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1The Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2The Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell (RMSC) Research Center,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 3The Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 4The Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute,Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 5Division of Micro and Nanosystems,KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 6AIMES, Department of Neuroscience,Karolinska Institutet
Chapters
- 00:05Introduction
- 01:27Seeding the “Brain Side” Channel and Differentiating EZ Spheres into Mixed Neural Cultures
- 03:04Seeding iBMECs (iPSC-Derived Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells) into the Bottom Channel to Generate the “Blood Side”
- 05:27Initiation of Flow
- 08:12Results: Immunocytochemistry and Permeability of the iPSC-Base Blood-Brain Barrier Chip
- 09:17Conclusion
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a multicellular neurovascular unit tightly regulating brain homeostasis. By combining human iPSCs and organ-on-chip technologies, we have generated a personalized BBB chip, suitable for disease modeling and CNS drug penetrability predictions. A detailed protocol is described for the generation and operation of the BBB chip.
