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American Chemical Society, Accounts of Chemical Research, 4(47), p. 1165-1173, 2014

DOI: 10.1021/ar4002608

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Microfluidics-Based in Vivo Mimetic Systems for the Study of Cellular Biology

Journal article published in 2014 by Donghyuk Kim, Xiaojie Wu, Ashlyn T. Young, Christy L. Haynes ORCID
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Abstract

The human body is a complex network of molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, and organs: an uncountable number of interactions and transformations interconnect all the system’s components. In addition to these biochemical components, biophysical components, such as pressure, flow, and morphology, and the location of all of these interactions play an important role in the human body. Technical difficulties have frequently limited researchers from observing cellular biology as it occurs within the human body, but some state-of-the-art analytical techniques have revealed distinct cellular behaviors that occur only in the context of the interactions. These types of findings have inspired bioanalytical chemists to provide new tools to better understand these cellular behaviors and interactions.