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Microfluidics in cell biology. Part A, Microfluidics for multicellular systems / edited by by Junsang Doh, Daniel Fletcher, Matthieu Piel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Methods in cell biology ; Volume 146.Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Academic Press, 2018Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0128142812
  • 9780128142813
  • 0128142804
  • 9780128142806
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 532.05 23
LOC classification:
  • TJ853.4.M53 .M537 2018
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Contents:
Front Cover -- Microfluidics in Cell Biology Part A: Microfluidics for Multicellular Systems -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Section 1: Microfluidics for cell monolayers/spheroids -- Chapter 1: Tubular microscaffolds for studying collective cell migration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Microfabrication of Microtubular Architectures for Epithelial Collective Migration Study -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Equipment -- 2.3. Methods -- 2.3.1. Fabrication of PDMS microtube -- 2.3.2. Fabrication of UV-curable polymeric microtube -- 2.3.3. Preparation of elastomeric circular microchannels -- 3. Functionalization of the Tubular Microscaffolds With Extracellular Matrix Protein and Cell Seeding -- 3.1. Materials -- 3.2. Equipment -- 3.3. Methods -- 3.3.1. Functionalization of elastomeric microtubes and seeding cells procedure -- 3.3.2. Functionalization of elastomeric circular microchannels and seeding cells procedure -- 4. 3D Imaging and Image Analysis -- 4.1. Materials -- 4.2. Equipment -- 4.3. Methods -- 4.3.1. Immunostaining of epithelia in microtubes -- 4.3.2. 3D Imaging of epithelia in microtubes -- 4.3.3. Image analysis -- 5. Discussion and Perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2: Endothelial cell monolayer-based microfluidic systems mimicking complex in vivo microenvironments for the stu -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assembly and Characterization of a Parallel-Plate Flow Chamber -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Equipment -- 2.3. Methods -- 2.3.1. Fabrication of a mechanically assembled parallel-plate flow chamber -- 2.3.2. EC culture on glass coverslips -- 2.3.3. Observation of leukocyte adhesion cascades using a parallel-plate flow chamber -- 2.3.4. Estimation of flow characteristics in a parallel-plate flow chamber -- 3. Alignment of Endothelial Monolayers Using Nanogrooved Surfaces -- 3.1. Materials -- 3.2. Equipment.
3.3. Methods -- 4. Fabrication of Stenotic Structures and Characterization of Complex Flow Patterns in Post-stenotic Regions -- 4.1. Materials -- 4.2. Equipment -- 4.3. Methods -- 4.3.1. Fabrication of a stenotic structure -- 4.3.2. Fluidic circuit assembly and flow experiment -- 4.3.3. PIV experiment -- 4.3.4. CFD simulation -- 5. Extension to 3D Blood Vessel/Inflamed Tissue Structures -- 5.1. Materials -- 5.2. Equipment -- 5.3. Methods -- 5.3.1. EC culture on porous membranes -- 5.3.2. 3D collagen gelation -- 5.3.3. Parallel-plate flow chamber assembly and flow experiment -- 6. Summary and Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3: Constrained spheroids/organoids in perfusion culture -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tethered Spheroids/Organoids -- 2.1. Materials and Reagents -- 2.2. Sticky and Soft Substrate Surfaces -- 2.3. Electrospun Nanofiber-Coated Surface -- 2.4. Forming and Culturing Tethered Spheroids -- 2.5. Characterizing Tethered Spheroids -- 2.6. Potential Pitfalls and Solutions -- 3. Physically-Constrained Spheroids/Organoids -- 3.1. Materials and Reagents -- 3.2. Track-Etched Porous Membrane -- 3.3. Microfabricated Porous Ultrathin Membranes -- 3.3.1. Conjugation of PEG and galactose (AHG) to the glass coverslips -- 3.3.2. Fabrication of porous ultrathin Parylene C membrane -- 3.4. Macroporous Soft Sponges -- 3.5. Forming and Culturing Physically-Constrained Spheroids -- 3.6. Characterizing Physically-Constrained Spheroids -- 3.7. Potential Pitfalls and Solutions -- 4. Perfusion Culture in Microfluidic Channels -- 4.1. Materials and Reagents -- 4.2. Micropillars as Spheroid Trap -- 4.3. Dynamic Traps -- 4.4. Forming and Culturing Spheroids in Microfluidic Channels -- 4.5. Characterizing Spheroids in Microfluidics Channels -- 4.6. Potential Pitfalls and Solutions -- 5. Applications -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References.
Section 2: Organs on chips -- Chapter 4: Generation of functional cardiac microtissues in a beating heart-on-a-chip -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and Equipment -- 3. Methods -- 3.1. Master Mold Fabrication -- 3.2. Beating Heart-on-a-Chip Device Fabrication -- 3.3. iPS-CM Seeding and Mechanical Stimulation -- 3.4. Cardiac Microtissue Analysis and Readout -- References -- Chapter 5: Kidney on chips -- 1. Basic Functions of the Kidney -- 1.1. Basic Renal Function and Structure -- 1.1.1. Excretion of waste products and foreign substances -- 1.1.2. Regulation of water and electrolytes -- 1.1.3. Production of hormones -- 1.1.4. Organ crosstalk: Kidney and other organs -- 2. Kidney Tubule-on-a-Chip -- 2.1. Fluid Shear Stress in Kidney-on-a-Chip -- 2.2. Development of Kidney Tubule-on-a-Chip -- 2.3. Drug Nephrotoxicity Using Kidney Tubule-on-a-Chip -- 2.4. Disease Modeling Using Kidney Tubule-on-a-Chip -- 2.4.1. Kidney stone -- 2.4.2. Kidney fibrosis -- 2.5. Examples of Tubule-on-a-Chip for Nephrotoxicity -- 2.5.1. Device fabrication -- 2.5.2. Application of human pharmacokinetic profiles -- 3. Glomerulus-on-a-Chip -- 3.1. Development of Glomerulus-on-a-Chip -- 3.2. Drug Nephrotoxicity -- 3.3. Disease Modeling -- 3.3.1. Hypertensive nephropathy -- 3.3.2. Diabetic nephropathy -- 4. Kidney Chamber in Multi-organs-on-a-Chip -- 4.1. Kidney in Multi-organs-on-a-Chips -- 4.2. Drug Pharmacokinetics -- 4.3. Organ Interaction and Disease Modeling -- 5. Future Perspective -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 6: Liver sinusoid on a chip -- 1. Introduction of Cell-Cell Interactions in Liver Sinusoidal Microenvironments -- 1.1. Architecture and Cell Composition of the Liver Sinusoids -- 1.2. Cellular Interactions in the Liver Sinusoids During Fibrosis and Inflammation -- 1.3. Sinusoidal Mechanical Microenvironments.
1.4. In Vitro Models of the Liver Sinusoids -- 2. Construction of the Liver Sinusoid Chip -- 2.1. Microfluidic Device Fabrication -- 2.2. Primary Hepatic Cell Isolation -- 2.3. Identification of Isolated Hepatic Cells -- 2.4. Chip Assembling and Characterization -- 3. Mechanical Microenvironment Analysis -- 3.1. Fluidic Dynamic Model -- 3.2. Fluid Field Visualization -- 4. Liver-Specific Functions of the Sinusoidal Chip -- 5. Hepatic Immune Response -- 5.1. Neutrophil Isolation -- 5.2. Neutrophil Recruitment in Chip -- 6. Conclusive Remarks and Future Perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7: Pathomimetic modeling of human intestinal diseases and underlying host-gut microbiome interactions in a gut-on-a-.. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Microfabrication of a Gut-on-a-Chip Device -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Equipment -- 2.3. Methods -- 3. Recreation of Intestinal Microenvironment and Physiology -- 3.1. Materials -- 3.2. Equipment -- 3.3. Methods -- 4. Recapitulation of Host-Gut Microbiome Intercellular Interactions -- 4.1. Materials -- 4.2. Methods -- 5. Pathomimetic Modeling I: Intestinal Inflammation -- 5.1. Materials -- 5.2. Equipment -- 5.3. Methods -- 6. Pathomimetic Modeling II: Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth -- 6.1. Methods -- 7. Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8: 3D in vitro microvascular model-based lymphoma model -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and Equipment -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Equipment -- 3. Methods -- 3.1. Fabrication of DLBCL-on-Chip Model -- 3.2. Endothelialization of DLBCL-on-Chip Model -- 3.3. Plasma Bonding -- 3.4. Tumor Cell Generation -- 4. Closing Remarks -- References -- Chapter 9: Blood-brain barrier on a chip -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Endogenous BBB -- 2.1. Cellular Makeup of the BBB -- 2.2. Endothelial Cells -- 2.3. Pericytes and Smooth Muscle Cells.
2.4. Astrocytes -- 2.5. Neurons -- 2.6. Microglia -- 3. Current BBB Models -- 4. BBB-on-Chip Models -- 4.1. Protocol -- 5. Considerations for Modeling the BBB on a Chip -- 5.1. Types of Cells Used -- 5.2. Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Values -- 5.3. Barrier Permeability -- 5.4. Cellular Functionality -- 5.5. Material Biocompatibility -- 5.6. Cellular Adhesion and Cell Growth -- 5.7. Fluid Flow -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Pharmacokinetic-based multi-organ chip for recapitulating organ interactions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and Equipment -- 2.1. Chip Fabrication -- 2.2. Cell Seeding and Culture on Chip -- 2.3. Evaluation of Cell Viability -- 2.4. Evaluation of Metabolites -- 2.5. Construction of PK Model -- 3. Methods -- 3.1. Chip Fabrication -- 3.2. Cell Seeding and Culture on Chip -- 3.3. Evaluation of Cell Viability -- 3.4. Evaluation of Metabolites -- 3.5. Construction of PK Model -- 4. Exemplary MATLAB Code for Liver-Tumor-Blood Chip -- 5. Final Remarks -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 11: Studying TCR T cell anti-tumor activity in a microfluidic intrahepatic tumor model -- 1. Introduction to Microfluidic Technology -- 1.1. Main Advantages of Microfluidics -- 1.2. Main Limitations of Microfluidics -- 1.3. Microfluidic Models for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy -- 2. Materials and Equipment -- 2.1. Device Fabrication and Surface Coating -- 2.2. Cell Culture and Cell Handling -- 2.3. Microfluidic Assay -- 2.4. Cell Labeling, Confocal Imaging and Data Analysis -- 3. Methods -- 3.1. Device Fabrication -- 3.2. Surface Coating of the Microchannels With PDL -- 3.3. Transduced TCR T Cells -- 3.4. Electroporated TCR T Cells -- 3.5. Monocyte Isolation -- 3.6. Cancer Cell Culture and Cancer Aggregate Formation -- 3.7. Generation of a Tumor Microenvironment in a Microfluidic Device.
Summary: Microfluidics in Cell Biology Part A: Volume 146, the latest release in the Methods in Cell Biology series, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. Unique to this updated volume are sections on Cell monolayers/spheroids, Collective migration in microtubes, Leukocyte adhesion dynamics on endothelial monolayers under flow, Constrained spheroid for perfusion culture, Cells in droplet arrays, Heart on chips, Kidney on chips, Liver on chips and hepatic immune responses, Gut on chips, 3D microvascular model-based lymphoma model, Blood brain barrier on chips, Multi-organ-on-a-chip for pharmacokinetic analysis, Cancer immunotherapy on chips, and more. Contains contributions from experts in the field from across the globe Covers a wide array of topics on both mitosis and meiosis Includes relevant, analysis based topics.
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Front Cover -- Microfluidics in Cell Biology Part A: Microfluidics for Multicellular Systems -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Section 1: Microfluidics for cell monolayers/spheroids -- Chapter 1: Tubular microscaffolds for studying collective cell migration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Microfabrication of Microtubular Architectures for Epithelial Collective Migration Study -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Equipment -- 2.3. Methods -- 2.3.1. Fabrication of PDMS microtube -- 2.3.2. Fabrication of UV-curable polymeric microtube -- 2.3.3. Preparation of elastomeric circular microchannels -- 3. Functionalization of the Tubular Microscaffolds With Extracellular Matrix Protein and Cell Seeding -- 3.1. Materials -- 3.2. Equipment -- 3.3. Methods -- 3.3.1. Functionalization of elastomeric microtubes and seeding cells procedure -- 3.3.2. Functionalization of elastomeric circular microchannels and seeding cells procedure -- 4. 3D Imaging and Image Analysis -- 4.1. Materials -- 4.2. Equipment -- 4.3. Methods -- 4.3.1. Immunostaining of epithelia in microtubes -- 4.3.2. 3D Imaging of epithelia in microtubes -- 4.3.3. Image analysis -- 5. Discussion and Perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2: Endothelial cell monolayer-based microfluidic systems mimicking complex in vivo microenvironments for the stu -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assembly and Characterization of a Parallel-Plate Flow Chamber -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Equipment -- 2.3. Methods -- 2.3.1. Fabrication of a mechanically assembled parallel-plate flow chamber -- 2.3.2. EC culture on glass coverslips -- 2.3.3. Observation of leukocyte adhesion cascades using a parallel-plate flow chamber -- 2.3.4. Estimation of flow characteristics in a parallel-plate flow chamber -- 3. Alignment of Endothelial Monolayers Using Nanogrooved Surfaces -- 3.1. Materials -- 3.2. Equipment.

3.3. Methods -- 4. Fabrication of Stenotic Structures and Characterization of Complex Flow Patterns in Post-stenotic Regions -- 4.1. Materials -- 4.2. Equipment -- 4.3. Methods -- 4.3.1. Fabrication of a stenotic structure -- 4.3.2. Fluidic circuit assembly and flow experiment -- 4.3.3. PIV experiment -- 4.3.4. CFD simulation -- 5. Extension to 3D Blood Vessel/Inflamed Tissue Structures -- 5.1. Materials -- 5.2. Equipment -- 5.3. Methods -- 5.3.1. EC culture on porous membranes -- 5.3.2. 3D collagen gelation -- 5.3.3. Parallel-plate flow chamber assembly and flow experiment -- 6. Summary and Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3: Constrained spheroids/organoids in perfusion culture -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tethered Spheroids/Organoids -- 2.1. Materials and Reagents -- 2.2. Sticky and Soft Substrate Surfaces -- 2.3. Electrospun Nanofiber-Coated Surface -- 2.4. Forming and Culturing Tethered Spheroids -- 2.5. Characterizing Tethered Spheroids -- 2.6. Potential Pitfalls and Solutions -- 3. Physically-Constrained Spheroids/Organoids -- 3.1. Materials and Reagents -- 3.2. Track-Etched Porous Membrane -- 3.3. Microfabricated Porous Ultrathin Membranes -- 3.3.1. Conjugation of PEG and galactose (AHG) to the glass coverslips -- 3.3.2. Fabrication of porous ultrathin Parylene C membrane -- 3.4. Macroporous Soft Sponges -- 3.5. Forming and Culturing Physically-Constrained Spheroids -- 3.6. Characterizing Physically-Constrained Spheroids -- 3.7. Potential Pitfalls and Solutions -- 4. Perfusion Culture in Microfluidic Channels -- 4.1. Materials and Reagents -- 4.2. Micropillars as Spheroid Trap -- 4.3. Dynamic Traps -- 4.4. Forming and Culturing Spheroids in Microfluidic Channels -- 4.5. Characterizing Spheroids in Microfluidics Channels -- 4.6. Potential Pitfalls and Solutions -- 5. Applications -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Section 2: Organs on chips -- Chapter 4: Generation of functional cardiac microtissues in a beating heart-on-a-chip -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and Equipment -- 3. Methods -- 3.1. Master Mold Fabrication -- 3.2. Beating Heart-on-a-Chip Device Fabrication -- 3.3. iPS-CM Seeding and Mechanical Stimulation -- 3.4. Cardiac Microtissue Analysis and Readout -- References -- Chapter 5: Kidney on chips -- 1. Basic Functions of the Kidney -- 1.1. Basic Renal Function and Structure -- 1.1.1. Excretion of waste products and foreign substances -- 1.1.2. Regulation of water and electrolytes -- 1.1.3. Production of hormones -- 1.1.4. Organ crosstalk: Kidney and other organs -- 2. Kidney Tubule-on-a-Chip -- 2.1. Fluid Shear Stress in Kidney-on-a-Chip -- 2.2. Development of Kidney Tubule-on-a-Chip -- 2.3. Drug Nephrotoxicity Using Kidney Tubule-on-a-Chip -- 2.4. Disease Modeling Using Kidney Tubule-on-a-Chip -- 2.4.1. Kidney stone -- 2.4.2. Kidney fibrosis -- 2.5. Examples of Tubule-on-a-Chip for Nephrotoxicity -- 2.5.1. Device fabrication -- 2.5.2. Application of human pharmacokinetic profiles -- 3. Glomerulus-on-a-Chip -- 3.1. Development of Glomerulus-on-a-Chip -- 3.2. Drug Nephrotoxicity -- 3.3. Disease Modeling -- 3.3.1. Hypertensive nephropathy -- 3.3.2. Diabetic nephropathy -- 4. Kidney Chamber in Multi-organs-on-a-Chip -- 4.1. Kidney in Multi-organs-on-a-Chips -- 4.2. Drug Pharmacokinetics -- 4.3. Organ Interaction and Disease Modeling -- 5. Future Perspective -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 6: Liver sinusoid on a chip -- 1. Introduction of Cell-Cell Interactions in Liver Sinusoidal Microenvironments -- 1.1. Architecture and Cell Composition of the Liver Sinusoids -- 1.2. Cellular Interactions in the Liver Sinusoids During Fibrosis and Inflammation -- 1.3. Sinusoidal Mechanical Microenvironments.

1.4. In Vitro Models of the Liver Sinusoids -- 2. Construction of the Liver Sinusoid Chip -- 2.1. Microfluidic Device Fabrication -- 2.2. Primary Hepatic Cell Isolation -- 2.3. Identification of Isolated Hepatic Cells -- 2.4. Chip Assembling and Characterization -- 3. Mechanical Microenvironment Analysis -- 3.1. Fluidic Dynamic Model -- 3.2. Fluid Field Visualization -- 4. Liver-Specific Functions of the Sinusoidal Chip -- 5. Hepatic Immune Response -- 5.1. Neutrophil Isolation -- 5.2. Neutrophil Recruitment in Chip -- 6. Conclusive Remarks and Future Perspectives -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7: Pathomimetic modeling of human intestinal diseases and underlying host-gut microbiome interactions in a gut-on-a-.. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Microfabrication of a Gut-on-a-Chip Device -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Equipment -- 2.3. Methods -- 3. Recreation of Intestinal Microenvironment and Physiology -- 3.1. Materials -- 3.2. Equipment -- 3.3. Methods -- 4. Recapitulation of Host-Gut Microbiome Intercellular Interactions -- 4.1. Materials -- 4.2. Methods -- 5. Pathomimetic Modeling I: Intestinal Inflammation -- 5.1. Materials -- 5.2. Equipment -- 5.3. Methods -- 6. Pathomimetic Modeling II: Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth -- 6.1. Methods -- 7. Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8: 3D in vitro microvascular model-based lymphoma model -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and Equipment -- 2.1. Materials -- 2.2. Equipment -- 3. Methods -- 3.1. Fabrication of DLBCL-on-Chip Model -- 3.2. Endothelialization of DLBCL-on-Chip Model -- 3.3. Plasma Bonding -- 3.4. Tumor Cell Generation -- 4. Closing Remarks -- References -- Chapter 9: Blood-brain barrier on a chip -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Endogenous BBB -- 2.1. Cellular Makeup of the BBB -- 2.2. Endothelial Cells -- 2.3. Pericytes and Smooth Muscle Cells.

2.4. Astrocytes -- 2.5. Neurons -- 2.6. Microglia -- 3. Current BBB Models -- 4. BBB-on-Chip Models -- 4.1. Protocol -- 5. Considerations for Modeling the BBB on a Chip -- 5.1. Types of Cells Used -- 5.2. Transendothelial Electrical Resistance Values -- 5.3. Barrier Permeability -- 5.4. Cellular Functionality -- 5.5. Material Biocompatibility -- 5.6. Cellular Adhesion and Cell Growth -- 5.7. Fluid Flow -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Pharmacokinetic-based multi-organ chip for recapitulating organ interactions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and Equipment -- 2.1. Chip Fabrication -- 2.2. Cell Seeding and Culture on Chip -- 2.3. Evaluation of Cell Viability -- 2.4. Evaluation of Metabolites -- 2.5. Construction of PK Model -- 3. Methods -- 3.1. Chip Fabrication -- 3.2. Cell Seeding and Culture on Chip -- 3.3. Evaluation of Cell Viability -- 3.4. Evaluation of Metabolites -- 3.5. Construction of PK Model -- 4. Exemplary MATLAB Code for Liver-Tumor-Blood Chip -- 5. Final Remarks -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 11: Studying TCR T cell anti-tumor activity in a microfluidic intrahepatic tumor model -- 1. Introduction to Microfluidic Technology -- 1.1. Main Advantages of Microfluidics -- 1.2. Main Limitations of Microfluidics -- 1.3. Microfluidic Models for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy -- 2. Materials and Equipment -- 2.1. Device Fabrication and Surface Coating -- 2.2. Cell Culture and Cell Handling -- 2.3. Microfluidic Assay -- 2.4. Cell Labeling, Confocal Imaging and Data Analysis -- 3. Methods -- 3.1. Device Fabrication -- 3.2. Surface Coating of the Microchannels With PDL -- 3.3. Transduced TCR T Cells -- 3.4. Electroporated TCR T Cells -- 3.5. Monocyte Isolation -- 3.6. Cancer Cell Culture and Cancer Aggregate Formation -- 3.7. Generation of a Tumor Microenvironment in a Microfluidic Device.

Microfluidics in Cell Biology Part A: Volume 146, the latest release in the Methods in Cell Biology series, continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. Unique to this updated volume are sections on Cell monolayers/spheroids, Collective migration in microtubes, Leukocyte adhesion dynamics on endothelial monolayers under flow, Constrained spheroid for perfusion culture, Cells in droplet arrays, Heart on chips, Kidney on chips, Liver on chips and hepatic immune responses, Gut on chips, 3D microvascular model-based lymphoma model, Blood brain barrier on chips, Multi-organ-on-a-chip for pharmacokinetic analysis, Cancer immunotherapy on chips, and more. Contains contributions from experts in the field from across the globe Covers a wide array of topics on both mitosis and meiosis Includes relevant, analysis based topics.

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