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Volume 4 Supplement 1

Stem cells on bioengineered microphysiological platforms for disease modeling and drug testing

Reviews

Edited by Rocky S Tuan and Timothy O'Brien

Publication of this supplement has not been supported by sponsorship. Articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process. The Editors declare that they have no competing interests.

  1. The National Institutes of Health has partnered with the US Food and Drug Administration and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to accelerate the development of human microphysiological systems (MPS...

    Authors: Margaret L Sutherland, Kristin M Fabre and Danilo A Tagle

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):I1

    Content type: Introduction

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  3. The discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in 2006 was a major breakthrough for regenerative medicine. The establishment of patient-specific iPSCs has created the opportunity to model diseases in ...

    Authors: Zongyou Guo, Claire A Higgins, Brian M Gillette, Munenari Itoh, Noriko Umegaki, Karl Gledhill, Samuel K Sia and Angela M Christiano

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S2

    Content type: Review

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  4. Researchers need an available and easy-to-use model of the human intestine to better understand human intestinal physiology and pathophysiology of diseases, and to offer an enhanced platform for developing dru...

    Authors: Olga Kovbasnjuk, Nicholas C Zachos, Julie In, Jennifer Foulke-Abel, Khalil Ettayebi, Joseph M Hyser, James R Broughman, Xi-Lei Zeng, Sabine Middendorp, Hugo R de Jonge, Mary K Estes and Mark Donowitz

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S3

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  5. This project aims to establish and characterize an in vitro model of the developing human brain for the purpose of testing drugs and chemicals. To accurately assess risk, a model needs to recapitulate the complex...

    Authors: Helena T Hogberg, Joseph Bressler, Kimberly M Christian, Georgina Harris, Georgia Makri, Cliona O'Driscoll, David Pamies, Lena Smirnova, Zhexing Wen and Thomas Hartung

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S4

    Content type: Review

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  6. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Barrett's esophagus (BE), graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), and inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are common human gastrointesti...

    Authors: Kira G Hartman, James D Bortner Jr, Gary W Falk, Jian Yu, Martín G Martín, Anil K Rustgi and John P Lynch

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S5

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  7. Osteoarthritis (OA), the most prevalent form of arthritis, affects up to 15% of the adult population and is principally characterized by degeneration of the articular cartilage component of the joint, often wi...

    Authors: Thomas P Lozito, Peter G Alexander, Hang Lin, Riccardo Gottardi, Anthony Wai-Ming Cheng and Rocky S Tuan

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S6

    Content type: Review

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  8. Detailed studies of lung pathology in patients during the course of development of acute lung injury or respiratory distress are limited, and in the past information related to lung-specific responses has been...

    Authors: Joan E Nichols, Jean A Niles, Stephanie P Vega and Joaquin Cortiella

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S7

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  9. Our project team is developing an integrated microphysiological platform with functionally connected vascular, liver and cardiac microtissues derived from a single line of human pluripotent stem cells. The pla...

    Authors: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Sangeeta Bhatia, Christopher Chen and Karen Hirschi

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S8

    Content type: Review

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  10. A multiorgan, functional, human in vitro assay system or 'Body-on-a-Chip' would be of tremendous benefit to the drug discovery and toxicology industries, as well as providing a more biologically accurate model fo...

    Authors: Alec ST Smith, Christopher J Long, Bonnie J Berry, Christopher McAleer, Maria Stancescu, Peter Molnar, Paula G Miller, Mandy B Esch, Jean-Matthieu Prot, James J Hickman and Michael L Shuler

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S9

    Content type: Review

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  11. Microphysiological systems provide a tool to simulate normal and pathological function of organs for prolonged periods. These systems must incorporate the key functions of the individual organs and enable inte...

    Authors: George A Truskey, Hardean E Achneck, Nenad Bursac, Hon Fai Chan, Cindy S Cheng, Cristina Fernandez, Sungmin Hong, Youngmee Jung, Tim Koves, William E Kraus, Kam Leong, Lauran Madden, William M Reichert and Xuanhe Zhao

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S10

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  12. The vast majority of cancer mortalities result from distant metastases. The metastatic microenvironment provides unique protection to ectopic tumors as the primary tumors often respond to specific agents. Alth...

    Authors: Sarah E Wheeler, Jeffrey T Borenstein, Amanda M Clark, Mohammad R Ebrahimkhani, Ira J Fox, Linda Griffith, Walker Inman, Douglas Lauffenburger, Transon Nguyen, Venkateswaran C Pillai, Rachelle Prantil-Baun, Donna B Stolz, Donald Taylor, Theresa Ulrich, Raman Venkataramanan, Alan Wells…

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S11

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  13. A lack of affordable and effective testing and screening procedures mean surprisingly little is known about the health hazards of many of the tens of thousands of chemicals in use in the world today. The recen...

    Authors: Zhonggang Hou, Jue Zhang, Michael P Schwartz, Ron Stewart, C David Page, William L Murphy and James A Thomson

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S12

    Content type: Review

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  14. The female reproductive tract produces hormones for reproductive function and cardiovascular, bone and sexual health; the tract supplies a finite number of gametes, and it supports fetal development. Diseases ...

    Authors: Monica M Laronda, Joanna E Burdette, J Julie Kim and Teresa K Woodruff

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S13

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  15. Drug discovery and development to date has relied on animal models, which are useful but are often expensive, slow, and fail to mimic human physiology. The discovery of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cel...

    Authors: Anurag Mathur, Peter Loskill, SoonGweon Hong, Jae Young Lee, Sivan G Marcus, Laure Dumont, Bruce R Conklin, Holger Willenbring, Luke P Lee and Kevin E Healy

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S14

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  16. Cancer and cardiovascular disease remain the two leading causes of death in the United States. Progress in treatment to reduce morbidity and mortality will include the development of new drugs. Recent advances...

    Authors: Monica Moya, David Tran and Steven C George

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S15

    Content type: Review

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  17. Although the process of drug development requires efficacy and toxicity testing in animals prior to human testing, animal models have limited ability to accurately predict human responses to xenobiotics and ot...

    Authors: Abhinav Bhushan, Nina Senutovitch, Shyam S Bale, William J McCarty, Manjunath Hegde, Rohit Jindal, Inna Golberg, O Berk Usta, Martin L Yarmush, Lawrence Vernetti, Albert Gough, Ahmet Bakan, Tong Ying Shun, Richard Biasio and D Lansing Taylor

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S16

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  18. Kidney disease is a public health problem that affects more than 20 million people in the US adult population, yet little is understood about the impact of kidney disease on drug disposition. Consequently ther...

    Authors: Edward J Kelly, Zhican Wang, Jenna L Voellinger, Cathy K Yeung, Danny D Shen, Kenneth E Thummel, Ying Zheng, Giovanni Ligresti, David L Eaton, Kimberly A Muczynski, Jeremy S Duffield, Thomas Neumann, Anna Tourovskaia, Mark Fauver, Greg Kramer, Elizabeth Asp…

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S17

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  19. The blood-brain barrier (BBB) dynamically controls exchange between the brain and the body, but this interaction cannot be studied directly in the intact human brain or sufficiently represented by animal model...

    Authors: Donald J Alcendor, Frank E Block III, David E Cliffel, John Scott Daniels, Kate LJ Ellacott, Cody R Goodwin, Lucas H Hofmeister, Deyu Li, Dmitry A Markov, Jody C May, Lisa J McCawley, BethAnn McLaughlin, John A McLean, Kevin D Niswender, Virginia Pensabene, Kevin T Seale…

    Citation: Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2013 4(Suppl 1):S18

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