Table 7.
Commercially available bioengineered liver models
Company | Platform | Dimensionality | Mimicked biomimetic cues |
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Hepregen | Micropatterned liver cells colonies surrounded by stromal cells | 2D | Hepatocyte–stromal cells interaction |
Miromatrix | Liver constructs based on whole-organ decellularization–recellularization | 3D | Vascularization, liver-specific ECM, hepatocyte–stromal cells interaction |
MIT (Griffith laboratory) | Microfluidic system. | 3D | Physiological shear stress. |
CellAsic | Microfluidic system | 2D | Plasma perfusion, endothelial-like barrier between liver cell layers (artificial sinusoids) |
Hurel | Microfluidic system | 2D | Plasma perfusion, liver architecture. |
RegeneMed | Porous nylon 3D interweaving nanofiber scaffold, 96-well format | 3D | 3D hepatocyte–stromal cells interaction |
InSphero | Spheroid model | 3D | 3D hepatocyte–Kupffer cell–endothelial cell interactions |