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ArticleBiomaterials science2025

Engineering blood-brain barrier microphysiological systems to model Alzheimer's disease monocyte penetration and infiltration.

Longjun Gu, Xiangdi Mao, Chunhui Tian, Yang Yang, Kaiyuan Yang, Scott G Canfield, Donghui Zhu, Mingxia Gu, Feng Guo

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Article in Biomaterials science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  4. Organoid Brain-Machine-Interface Devices for Central Nervous System Repair.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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9 authors.

Longjun GuDepartment of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. fengguo@iu.edu.
Xiangdi MaoDepartment of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. fengguo@iu.edu.
Chunhui TianDepartment of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. fengguo@iu.edu.
Yang YangDepartment of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. fengguo@iu.edu.
Kaiyuan YangDepartment of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. fengguo@iu.edu.
Scott G CanfieldStark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
Donghui ZhuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Stony Brook, 100 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3057-1889
Mingxia GuDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Feng GuoDepartment of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. fengguo@iu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9103-3235

Funding

Microphysiological systems to Advance Precision medicine for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (MAP-AD)U54AG090792 · NIA · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI Timothy I Richardson · 2025 to 2026
$9.9M
An automated portable system for detecting and treating opioid induced respiratory depressionU01DA056242 · NIDA · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI GUO, FENG, MACKIE, KENNETH · 2022 to 2024
$3.8M
An acoustofluidic avidity cytometer for massive parallel profiling single autoreactive T cell in autoimmune diseaseDP2AI160242 · NIAID · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI GUO, FENG · 2020 to 2020
$2.4M
Acquisition of a DeltaVision OMX-SR Imaging SystemS10OD024988 · OD · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI WALCZAK, CLAIRE E · 2018 to 2018
$600k
NIAID NIH HHS DP2 AI160242NIA NIH HHS U54 AG090792NIDA NIH HHS U01 DA056242NIH HHS S10 OD024988
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and neurodegenerative disease, predominantly causing dementia. Despite increasing clinical evidence suggesting the involvement of peripheral immune cells such as monocytes in AD pathology, the dynamic penetration and infiltration of monocytes crossing blood-brain barrier (BBB) and inducing neuroinflammation is largely understudied in an AD brain. Herein, we engineer BBB-like microphysiological system (BBB-MPS) models for recapitulating the dynamic penetration and infiltration of monocytes in an AD patient's brain. Each BBB-MPS model can be engineered by integrating a functional BBB-like structure on a human cortical organoid using a 3D-printed device within a well of a plate. By coculturing these BBB-MPS models with monocytes from AD patients and age-matched healthy donors, we found that AD monocytes exhibit significantly greater BBB penetration and brain infiltration compared to age-matched control monocytes. Moreover, we also tested the interventions including Minocycline and Bindarit, and found they can effectively inhibit AD monocyte infiltration, subsequently reducing neuroinflammation and neuronal apoptosis. We believe these scalable and user-friendly BBB-MPS models may hold promising potential in modeling and advancing therapeutics for neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory diseases.

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Alzheimer DiseaseBlood-Brain BarrierModels, BiologicalMonocytesHumansMicrophysiological SystemsMinocyclineMinocycline

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PMID40391576
PMCPMC12197827

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