Microfluidic Intestinal Organoid Chip

8× Oxygen Exchange Efficiency

The chip recapitulates rapid oxygen dynamics of intestinal IR injury, enabling identification of OLFM4 as a therapeutic target.

Huang, Jinjian · Xu, Ziyan · Chen, Jiao · Li, Zongan · Li, Sicheng · Liu, Ye · Li, Ze · Qu, Guiwen · Wu, Jie · Zhao, Yun · Chen, Kang · Li, Jieshou · Pan, Yichang · Wu, Xiuwen · Ren, Jianan

Bioactive Materials 2023

Advantages

Oxygen exchange efficiency eight times that of conventional tri-gas incubator

Intestinal organoids reproducing all types of intestinal epithelial cells

Exhibit metabolic disorder, inflammatory reaction, and cell apoptosis upon hypoxia/reoxygenation

First identification of Olfm4 as the most significantly down-regulated gene under rapid HR