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. 2023 May 10;10(5):572. doi: 10.3390/bioengineering10050572

Table 2.

Substrates present in microfluidic devices to achieve the BBB cellular architecture. In the literature, porous membranes based on inert material and hydrogels can be used to mimic the extracellular matrix.

Semipermeable Porous Membrane Hydrogel References
Polycarbonate Collagen and hyaluronic acid Ahn et al. [60]
Boot et al. [61]
Brown et al. [62]
Jeong et al. [55]
Shao et al. [63]
Wang et al. [64]
Polyester Collagen Bonakdar et al. [65]
Choi et al. [66]
Falanga et al. [67]
Santa-Maria et al. [58]
Poly(D-L-lactic acid) Fibrin Mancinelli et al. [68]
Polyethylene terephthalate - Meena et al. [69]
Motallebnejad et al. [70]
Tu et al. [56]
Silicon - Hudecz et al. [71]
Mossu et al. [72]