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Mechanical Induction of Osteoarthritis Traits in a Cartilage-on-a-Chip Model.

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The present lack of effective therapies for osteoarthritis, the most diffused musculoskeletal disease, correlates with the absence of representative in vitro disease models. Microfabrication techniques and soft lithography allow the… Click to show full abstract

The present lack of effective therapies for osteoarthritis, the most diffused musculoskeletal disease, correlates with the absence of representative in vitro disease models. Microfabrication techniques and soft lithography allow the development of organs and tissues on chip with increased mimicry of human pathophysiology. Exploitation of polydimethylsiloxane elasticity, furthermore, permits to incorporate finely controlled mechanical actuators which are of the utmost importance in a faithful representation of the intrinsically active environment of musculoskeletal districts, to increase our comprehension of the disease onset and to successfully predict the response to pharmacological therapies. Here, we portray the fabrication and operational processes for the development of a cartilage-on-a-chip model. Additionally, we describe the methodologies to induce a phenotype reminiscent of osteoarthritis solely through hyperphysiological cyclic compression. The techniques to assess achievement of such features through immunofluorescence and gene expression are also detailed.

Keywords: cartilage chip; osteoarthritis; chip model; mechanical induction; chip

Journal Title: Methods in molecular biology
Year Published: 2022

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