Instruments
Organ on Chip
- Advanced 3D culture platforms and neuronal co-cultures for the simulation of somatosensory circuits and nocicetive pathways
- Microfluidic systems and biomimetic matrices for the reproduction of pathological microenvironments (neuroinflammation; neuropathies; chronic pain)
- In vitro drug screening platforms on neuronal and glial models
Procedures
- Development of in vitro experimental models for the multifactorial simulation of CNS and PNS diseases
- Implementation of drug screening platforms for the evaluation of therapeutic response through electrophysiological, molecular, and behavioral analysis
- Development of computational pipelines for the automated extraction of biological features (morphological, molecular, electrophysiological)