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公开(公告)号:US11141727B2
公开(公告)日:2021-10-12
申请号:US15647831
申请日:2017-07-12
申请人: EMULATE, Inc.
发明人: Daniel Levner , Josiah Daniel Sliz , Christopher David Hinojosa , Joshua Gomes , Kyung Jin Jang
摘要: Methods of removing bubbles from a microfluidic device are described where the flow is not stopped. Methods are described that combine pressure and flow to remove bubbles from a microfluidic device. Bubbles can be removed even where the device is made of a polymer that is largely gas impermeable.
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公开(公告)号:US11065620B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-20
申请号:US15647762
申请日:2017-07-12
申请人: EMULATE, Inc.
发明人: Daniel Levner , Josiah Daniel Sliz , Christopher David Hinojosa , Joshua Gomes , Kyung Jin Jang
摘要: Methods of removing bubbles from a microfluidic device are described where the flow is not stopped. Methods are described that combine pressure and flow to remove bubbles from a microfluidic device. Bubbles can be removed even where the device is made of a polymer that is largely gas impermeable.
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公开(公告)号:US11059041B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-13
申请号:US17024221
申请日:2020-09-17
申请人: EMULATE, Inc.
发明人: S. Jordan Kerns , Riccardo Barrile , Geraldine Hamilton , Catherine Karalis , Daniel Levner , Carolina Lucchesi , Antonio Varone , Remi Villenave
摘要: An in vitro microfluidic “organ-on-chip” is described herein that mimics the structure and at least one function of specific areas of the epithelial system in vivo. In particular, a multicellular, layered, microfluidic culture is described, allowing for interactions between lamina propria-derived cells and the associated tissue specific epithelial cells and endothelial cells. This in vitro microfluidic system can be used for modeling inflammatory tissue, e.g., autoimmune disorders involving epithelia and diseases involving epithelial layers. These multicellular, layered microfluidic “organ-on-chip”, e.g. “epithelia-on-chip” further allow for comparisons between types of epithelia tissues, e.g., lung (Lung-On-Chip), bronchial (Airway-On-Chip), skin (Skin-On-Chip), cervix (Cervix-On-Chip), blood brain barrier (BBB-On-Chip), etc., in additional to neurovascular tissue, (Brain-On-Chip), and between different disease states of tissue, i.e. healthy, pre-disease and diseased areas. Additionally, these microfluidic “organ-on-chips” allow identification of cells and cellular derived factors driving disease states in addition to drug testing for reducing inflammation effecting epithelial regions.
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公开(公告)号:US10908171B2
公开(公告)日:2021-02-02
申请号:US15648000
申请日:2017-07-12
申请人: Emulate Inc.
发明人: Daniel Levner , Christopher David Hinojosa , Norman Wen , Jacob Fraser , Justin Nguyen , Riccardo Barrile , Geraldine Hamilton , Catherine Karalis , Hyoungshin Park , Antonio Varone , Andries Van der Meer , Monicah Otieno , David Conegliano
摘要: Compositions, devices and methods are described for preventing, reducing, controlling or delaying adhesion, adsorption, surface-mediated clot formation, or coagulation in a microfluidic device or chip. In one embodiment, blood (or other fluid with blood components) that contains anticoagulant is introduced into a microfluidic device comprising one or more additive channels containing one or more reagents that will re-activate the native coagulation cascade in the blood that makes contact with it “on-chip” before moving into the experimental region of the chip.
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公开(公告)号:US10828638B2
公开(公告)日:2020-11-10
申请号:US15819435
申请日:2017-11-21
申请人: EMULATE, Inc.
发明人: S. Jordan Kerns , Riccardo Barrile , Geraldine Hamilton , Catherine Karalis , Daniel Levner , Carolina Lucchesi , Antonio Varone , Remi Villenave
摘要: An in vitro microfluidic “organ-on-chip” is described herein that mimics the structure and at least one function of specific areas of the epithelial system in vivo. In particular, a multicellular, layered, microfluidic culture is described, allowing for interactions between lamina propria-derived cells and the associated tissue specific epithelial cells and endothelial cells. This in vitro microfluidic system can be used for modeling inflammatory tissue, e.g., autoimmune disorders involving epithelia and diseases involving epithelial layers. These multicellular, layered microfluidic “organ-on-chip”, e.g. “epithelia-on-chip” further allow for comparisons between types of epithelia tissues, e.g., lung (Lung-On-Chip), bronchial (Airway-On-Chip), skin (Skin-On-Chip), cervix (Cervix-On-Chip), blood brain barrier (BBB-On-Chip), etc., in additional to neurovascular tissue, (Brain-On-Chip), and between different disease states of tissue, i.e. healthy, pre-disease and diseased areas. Additionally, these microfluidic “organ-on-chips” allow identification of cells and cellular derived factors driving disease states in addition to drug testing for reducing inflammation effecting epithelial regions.
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公开(公告)号:US20200270582A1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-27
申请号:US16454753
申请日:2019-06-27
申请人: EMULATE, INC.
发明人: Kyung-Jin Jang , Hyoungshin Park , Sauveur Jeanty , Janey Ronxhi , Sushma jadalannagari , Geraldine A. Hamilton , Catherine Karalis
摘要: The present invention relates to microfluidic fluidic devices, methods and systems as microfluidic kidney on-chips, e.g. human Proximal Tubule-Kidney-Chip, Glomerulus (Kidney)-Chip, Collecting Duct (Kidney)-Chip. Devices, methods and systems are described for drug testing including drug transport and renal clearance. Further, such devices, methods and systems are used for determining drug-drug interactions and their effect upon renal transporter functions. Importantly, they may be used for pre-clinical and clinical drug development for treating kidney diseases and for personalized medicine.
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公开(公告)号:US10519410B2
公开(公告)日:2019-12-31
申请号:US16221681
申请日:2018-12-17
申请人: EMULATE, Inc.
发明人: Christopher David Hinojosa , Guy Robert Thompson, II , Joshua Gomes , Jacob Freake , Doug Sabin
IPC分类号: G01N1/00 , C12M3/06 , B01L3/00 , C12M1/00 , C12M1/42 , C12M1/34 , C12N5/071 , A01N1/02 , C12M3/00 , C12M1/36 , B01L9/00
摘要: A perfusion manifold assembly is described that allows for perfusion of a microfluidic device, such as an organ on a chip microfluidic device comprising cells that mimic cells in an organ in the body, that is detachably linked with said assembly so that fluid enters ports of the microfluidic device from a fluid reservoir, optionally without tubing, at a controllable flow rate.A culture module is contemplated that allows the perfusion and optionally mechanical actuation of one or more microfluidic devices, such as organ-on-a-chip microfluidic devices comprising cells that mimic at least one function of an organ in the body.
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公开(公告)号:US10335788B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-02
申请号:US15647800
申请日:2017-07-12
申请人: EMULATE, Inc.
发明人: Daniel Levner , Josiah Daniel Sliz , Christopher David Hinojosa , Joshua Gomes , Kyung Jin Jang
摘要: Methods of removing bubbles from a microfluidic device are described where the flow is not stopped. Methods are described that combine pressure and flow to remove bubbles from a microfluidic device. Bubbles can be removed even where the device is made of a polymer that is largely gas impermeable.
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公开(公告)号:US20190169557A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-06
申请号:US16226229
申请日:2018-12-19
申请人: EMULATE, Inc.
发明人: Daniel Levner , Josiah Daniel Sliz , Christopher David Hinojosa , Guy Robert Thompson, II , Petrus Wilhelmus Martinus van Ruijven , Matthew Daniel Solomon , Christian Alexander Potzner , Patrick Sean Tuohy , Joshua Gomes , Norman Wen , Jacob Freake , Doug Sabin
IPC分类号: C12M3/06 , C12M1/00 , B01L9/00 , A01N1/02 , C12M1/42 , C12M1/34 , B01L3/00 , C12M3/00 , C12N5/071 , C12M1/36
摘要: A perfusion manifold assembly is described that allows for perfusion of a microfluidic device, such as an organ on a chip microfluidic device comprising cells that mimic cells in an organ in the body, that is detachably linked with said assembly so that fluid enters ports of the microfluidic device from a fluid reservoir, optionally without tubing, at a controllable flow rate.Drop-to-drop connection schemes are described for putting a microfluidic device in fluidic communication with a fluid source or another microfluidic device, including but not limited to, putting a microfluidic device in fluidic communication with the perfusion manifold assembly.
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公开(公告)号:US20190009270A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-10
申请号:US16130498
申请日:2018-09-13
发明人: Dan GAZIT , Gadi PELLED , Zulma GAZIT , Dmitriy SHEYN , Christopher David Hinojosa , Norman Wen , Geraldine Hamilton
IPC分类号: B01L3/00 , G01T1/164 , G01T1/29 , A61K51/02 , A61K49/00 , C12N5/074 , C12N5/071 , C12N5/0775
摘要: Microfluidic “organ-on-a-chip” devices have been developed with the aim to replicate human tissues in vitro. However, there is no option to quantitatively monitor biological processes that take place within the chip, over time. Destructive methods in order to analyze, tissue formation, gene expression, protein secretion etc. require the harvest of the “tissue” at a certain time point. Described herein are methods and compositions for non-destructive molecular imaging methods and systems in order to quantitatively monitor specific biological processes, over time, within the chip, without the need to harvest.
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