An organ-on-chip device with integrated charge sensors and recording microelectrodes

Continuous monitoring of tissue microphysiology is a key enabling feature of the organ-on-chip (OoC) approach for in vitro drug screening and disease modeling. Integrated sensing units are particularly convenient for microenvironmental monitoring. However, sensitive in vitro and real-time measurements are challenging due to the inherently...

Rapid Prototyping of Organ-on-a-Chip Devices Using Maskless Photolithography

Organ-on-a-chip (OoC) and microfluidic devices are conventionally produced using microfabrication procedures that require cleanrooms, silicon wafers, and photomasks. The prototyping stage often requires multiple iterations of design steps. A simplified prototyping process could therefore offer major advantages. Here, we describe a rapid and...

Recording Neuronal Activity On Chip with Segmented 3D Microelectrode Arrays

We present preliminary recordings on chip of three-dimensional (3D) electric neuronal activity from cultures of cortical neurons derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). The recordings were obtained through 3D microelectrode arrays (MEAs) composed of truncated, 90 μm-high Si micropyramids endowed with multiple, electrically...

Recording 3D neuronal activity on chip with segmented 3D microelectrode arrays

FET-based integrated charge sensing in a MEM organ-on-chip platform

Dual-Gate Fet-Based Charge Sensor Enhanced by In-Situ Electrode Decoration in a MEMS Organs-On-Chip Platform

Continuous monitoring of tissue microphysiology is a key enabling feature of the organ-on-chip (OoC) approach for drug screening and disease modeling. Sensing charged species in OoC tissue microenvironments is thereby essential. However, the inherently small (i.e., cm) size of OoC devices poses the challenging requirement to integrate...

Enabling actuation and sensing in organs-on-chip using electroactive polymers

Organ-on-chip (OoC) devices are in rising demand for high-throughput and low-cost development and toxico-logical screening of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, as they accurately mimic in vitro physiological conditions as in the human body. In particular, OoCs are urgently needed for screening cardiovascular drug toxicity. Physiological relevance...

A 3D microelectrode array to record neural activity at different tissue depths

In vitro study of high-level neurobiological systems requires three-dimensional (3D) neuronal cultures [1]. Meas-uring responses along all three spatial dimensions is critical to record electric activity inside 3D neuronal models, such as organoids and other 3D brain tissue constructs. However, this lies beyond the capacity of 2D microelec-trode...

Enabling actuation and sensing in organs-on-chip using electroactive polymers

•Actuation has been succesfully performed for 2h30 with no side effects nor<br/>delimination of the human tissue <br/>•0.1 % strain has been achieved during the actutaion mode, close to the<br/>strain experienced in vivo by vSMCs <br/>•0.72 V/mm sensitivity has been shown on the sensing mode <br/>•Batch fabrication and downscaling will be...

Automated Ischemic Lesion Segmentation in MRI Mouse Brain Data after Transient Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become increasingly important in ischemic stroke experiments in mice, especially because it enables longitudinal studies. Still, quantitative analysis of MRI data remains challenging mainly because segmentation of mouse brain lesions in MRI data heavily relies on time-consuming manual tracing and...

MRI Mouse Brain Data of Ischemic Lesion after Transient Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion

In this data report we make available to the community a highly variable longitudinal MRI mouse brain data set of ischemic lesion after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (tMCAo). Together with the provided semi-automated and automated segmentations, these data can be used to further improve the method proposed by Mulder et al. (2017)...

Cortical Spreading Depression Causes Unique Dysregulation of Inflammatory Pathways in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Migraine

Familial hemiplegic migraine type 1 (FHM1) is a rare monogenic subtype of migraine with aura caused by mutations in CACNA1A that encodes the α1A subunit of voltage-gated CaV2.1 calcium channels. Transgenic knock-in mice that carry the human FHM1 R192Q missense mutation (‘FHM1 R192Q mice’) exhibit an increased susceptibility to cortical spreading...

Interpreting a migraine GWAS using gene expression in healthy human brain

Migraine is a common brain disorder, with a heritability of 50%. Genome-wide association studies have identified several loci, but interpretation remains challenging. We integrated migraine GWAS data with spatial gene expression data of adult brains from the Allen Human Brain Atlas, to identify specific brain regions and molecular pathways...