Fujifilm Corporation

The General Hospital Corporation

Takafumi Suehiro

Koju Ito

Chihaya Kakinuma

Craig M Neville

Daichi Hikimoto

The present disclosure provides a blood vessel model including: a pair of channel members, mutually opposing each other, each of which includes an opposing face in which a respective microchannel is formed; and a porous membrane that includes plural through-holes penetrating in a thickness direction, that is disposed between the opposing faces of the pair of channel members, and that partitions between the microchannels, wherein the porous membrane is provided with a vascular endothelial cell layer so as to cover one face facing one of the microchannels, an average opening diameter of the through-holes is from 1 μm to 20 μm, and an opening coverage ratio of the through-holes is from 30% to 70%.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takafumi Suehiro