%0 Journal Article
%T A silicon nanomembrane platform for the visualization of immune cell trafficking across the human blood¨Cbrain barrier under flow
%A Adrien Mossu
%A Britta Engelhardt
%A Emma Luke
%A Fabien Gosselet
%A Federica Sallusto
%A Hideaki Nishihara
%A Hung Li Chung
%A Isabelle Gruber
%A James L McGrath
%A Lucie Dehouck
%A Maria Rosito
%A Tejas Khire
%J Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
%@ 1559-7016
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0271678X18820584
%X Here we report on the development of a breakthrough microfluidic human in vitro cerebrovascular barrier (CVB) model featuring stem cell-derived brain-like endothelial cells (BLECs) and nanoporous silicon nitride (NPN) membranes (¦ÌSiM-CVB). The nanoscale thinness of NPN membranes combined with their high permeability and optical transparency makes them an ideal scaffold for the assembly of an in vitro microfluidic model of the blood¨Cbrain barrier (BBB) featuring cellular elements of the neurovascular unit (NVU). Dual-chamber devices divided by NPN membranes yield tight barrier properties in BLECs and allow an abluminal pericyte-co-culture to be replaced with pericyte-conditioned media. With the benefit of physiological flow and superior imaging quality, the ¦ÌSiM-CVB platform captures each phase of the multi-step T-cell migration across the BBB in live cell imaging. The small volume of <100£¿¦ÌL of the ¦ÌSiM-CVB will enable in vitro investigations of rare patient-derived immune cells with the human BBB. The ¦ÌSiM-CVB is a breakthrough in vitro human BBB model to enable live and high-quality imaging of human immune cell interactions with the BBB under physiological flow. We expect it to become a valuable new tool for the study of cerebrovascular pathologies ranging from neuroinflammation to metastatic cancer
%K Blood¨Cbrain barrier
%K microfluidics
%K nanoporous silicon nitride membrane
%K two-compartmental flow chamber
%K T-cell migration
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0271678X18820584