Title
High-Throughput Assessment of Drug Cardiac Safety Using a High-Speed Impedance Detection Technology-Based Heart-on-a-Chip.
Abstract
Drug cardiac safety assessments play a significant role in drug discovery. Drug-induced cardiotoxicity is one of the main reasons for drug attrition, even when antiarrhythmic drugs can otherwise effectively treat the arrhythmias. Consequently, efficient drug preclinical assessments are needed in the drug industry. However, most drug efficacy assessments are performed based on electrophysiological tests of cardiomyocytes in vitro and cannot effectively provide information on drug-induced dysfunction of cardiomyocyte beating. Here we present a heart-on-a-chip device for evaluating the drug cardiac efficacy using a high-speed impedance detection technology. Verapamil and doxorubicin were utilized to test this heart-on-a-chip, and multiple parameters of cardiomyocyte beating status are used to reveal the effects of drugs. The results show that drug efficacy or cardiotoxicity can be determined by this heart-on-a-chip. We believe this heart-on-a-chip will be a promising tool for the preclinical assessment of drug cardiac efficacy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/mi7070122
MICROMACHINES
Keywords
Field
DocType
heart-on-a-chip,impedance detection technology,drug cardiac efficacy,high throughput assessment
Drug discovery,Cardiotoxicity,Pharmacology,Intensive care medicine,Electronic engineering,Verapamil,Drug,Materials science,Efficacy
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
7
2072-666X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xi Zhang1152.01
Tianxing Wang200.34
Ping Wang31012.69
Ning Hu400.34