A Microfluidic Device for Culturing an Encapsulated Ovarian Follicle

• Published in: Micromachines (Basel) Vol. 8; no. 11; p. 335
• Main Authors: Aziz, Aziz Ur Rehman, Fu, Mengjie, Deng, Jiu, Geng, Chunyang, Luo, Yong, Lin, Bingcheng, Yu, Xiaohui, Liu, Bo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 20.11.2017; MDPI
• Subjects: Beads; Calcium alginate; Encapsulation; Estrogens; Genotype & phenotype; Hydrogels; microfluidics; organ on a chip; Organs; ovarian follicles; Sex hormones; organ on a chip; ovarian follicles; microfluidics

Microfluidic chips have been proved effective in mimicking different organs of human body. Simulating human ovarian follicles by microfluidic device will be useful in exploring the mechanism of folliculogenesis and related diseases. In this paper, a microfluidic chip was designed to culture a single...