Microfluidics for Medical Applications

✍ Scribed by Albert van den Berg, Loes Segerink, Paul O'Brien, Ralph Nuzzo, Joao Rocha, Xiaogang Liu, A Khademhosseinni, K. Suh, F. Wolbers, R. Meissner, D Lohse, A. M. de Jong, Shuichi Takayama, Paul Yager, L. Terstappen, H. Morgan, Gabor Kovacs, Steven Staal

• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Series: RSC nanoscience & nanotechnology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Lab-on-a-chip devices for point of care diagnostics have been present in clinics for several years now. Alongside their continual development, research is underway to bring the organs and tissue on-a-chip to the patient, amongst other medical applications of microfluidics.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive review of the latest developments in the application of microfluidics to medicine and is divided into three main sections. The first part of the book discusses the state-of-the-art in organs and tissue on a chip; the second provides a thorough background to microfluidics for medicine, and the third (and largest) section provides numerous examples of point-of-care diagnostics.

Written with students and practitioners in mind, and with contributions from the leaders in the field across the globe, this book provides a complete digest of the state-of-the-art in microfluidics medical devices and will provide a handy resource for any laboratory or clinic involved in the development or application of such devices.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Microtechnologies in the Fabrication of Fibers for Tissue Engineering; Kidney on Chip; Blood-Brain Barrier: An Overview of the Research of the Blood-Brain Barrier Using Microfluidic Devices; The Use of Microfluidic-based Neuronal Cell Cultures to Study Alzheimer's Disease; Microbubbles for Medical Applications; Magnetic Particle Actuation in Stationary Microfluidics for Integrated Lab-on-Chip Biosensors; Microfluidics for Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Microfluidic Diagnostics for Low-resource Settings: Improving Global Health without a Power Cord; Isolation and Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells; Microfluidic Impedance Cytometry for Blood Cell Analysis; Routine Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics Using Point of Care or Lab on a Chip Technology; Medimate Minilab, a Microchip Capillary Electrophoresis Self-test Platform; Subject Index