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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2014
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ (US);
Woo Young Lee, Lyndhurst, NJ (US);
Yexin Gu, North Bergen, NJ (US);
Qiaoling Sun, Secaucus, NJ (US);
Wenting Zhang, Kearny, NJ (US);
Jenny Zilberberg, Yardley, PA (US);
HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, Hackensack, NJ (US);
THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Abstract
A bed of microbeads is used as a foundation for reconstructing a three-dimensional osteocyte network by culturing osteocytes within the bed. The osteocytes are cultured such that they form a network among the microbeads that is capable of simulating the osteocyte network of natural bone. The osteocytes are cultured in a microfluidic device adapted for the purpose.