We tissue-engineer in vitro, skeletal muscle consisting of aligned myofibers. To create the so-called bio-artificial muscle (BAM), human muscle progenitor cells are expanded, and a 3D construct is created by mixing the cells with a hydrogel. The cell-gel mix is cast into custom-made silicone molds
Last updated on: 08-12-2020 - 17:46
Contact: Lieven Thorrez
Organisation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)
Status: Published in peer reviewed journal
Isolation Femoral and tibial bones are isolated from 10-12 weeks old C57BL/6J mice. After cutting the bone's ends, the bone marrow is flushed out using a 23G syringe with PBS into a 50ml falcon tube. After centrifugation cells are re-suspended in FCS (0.5ml/mouse leg). Differentiation 0.5ml of the
Last updated on: 14-08-2020 - 15:26
Contact: Jerome Hendriks
Organisation: University of Hasselt (UHasselt)
Status: History of use, Internally validated, Published in peer reviewed journal
Characterization of Human Oligodendroglia derived-EV-rich in sHSPs (HOG-EV-sHSPs). Establish HSPB1/B8 stably expressing cell lines for the production of sHSPs rich-EV cell culture conditioned medium. Human Oligodendroglia cell lines (HOG) were stably transduced with pLenti-HSPBs gene constructs
Last updated on: 14-08-2020 - 15:22
Contact: Joy Irobi
Organisation: University of Hasselt (UHasselt)
Status: Still in development, Internally validated, Currently submitted for further validation by an external party (e.g. OECD, EURL ECVAM,…)
The feed undergoes an in vitro enzymatic hydrolysis simulating the digestion in the upper digestive tract followed by a dialysis mimicking the intestinal absorption. Finally, an in vitro batch fermentation is performed and simulates the fermentation occurring in the hindgut. The ingredients, ground
Last updated on: 16-07-2020 - 15:04
Contact: Nadia Everaert
Organisation: University of Liège (ULiège)
Status: Published in peer reviewed journal
Prebiotics are used by the gut microbiota creating metabolites that exert a positive
effect on the host (postbiotics). Prebiotics are available on the market for human and
animal consumption and may induce differential effects on the host's health and
metabolism. They can be tested by in vitro
Last updated on: 16-07-2020 - 15:02
Contact: Nadia Everaert
Organisation: University of Liège (ULiège)
Status: Published in peer reviewed journal
Cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC-CMs) offer an attractive platform for cardiovascular research, including disease modeling, drug toxicity testing and development of regenerative therapies. Patient-specific iPSC-CMs are very useful to study disease pathogenesis and
Last updated on: 30-06-2020 - 14:13
Contact: Maaike Alaerts
Organisation: University of Antwerp (UAntwerpen)
Status: Still in development, Internally validated
Vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) deficiency plays a pivotal role in aneurysm development. Unfortunately, access to native VSMCs of patients and (particularly) control individuals is extremely limited. It has been shown that iPSC-derived VSMCs recapitulate the yet known disease processes very well.
Last updated on: 03-06-2020 - 13:51
Contact: Aline Verstraeten
Organisation: University of Antwerp (UAntwerpen)
Status: Still in development, Internally validated
Reverse pharmacology is a high-throughput in vitro method to characterise ligand-receptor interactions. In this method, a receptor of interest is expressed in a heterologous cell line and used as a hook to fish out its ligand(s) from a library of synthetic compounds. Receptor activation is measured
Last updated on: 17-04-2020 - 09:56
Contact: Isabel Beets
Organisation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)
Status: Published in peer reviewed journal
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans provides a powerful model system to study fundamental working mechanisms of the nervous system in a living animal. It's main advantages are its compact nervous system that has been fully mapped, its short generation time and amenability for genetic research. As a
Last updated on: 17-04-2020 - 09:55
Contact: Isabel Beets
Organisation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)
Status: Published in peer reviewed journal
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is being applied to characterize the fluid flow in different applications. CFD has obtained significant interest in both the medical and engineering community because of its non-invasive character. It can predict the fluid flow characteristics when one or multiple
Last updated on: 10-04-2020 - 09:22
Contact: Mohammad Rahimi Gorji
Organisation: Ghent University (UGent)
Status: Still in development, Published in peer reviewed journal
