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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2026

Microfluidic lung-on-a-chip for evaluating inflammation and toxicity from environmental pollutants.

Fen Zhang, Haiyang Jia, Fei Yu, Yingjie Bao, Dan Wang

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Fen ZhangSchool of Food and Bioengineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China.
Haiyang JiaSchool of Physics and New Energy, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China.
Fei YuSchool of Food and Bioengineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China.
Yingjie BaoSchool of Food and Bioengineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China.
Dan WangSchool of Food and Bioengineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Environmental pollutants pose an escalating health threat, yet traditional toxicity models are inherently limited in recapitulating complex human physiology. As an emerging organ-on-a-chip technology, microfluidic lung-on-a-chip employs microengineering approaches to precisely replicate the key structural features and dynamic physiological microenvironment of the human lung

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environmental pollutantinflammationlung-on-a-chipmicrofluidicstoxicity

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PMID42846609
PMCPMC13642813

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