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Cells with similar structure and function are grouped into tissues. A group of tissues with a specialized function is called an organ. There are four main types of tissue in vertebrates: epithelial, connective, muscle, and nervous.

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Cell-, Tissue-, and Organs-on-a-Chip

Palaniappan Sethu¹

¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Cells, Tissues, Organs

|March 21, 2022

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Disease modeling In vitro culture Microphysiological systems

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