Table 1 Temporal drug combinations.

From: Automated microfluidic platform for dynamic and combinatorial drug screening of tumor organoids

Combinatorial chemotherapy

Constant drug combination description

Temporal drug combination description

Temporal delivery description

FOLFIRINOX

CPT-11 (100 nM), Oxaliplatin (100 nM), Fluorouracil (100 nM)

CPT-11 (100 nM), Oxaliplatin (100 nM), High Dose Fluorouracil (1 μM), Low-Dose Fluorouracil (100 nM)

CPT-11 (2 h), Oxaliplatin (2 h), High Dose Fluorouracil (30 min), Low-Dose Fluorouracil (48 h)

FOLFIRI

CPT-11 (100 nM), Fluorouracil (100 nM)

CPT-11 (100 nM), High Dose Fluorouracil (1 μM), Low-Dose Fluorouracil (100 nM)

CPT-11 (4 h), High Dose Fluorouracil (30 min), Low-Dose Fluorouracil (48 h)

FOLFOX

Oxaliplatin (100 nM), Fluorouracil (100 nM)

Oxaliplatin (100 nM), High Dose Fluorouracil (1 μM), Low-Dose Fluorouracil (100 nM)

Oxaliplatin (4 h), High Dose Fluorouracil (30 min), Low-Dose Fluorouracil (48 h)

Gemcitabine and Fluorouracil (5-FU)

Gemcitabine (100 nM), Fluorouracil (100 nM)

Gemcitabine (100 nM), Fluorouracil (100 nM)

Gemcitabine (4 h), Low-Dose Fluorouracil (48 h) repeated twice

Gemcitabine and Paclitaxel

Gemcitabine (100 nM), Paclitaxel (10 nM)

Gemcitabine (100 nM), Paclitaxel (10 nM)

Gemcitabine (4 h), Paclitaxel (4 h), normal growth media (24 h) repeated twice