Ductular reaction-on-a-chip: Microfluidic co-cultures to study stem cell fate selection during liver injury.
Sci Rep
; 6: 36077, 2016 10 31.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27796316
ABSTRACT
Liver injury modulates local microenvironment, triggering production of signals that instruct stem cell fate choices. In this study, we employed a microfluidic co-culture system to recreate important interactions in the liver stem cell niche, those between adult hepatocytes and liver progenitor cells (LPCs). We demonstrate that pluripotent stem cell-derived LPCs choose hepatic fate when cultured next to healthy hepatocytes but begin biliary differentiation program when co-cultured with injured hepatocytes. We connect this fate selection to skewing in production of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and transforming growth factor (TGF)-ß1 caused by injury. Significantly, biliary fate selection of LPCs was not observed in the absence of hepatocytes nor did it happen in the presence of TGF-ß inhibitors. Our study demonstrates that microfluidic culture systems may offer an interesting new tool for dissecting cellular interactions leading to aberrant stem cell differentiation during injury.
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Células Madre
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Linaje de la Célula
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Hepatocitos
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Microfluídica
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Etanol
Límite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Sci Rep
Año:
2016
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos