable selective linking/isolating the desired chip/compartment, hence allowing the study of the contribution of specific cell/tissue within the in vitro models.

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assemblyconfigurablemicrofluidicsorgan-on-a-chip

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PMID34945392
PMCPMC8707086

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