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Fluidic Devices
Fluidic Devices
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Micro-fluidic devices and Technology for Medicine    2
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Micro-fluidic devices and Technology for Medicine
Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that can execute chemical analysis on very small amounts of fluids (for instance blood). Lab-on-a-chip equipment often uses microfluidic technology, providing earlier, more cost-effective sickness detection or lots of other uses from surveillance to treatment. The microfluidic market is expected to flourish (Hira and Yoshioka, 2007). According to a report by Grand View Research, the market was valued at US$2.2 billion in 2015 as well as is predicted to develop at a compound yearly development rate of 18.3% by 2024. "The key concept related to microfluidics is to be integrated into simple microsystem operations that usually require an entire laboratory (NAGAI and FURUTANI, 2020).
Figure 1: Computerised model of external lungs
A report also provided by the WHO shows that respiratory diseases have brought an immersive wellbeing burden to the world, ranking first among the top five major causes of death in Australia. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), ranked fifth, is characterized by irreversible and abnormal lung function, affecting 65 million people globally (Sahli, Gelin and Barriere, 2013). In addition, the inability to study the complexity of multiple organs in vitro limits the growth of new drug therapies for chronic lung diseases and the recognition of particular biomarkers. Being able to recognize this situation will help accelerate and develop new drugs for the treatment of COPD. Therefore, to meet this challenge, microfluidic devices are used; especially the organs on the chip can be used to generate "small airways on a human lung chip (Hira and Yoshioka, 2007).
In principle, the process of producing organs on different chips is the same (12). The organ on the chip is a 3D cell culture microfluidic device, which contains continuously perfused micron-scale channels arranged by living human cells (5). These devices are designed to reproduce the multi-cell structure, the physical and chemical microenvironment, and the key functions of living organs on computer chips, thereby enabling scientists to study physiological behaviors and mechanisms.
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