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Title
Development of an Ultrasound-transparent Organ-on-chip Platform Towards Modeling Bubble-assisted Focused Ultrasound (BAFUS) Blood-brain-barrier (BBB) Disruption for Glioblastoma Therapy
Description
The blood-brain-barrier (BBB) is a significant obstacle for treating many neurological disorders. Bubble-assisted focused ultrasound (BAFUS) medicated BBB disruption is a promising technology that enables the delivery of large drug doses at targeted locations across the BBB. However, the current lack of an in vitro model of this process hinders the full understanding of BAFUS BBB disruption for better translation into clinics. In this work, a US-transparent organ-on-chip device has been fabricated that can be critical for the in vitro modeling of the BAFUS BBB disruption. The transparency of the device window to focused ultrasound (FUS) was calculated theoretically and demonstrated by experiments. Nanobubbles were fabricated, characterized by cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM), and showed bubble cavitation under FUS. Human colorectal adenocarcinoma (Caco-2) cells were used to form a good cellular barrier for BAFUS barrier disruption, as suggested by the measured permeability and transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER). Finally, barrier disruption and recovery were observed in BAFUS disrupted US-transparent organ-on-chips with Caco-2 barriers, showing great promise of the platform for future modeling BAFUS BBB disruption in vitro.
Date Created
2022
Contributors
- Akkad, Adam Rifat (Author)
- Gu, Jian (Thesis advisor)
- Nikkhah, Mehdi (Thesis advisor)
- Belohlavek, Marek (Committee member)
- Wang, Xiao (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Extent
68 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.171798
Level of coding
minimal
Cataloging Standards
Note
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2022
Field of study: Biomedical Engineering
System Created
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System Modified
- 2022-12-20 06:19:18
- 1 year 10 months ago
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