Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

A bioengineering perspective on modelling the intestinal epithelial physiology in vitro

  • Maria Antfolk,
  • Kim B. Jensen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20052-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Maria Antfolk and Kim Jensen discuss how to model intestinal epithelial cell function in the dish and how various physiologically important environmental conditions, for example, extracellular matrix, pressure and flow, can be modelled and how this is applicable to clinical work.