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. 2020 Mar 25;14:194. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00194

TABLE 3.

Comparison of our microfluidic devices with those of previous studies.

Neuron device Modified boyden Nerve organoid device
Company Xona Microfluidics Corning Jiksak Bioengineering
Dimension 2 D 2 D 3 D (axon bundle)
Cell type Primary mouse motor neuron Primary mouse motor neuron iPSCs derived motor neuron
Pore size 1∼3 um 3 um 150∼200 um
Axon length 150 um NA 10,000 μm (1 cm)
Retrievable neurons ∼10*3 5 × 10*5 10*4-
RNA 20 pg- 0.3 ng/μl 12 ng (l ng/μl) -
References Briese et al., 2016; Bigler et al., 2017; Nijssen et al., 2018, etc. Rotem et al., 2017; Maciel et al., 2018, etc. Akiyama et al., 2019; Kawada et al., 2017