This post is from Xuan ‘Sabrina’ Pan Purpose The nanomembrane used in my experiments is expected to promote efficiency of hemodialysis (HD) for end-stage renal disease patients. The membranes, however, broke during HD for rats, and breaking membranes can lead…

As part of our work on the NSF STTR grant for our hemodialysis device, we need to develop a device to incorporate our liftoff membranes into to facilitate the fluidics. In this post (and likely, in another post later this…

This paper parallels my efforts in creating a microfluidic device that can perform co-culturing of different cell types, allow real time phase and fluorescence imaging, and perform non-invasive TEER measurement using transparent electrodes. This is almost exactly what we aimed…

An application of nanothin and highly porous (NTHP) membranes for mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) differentiation in a co-culture setting. The highlight of this article is that the NTHP membrane allows direct contact of the MSC to cardial myoblast (H9C2) while…

Introduction Permeable membranes provide a physiologically relevant cell culture substrate for in vitro study of barrier cell types, such as endothelial cells, which assume a polarized morphology with distinct apical and basolateral surfaces. Cell morphology and subsequent monolayer formation and barrier…

Here are the Vascular Interviews in comma separated value form if you want to download them. Here is what I learned or had reinforced. An arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is the preferred method for creating an easily cannulated access point to large volumetric blood flow…