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  • A microfluidic platform for...
    Rodriguez, A D; Horowitz, L F; Castro, K; Kenerson, H; Bhattacharjee, N; Gandhe, G; Raman, A; Monnat, R J; Yeung, R; Rostomily, R C; Folch, A

    Lab on a chip, 05/2020, Letnik: 20, Številka: 9
    Journal Article

    Present approaches to assess cancer treatments are often inaccurate, costly, and/or cumbersome. Functional testing platforms that use live tumor cells are a promising tool both for drug development and for identifying the optimal therapy for a given patient, i.e. precision oncology. However, current methods that utilize patient-derived cells from dissociated tissue typically lack the microenvironment of the tumor tissue and/or cannot inform on a timescale rapid enough to guide decisions for patient-specific therapy. We have developed a microfluidic platform that allows for multiplexed drug testing of intact tumor slices cultured on a porous membrane. The device is digitally-manufactured in a biocompatible thermoplastic by laser-cutting and solvent bonding. Here we describe the fabrication process in detail, we characterize the fluidic performance of the device, and demonstrate on-device drug-response testing with tumor slices from xenografts and from a patient colorectal tumor.