3D In Vitro Human Organ Mimicry Devices for Drug Discovery, Development, and Assessment

Figure 8

Lung airway-on-a-chip device design and fabrication. (a) Schematic of airway lumen tissue structure. (b) Photograph of an assembled lung airway microdevice (). (c) Lung airway microdevice schematic design. (d) Exploded view of the three PMMA layers. (e) The suspended hydrogel is introduced into the middle layer. Magnified image of the device cross-section (). Reproduced (or adapted) with permission [68], ©2018, Royal Society of Chemistry.

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