Validation of an adipose-liver human-on-a-chip model of NAFLD for preclinical therapeutic efficacy evaluation

Abstract Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease and strongly correlates with the growing incidence of obesity and type II diabetes. We have developed a human-on-a-chip model composed of human hepatocytes and adipose tissue chambers capable of modeling the metabolic...

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Main Authors: Victoria L. Slaughter, John W. Rumsey, Rachel Boone, Duaa Malik, Yunqing Cai, Narasimhan Narasimhan Sriram, Christopher J. Long, Christopher W. McAleer, Stephen Lambert, Michael L. Shuler, J. J. Hickman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92264-2