Title :
Microfluidic circulatory system for the raise of liver urea assay
Author :
Chen, Yu-Shih ; Dai, Tzu-Hsuan ; Ke, Ling-Yi ; Liu, Cheng-Hsien
Author_Institution :
Inst. of NanoEngineering & Microsyst., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
In this research, we propose an in vitro liver circulatory system via the concept of cell pattern technology and microfluidic system. Liver lobule structure in our body consisted of several blood vessel and hepatic tissue. The fluid direction of blood would get in from hepatic portal vein, liver lobule tissue to the hepatic central vein. Hence, in order to mimic the liver circular system in vitro, a connected microchannel system is proposed in this research. This connected system consisted of three parts of channel design, blood vessel chamber, Lobule-flow-mimic channel and liver tissue chamber. Liver circulatory system chip is consisted of blood vessel chamber and liver tissue chamber via dielectrophoresis pattern method and microfluidic channel design.
Keywords :
bioMEMS; biological tissues; blood vessels; cellular biophysics; electrophoresis; haemodynamics; haemorheology; liver; microchannel flow; Lobule-flow-mimic channel; blood flow; blood vessel chamber; cell pattern technology; dielectrophoresis pattern method; hepatic central vein; hepatic portal vein; hepatic tissue; liver lobule structure; liver tissue chamber; liver urea assay; microchannel system; microfluidic channel design; microfluidic circulatory system; Liver; Microfluidics; Nanoelectromechanical systems; Liver Urea Assay; Microfluidics Circulatory System; cell pattern;
Conference_Titel :
Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), 2012 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1122-9
DOI :
10.1109/NEMS.2012.6196832