A customizable microfluidic platform for medium-throughput modeling of neuromuscular circuits.

"Declaration of competing interest: The authors have no competing interests to declare."

"This work was aided by the CRTD Light Microscopy facility. We thank T. Levin for assisting with revising the manuscript. We thank N. Rein, M. Grimmer, A. Sójka and M. Dimaki for the preparation of the PEMA coated glass cover slips. We thank J. Naughton for providing us with the RABV production cell lines and for advice on cell handling. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the CRTD, which is part of the Technische Universität Dresden. This work was financed by the DFG Research Center (DFG FZT 111) and Cluster of Excellence (DFG EXC 168), including a seed grant. JB was sponsored by the Hans und Ilse Breuer Stiftung. JS was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (643417) and the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01EK1606A and 01ED1601B). This is an EU Joint Programme - Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) project supported by the following funding organizations under the aegis of JPND-www.jpnd.eu: Germany, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung; Israel, Ministry of Health; Italy, Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca; Sweden, Swedish Research Council; and Switzerland, Swiss National Science Foundation."