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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 157, Pages -Publisher
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/60925
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Developmental Biology; Issue 157; blood brain barrier; BBB; microfluidic; organ-on-chip; OoC; neurovascular unit; NVU; iPSC; iPS cells; astrocytes; personalized medicine; precision medicine
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- Israel Science Foundation [1621/18]
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Israel [3-15647]
- California Institute for Regenerative Medicine grant [DISC1-08800]
- Sherman Family Foundation
- NIH-NINDS [1UG3NS105703]
- ALS Association [18-SI-389]
- Wallenberg Foundation [2015.0178]
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The blood brain barrier (BBB) is formed by neurovascular units (NVUs) that shield the central nervous system (CNS) from a range of factors found in the blood that can disrupt delicate brain function. As such, the BBB is a major obstacle to the delivery of therapeutics to the CNS. Accumulating evidence suggests that the BBB plays a key role in the onset and progression of neurological diseases. Thus, there is a tremendous need for a BBB model that can predict penetration of CNS-targeted drugs as well as elucidate the BBB's role in health and disease. We have recently combined organ-on-chip and induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologies to generate a BBB chip fully personalized to humans. This novel platform displays cellular, molecular, and physiological properties that are suitable for the prediction of drug and molecule transport across the human BBB. Furthermore, using patient-specific BBB chips, we have generated models of neurological disease and demonstrated the potential for personalized predictive medicine applications. Provided here is a detailed protocol demonstrating how to generate iPSC-derived BBB chips, beginning with differentiation of iPSC-derived brain microvascular endothelial cells (iBMECs) and resulting in mixed neural cultures containing neural progenitors, differentiated neurons, and astrocytes. Also described is a procedure for seeding cells into the organ chip and culturing of the BBB chips under controlled laminar flow. Lastly, detailed descriptions of BBB chip analyses are provided, including paracellular permeability assays for assessing drug and molecule permeability as well as immunocytochemical methods for determining the composition of cell types within the chip.
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