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 |