Cytokine-Mediated Barrier Disruption

Introduction

The Colon Intestine-Chip provides a human organoid-based platform to study cell-cell interactions and mechanisms that elicit collapse of the intestinal epithelial homeostasis. We employed the cytokines IFN, a prototype cytokine on intestinal epithelial barrier disruption studies, or IL-22. IL-22 acts as a barrier-insulting cytokine when applied to healthy tissue in our Colon Intestine-Chip, in line with recent findings.

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