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Nature ; 589(7841): 270-275, 2021 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33116299

RESUMO

There is an urgent need to create novel models using human disease-relevant cells to study severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) biology and to facilitate drug screening. Here, as SARS-CoV-2 primarily infects the respiratory tract, we developed a lung organoid model using human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC-LOs). The hPSC-LOs (particularly alveolar type-II-like cells) are permissive to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and showed robust induction of chemokines following SARS-CoV-2 infection, similar to what is seen in patients with COVID-19. Nearly 25% of these patients also have gastrointestinal manifestations, which are associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes1. We therefore also generated complementary hPSC-derived colonic organoids (hPSC-COs) to explore the response of colonic cells to SARS-CoV-2 infection. We found that multiple colonic cell types, especially enterocytes, express ACE2 and are permissive to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Using hPSC-LOs, we performed a high-throughput screen of drugs approved by the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) and identified entry inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2, including imatinib, mycophenolic acid and quinacrine dihydrochloride. Treatment at physiologically relevant levels of these drugs significantly inhibited SARS-CoV-2 infection of both hPSC-LOs and hPSC-COs. Together, these data demonstrate that hPSC-LOs and hPSC-COs infected by SARS-CoV-2 can serve as disease models to study SARS-CoV-2 infection and provide a valuable resource for drug screening to identify candidate COVID-19 therapeutics.


Assuntos
Antivirais/farmacologia , COVID-19/virologia , Colo/citologia , Avaliação Pré-Clínica de Medicamentos/métodos , Pulmão/citologia , Organoides/efeitos dos fármacos , Organoides/virologia , SARS-CoV-2/efeitos dos fármacos , Animais , COVID-19/prevenção & controle , Colo/efeitos dos fármacos , Colo/virologia , Aprovação de Drogas , Feminino , Xenoenxertos/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Técnicas In Vitro , Pulmão/efeitos dos fármacos , Pulmão/virologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Organoides/citologia , Organoides/metabolismo , SARS-CoV-2/genética , Estados Unidos , United States Food and Drug Administration , Tropismo Viral , Internalização do Vírus/efeitos dos fármacos , Tratamento Farmacológico da COVID-19
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Nature ; 585(7825): 426-432, 2020 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32908310

RESUMO

Endothelial cells adopt tissue-specific characteristics to instruct organ development and regeneration1,2. This adaptability is lost in cultured adult endothelial cells, which do not vascularize tissues in an organotypic manner. Here, we show that transient reactivation of the embryonic-restricted ETS variant transcription factor 2 (ETV2)3 in mature human endothelial cells cultured in a serum-free three-dimensional matrix composed of a mixture of laminin, entactin and type-IV collagen (LEC matrix) 'resets' these endothelial cells to adaptable, vasculogenic cells, which form perfusable and plastic vascular plexi. Through chromatin remodelling, ETV2 induces tubulogenic pathways, including the activation of RAP1, which promotes the formation of durable lumens4,5. In three-dimensional matrices-which do not have the constraints of bioprinted scaffolds-the 'reset' vascular endothelial cells (R-VECs) self-assemble into stable, multilayered and branching vascular networks within scalable microfluidic chambers, which are capable of transporting human blood. In vivo, R-VECs implanted subcutaneously in mice self-organize into durable pericyte-coated vessels that functionally anastomose to the host circulation and exhibit long-lasting patterning, with no evidence of malformations or angiomas. R-VECs directly interact with cells within three-dimensional co-cultured organoids, removing the need for the restrictive synthetic semipermeable membranes that are required for organ-on-chip systems, therefore providing a physiological platform for vascularization, which we call 'Organ-On-VascularNet'. R-VECs enable perfusion of glucose-responsive insulin-secreting human pancreatic islets, vascularize decellularized rat intestines and arborize healthy or cancerous human colon organoids. Using single-cell RNA sequencing and epigenetic profiling, we demonstrate that R-VECs establish an adaptive vascular niche that differentially adjusts and conforms to organoids and tumoroids in a tissue-specific manner. Our Organ-On-VascularNet model will permit metabolic, immunological and physiochemical studies and screens to decipher the crosstalk between organotypic endothelial cells and parenchymal cells for identification of determinants of endothelial cell heterogeneity, and could lead to advances in therapeutic organ repair and tumour targeting.


Assuntos
Vasos Sanguíneos/citologia , Carcinogênese , Células Endoteliais/citologia , Hemodinâmica , Neoplasias/irrigação sanguínea , Organogênese , Organoides/irrigação sanguínea , Vasos Sanguíneos/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Técnicas de Cultura de Células/instrumentação , Técnicas de Cultura de Células/métodos , Cromatina/metabolismo , Epigênese Genética , Epigenômica , Células Endoteliais da Veia Umbilical Humana , Humanos , Técnicas In Vitro , Ilhotas Pancreáticas/irrigação sanguínea , Modelos Biológicos , Especificidade de Órgãos , RNA-Seq , Análise de Célula Única , Fatores de Transcrição , Transcriptoma
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 120(41): e2308941120, 2023 10 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37782785

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Impaired lymphatic drainage and lymphedema are major morbidities whose mechanisms have remained obscure. To study lymphatic drainage and its impairment, we engineered a microfluidic culture model of lymphatic vessels draining interstitial fluid. This lymphatic drainage-on-chip revealed that inflammatory cytokines that are known to disrupt blood vessel junctions instead tightened lymphatic cell-cell junctions and impeded lymphatic drainage. This opposing response was further demonstrated when inhibition of rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK) was found to normalize fluid drainage under cytokine challenge by simultaneously loosening lymphatic junctions and tightening blood vessel junctions. Studies also revealed a previously undescribed shift in ROCK isoforms in lymphatic endothelial cells, wherein a ROCK2/junctional adhesion molecule-A (JAM-A) complex emerges that is responsible for the cytokine-induced lymphatic junction zippering. To validate these in vitro findings, we further demonstrated in a genetic mouse model that lymphatic-specific knockout of ROCK2 reversed lymphedema in vivo. These studies provide a unique platform to generate interstitial fluid pressure and measure the drainage of interstitial fluid into lymphatics and reveal a previously unappreciated ROCK2-mediated mechanism in regulating lymphatic drainage.


Assuntos
Molécula A de Adesão Juncional , Vasos Linfáticos , Linfedema , Quinases Associadas a rho , Animais , Camundongos , Biomimética , Citocinas/metabolismo , Células Endoteliais/metabolismo , Junções Intercelulares , Molécula A de Adesão Juncional/metabolismo , Vasos Linfáticos/metabolismo , Linfedema/genética , Linfedema/metabolismo , Quinases Associadas a rho/metabolismo
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J Biol Chem ; 299(10): 105188, 2023 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37625591

RESUMO

Rapidly accelerated fibrosarcoma (ARAF, BRAF, CRAF) kinase is central to the MAPK pathway (RAS-RAF-MEK-ERK). Inactive RAF kinase is believed to be monomeric, autoinhibited, and cytosolic, while activated RAF is recruited to the membrane via RAS-GTP, leading to the relief of autoinhibition, phosphorylation of key regulatory sites, and dimerization of RAF protomers. Although it is well known that active and inactive BRAF have differential phosphorylation sites that play a crucial role in regulating BRAF, key details are still missing. In this study, we report the characterization of a novel phosphorylation site, BRAFS732 (equivalent in CRAFS624), located in proximity to the C-terminus binding motif for the 14-3-3 scaffolding protein. At the C terminus, 14-3-3 binds to BRAFpS729 (CRAFpS621) and enhances RAF dimerization. We conducted mutational analysis of BRAFS732A/E and CRAFS624A/E and revealed that the phosphomimetic S→E mutant decreases 14-3-3 association and RAF dimerization. In normal cell signaling, dimerized RAF phosphorylates MEK1/2, which is observed in the phospho-deficient S→A mutant. Our results suggest that phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of this site fine-tune the association of 14-3-3 and RAF dimerization, ultimately impacting MEK phosphorylation. We further characterized the BRAF homodimer and BRAF:CRAF heterodimer and identified a correlation between phosphorylation of this site with drug sensitivity. Our work reveals a novel negative regulatory role for phosphorylation of BRAFS732 and CRAFS624 in decreasing 14-3-3 association, dimerization, and MEK phosphorylation. These findings provide insight into the regulation of the MAPK pathway and may have implications for cancers driven by mutations in the pathway.

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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 118(8)2021 02 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33542154

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Cells derived from pluripotent sources in vitro must resemble those found in vivo as closely as possible at both transcriptional and functional levels in order to be a useful tool for studying diseases and developing therapeutics. Recently, differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into brain microvascular endothelial cells (ECs) with blood-brain barrier (BBB)-like properties has been reported. These cells have since been used as a robust in vitro BBB model for drug delivery and mechanistic understanding of neurological diseases. However, the precise cellular identity of these induced brain microvascular endothelial cells (iBMECs) has not been well described. Employing a comprehensive transcriptomic metaanalysis of previously published hPSC-derived cells validated by physiological assays, we demonstrate that iBMECs lack functional attributes of ECs since they are deficient in vascular lineage genes while expressing clusters of genes related to the neuroectodermal epithelial lineage (Epi-iBMEC). Overexpression of key endothelial ETS transcription factors (ETV2, ERG, and FLI1) reprograms Epi-iBMECs into authentic endothelial cells that are congruent with bona fide endothelium at both transcriptomic as well as some functional levels. This approach could eventually be used to develop a robust human BBB model in vitro that resembles the human brain EC in vivo for functional studies and drug discovery.


Assuntos
Endotélio Vascular/citologia , Células-Tronco Pluripotentes/citologia , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Animais , Barreira Hematoencefálica , Encéfalo/irrigação sanguínea , Encéfalo/citologia , Diferenciação Celular , Linhagem Celular , Reprogramação Celular/fisiologia , Endotélio Vascular/fisiologia , Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Camundongos Endogâmicos , Células-Tronco Pluripotentes/fisiologia , Proteína Proto-Oncogênica c-fli-1/genética , Proteína Proto-Oncogênica c-fli-1/metabolismo , Análise de Célula Única , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Regulador Transcricional ERG/genética , Regulador Transcricional ERG/metabolismo
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Annu Rev Biomed Eng ; 23: 517-546, 2021 07 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33974812

RESUMO

Liver disease is an important clinical problem, impacting 600 million people worldwide. It is the 11th-leading cause of death in the world. Despite constant improvement in treatment and diagnostics, the aging population and accumulated risk factors led to increased morbidity due to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and steatohepatitis. Liver transplantation, first established in the 1960s, is the second-most-common solid organ transplantation and is the gold standard for the treatment of liver failure. However, less than 10% of the global need for liver transplantation is met at the current rates of transplantation due to the paucity of available organs. Cell- and tissue-based therapies present an alternative to organ transplantation. This review surveys the approaches and tools that have been developed, discusses the distinctive challenges that exist for cell- and tissue-based therapies, and examines the future directions of regenerative therapies for the treatment of liver disease.


Assuntos
Transplante de Fígado , Hepatopatia Gordurosa não Alcoólica , Idoso , Terapia Baseada em Transplante de Células e Tecidos , Humanos , Hepatopatia Gordurosa não Alcoólica/terapia , Fatores de Risco
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Development ; 141(4): 816-29, 2014 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24496619

RESUMO

Loss of cochlear hair cells in mammals is currently believed to be permanent, resulting in hearing impairment that affects more than 10% of the population. Here, we developed two genetic strategies to ablate neonatal mouse cochlear hair cells in vivo. Both Pou4f3(DTR/+) and Atoh1-CreER™; ROSA26(DTA/+) alleles allowed selective and inducible hair cell ablation. After hair cell loss was induced at birth, we observed spontaneous regeneration of hair cells. Fate-mapping experiments demonstrated that neighboring supporting cells acquired a hair cell fate, which increased in a basal to apical gradient, averaging over 120 regenerated hair cells per cochlea. The normally mitotically quiescent supporting cells proliferated after hair cell ablation. Concurrent fate mapping and labeling with mitotic tracers showed that regenerated hair cells were derived by both mitotic regeneration and direct transdifferentiation. Over time, regenerated hair cells followed a similar pattern of maturation to normal hair cell development, including the expression of prestin, a terminal differentiation marker of outer hair cells, although many new hair cells eventually died. Hair cell regeneration did not occur when ablation was induced at one week of age. Our findings demonstrate that the neonatal mouse cochlea is capable of spontaneous hair cell regeneration after damage in vivo. Thus, future studies on the neonatal cochlea might shed light on the competence of supporting cells to regenerate hair cells and on the factors that promote the survival of newly regenerated hair cells.


Assuntos
Animais Recém-Nascidos , Transdiferenciação Celular/fisiologia , Células Ciliadas Auditivas/fisiologia , Regeneração/fisiologia , Animais , Proteínas de Transporte de Ânions/metabolismo , Células Ciliadas Auditivas/ultraestrutura , Camundongos , Microscopia Eletrônica de Varredura , Mitose/fisiologia , Transportadores de Sulfato
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Microcirculation ; 24(5)2017 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28376260

RESUMO

OBJECTIVES: The morphogenetic events that occur during angiogenic sprouting involve several members of the Rho family of GTPases, including Cdc42. However, the precise roles of Cdc42 in angiogenic sprouting have been difficult to elucidate owing to the lack of models to study these events in vitro. Here, we aim to identify the roles of Cdc42 in branching morphogenesis in angiogenesis. METHODS: Using a 3D biomimetic model of angiogenesis in vitro, where endothelial cells were seeded inside a cylindrical channel within collagen gel and sprouted from the channel in response to a defined biochemical gradient of angiogenic factors, we inhibited Cdc42 activity with a small molecule inhibitor ML141 and examined the effects of Cdc42 on the morphogenetic processes of angiogenic sprouting. RESULTS: We find that partial inhibition of Cdc42 had minimal effects on directional migration of endothelial cells, but led to fewer branching events without affecting the length of these branches. We also observed that antagonizing Cdc42 reduced collective migration in favor of single cell migration. Additionally, Cdc42 also regulated the initiation of filopodial extensions in endothelial tip cells. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that Cdc42 can affect multiple morphogenetic processes during angiogenic sprouting and ultimately impact the architecture of the vasculature.


Assuntos
Morfogênese , Neovascularização Fisiológica , Proteína cdc42 de Ligação ao GTP/fisiologia , Biomimética , Movimento Celular , Células Endoteliais/citologia , Células Endoteliais/efeitos dos fármacos , Células Endoteliais da Veia Umbilical Humana , Humanos , Modelos Cardiovasculares , Pseudópodes , Pirazóis/farmacologia , Sulfonamidas/farmacologia , Proteína cdc42 de Ligação ao GTP/antagonistas & inibidores , Proteína cdc42 de Ligação ao GTP/farmacologia
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 111(22): 7968-73, 2014 Jun 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24843171

RESUMO

The density and architecture of capillary beds that form within a tissue depend on many factors, including local metabolic demand and blood flow. Here, using microfluidic control of local fluid mechanics, we show the existence of a previously unappreciated flow-induced shear stress threshold that triggers angiogenic sprouting. Both intraluminal shear stress over the endothelium and transmural flow through the endothelium above 10 dyn/cm(2) triggered endothelial cells to sprout and invade into the underlying matrix, and this threshold is not impacted by the maturation of cell-cell junctions or pressure gradient across the monolayer. Antagonizing VE-cadherin widened cell-cell junctions and reduced the applied shear stress for a given transmural flow rate, but did not affect the shear threshold for sprouting. Furthermore, both transmural and luminal flow induced expression of matrix metalloproteinase 1, and this up-regulation was required for the flow-induced sprouting. Once sprouting was initiated, continuous flow was needed to both sustain sprouting and prevent retraction. To explore the potential ramifications of a shear threshold on the spatial patterning of new sprouts, we used finite-element modeling to predict fluid shear in a variety of geometric settings and then experimentally demonstrated that transmural flow guided preferential sprouting toward paths of draining interstitial fluid flow as might occur to connect capillary beds to venules or lymphatics. In addition, we show that luminal shear increases in local narrowings of vessels to trigger sprouting, perhaps ultimately to normalize shear stress across the vasculature. Together, these studies highlight the role of shear stress in controlling angiogenic sprouting and offer a potential homeostatic mechanism for regulating vascular density.


Assuntos
Células Endoteliais/fisiologia , Metaloproteinase 1 da Matriz/fisiologia , Microfluídica/instrumentação , Microfluídica/métodos , Modelos Biológicos , Neovascularização Fisiológica/fisiologia , Adenoviridae/genética , Capilares/citologia , Capilares/fisiologia , Movimento Celular/fisiologia , Células Endoteliais/citologia , Células Endoteliais/ultraestrutura , Análise de Elementos Finitos , Inativação Gênica , Células Endoteliais da Veia Umbilical Humana , Humanos , Interações Hidrofóbicas e Hidrofílicas , Metaloproteinase 1 da Matriz/genética , Mecanotransdução Celular/fisiologia , Microscopia Eletrônica de Transmissão , Estresse Mecânico
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Opt Express ; 24(18): 20089-106, 2016 Sep 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27607618

RESUMO

We demonstrate direct evidence for the first realization of atomically smooth sapphire crystalline fiber cores with a surface variation of only ~1.9 Å. The hybrid glass-clad crystalline cores were grown by a laser-based fiber drawing technique. Because of the improvement in crystal fiber quality, we were able, for the first time, to comprehensively and quantitatively elucidate the correlation between fiber nanostructure and optical loss. We also experimentally demonstrated that high-temperature treatment has a significant impact on defect relaxation and promotes excellent crystallinity, and hence enables low-loss optical wave guiding. The experimentally measured propagation losses in the order of 0.01-0.1 dB/cm are the lowest ever reported among conventional Ti:sapphire channel waveguides and ultrafast-laser-inscribed waveguides, and agree well with the theory. Through experiments and numerical calculation, we have demonstrated that low threshold and high efficiency of Ti:sapphire crystal fiber lasers are possible with the atomic-level roughness, low-loss propagation, and high crystallinity of the Ti:sapphire crystalline core.

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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 110(17): 6712-7, 2013 Apr 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23569284

RESUMO

Angiogenesis is a complex morphogenetic process whereby endothelial cells from existing vessels invade as multicellular sprouts to form new vessels. Here, we have engineered a unique organotypic model of angiogenic sprouting and neovessel formation that originates from preformed artificial vessels fully encapsulated within a 3D extracellular matrix. Using this model, we screened the effects of angiogenic factors and identified two distinct cocktails that promoted robust multicellular endothelial sprouting. The angiogenic sprouts in our system exhibited hallmark structural features of in vivo angiogenesis, including directed invasion of leading cells that developed filopodia-like protrusions characteristic of tip cells, following stalk cells exhibiting apical-basal polarity, and lumens and branches connecting back to the parent vessels. Ultimately, sprouts bridged between preformed channels and formed perfusable neovessels. Using this model, we investigated the effects of angiogenic inhibitors on sprouting morphogenesis. Interestingly, the ability of VEGF receptor 2 inhibition to antagonize filopodia formation in tip cells was context-dependent, suggesting a mechanism by which vessels might be able to toggle between VEGF-dependent and VEGF-independent modes of angiogenesis. Like VEGF, sphingosine-1-phosphate also seemed to exert its proangiogenic effects by stimulating directional filopodial extension, whereas matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors prevented sprout extension but had no impact on filopodial formation. Together, these results demonstrate an in vitro 3D biomimetic model that reconstitutes the morphogenetic steps of angiogenic sprouting and highlight the potential utility of the model to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that coordinate the complex series of events involved in neovascularization.


Assuntos
Biomimética/métodos , Microfluídica/métodos , Modelos Biológicos , Morfogênese/fisiologia , Neovascularização Fisiológica/fisiologia , Polaridade Celular/fisiologia , Dimetilpolisiloxanos , Cloridrato de Fingolimode , Imunofluorescência , Células Endoteliais da Veia Umbilical Humana , Humanos , Indóis/farmacologia , Lisofosfolipídeos/metabolismo , Morfogênese/efeitos dos fármacos , Neovascularização Fisiológica/efeitos dos fármacos , Propilenoglicóis/farmacologia , Pseudópodes/fisiologia , Pirróis/farmacologia , Esfingosina/análogos & derivados , Esfingosina/metabolismo , Esfingosina/farmacologia , Receptor 2 de Fatores de Crescimento do Endotélio Vascular/antagonistas & inibidores
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Data Brief ; 53: 110234, 2024 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38445195

RESUMO

This article presents data of the effects of fly ash on growth and yield of radish plant under two types of soil (delta clay rich soil and coastal sandy soil). The experiment was conducted under semi-controlled conditions in a greenhouse at the Faculty of Agronomy, Vietnam National University of Agriculture (latitude 21°0'01N, longitude 105° 9'32″ W). The experiment has been conducted with the Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD), each experimental formula was repeated 5 times. A total of 10 experimental formulas were performed including 100% delta clay rich soil, 95% delta clay rich soil+5% FA, 90% delta clay rich soil+10% FA, 85% delta clay rich soil+15% FA, 80% delta clay rich soil+20% FA, 100% coastal sandy soil, 95% coastal sandy soil+5%FA, 90% coastal sandy soil +10%FA, 85% coastal sandy soil+15%FA, and 80% coastal sandy soil+20%FA. Data on germination rate, plant height, number of leaves, SPAD values, leaf area, shoot fresh and dry weight, storage-root traits, storage-root fresh and dry weight were collected to assess the effects of fly ash on growth and yield of radish plant under delta clay rich soil and coastal sandy soil. This data could help develop a strategy fly ash application for crop cultivation.

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Bio Protoc ; 14(2): e4925, 2024 Jan 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38268979

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Cell-based liver therapies utilizing functionally stabilized engineered hepatic tissue hold promise in improving host liver functions and are emerging as a potential alternative to whole-organ transplantation. Owing to the ability to accommodate a large ex vivo engineered hepatocyte mass and dense vascularization, the mesenteric parametrial fat pad in female nude mice forms an ideal anatomic microenvironment for ectopic hepatocyte transplantation. However, the lack of any reported protocol detailing the presurgical preparation and construction of the engineered hepatic hydrogel, fat pad surgery, and postsurgical care and bioluminescence imaging to confirm in vivo hepatocyte implantation makes it challenging to reliably perform and test engraftment and integration with the host. In this report, we provide a step-by-step protocol for in vivo hepatocyte implantation, including preparation of hepatic tissue for implantation, the surgery process, and bioluminescence imaging to assess survival of functional hepatocytes. This will be a valuable protocol for researchers in the fields of tissue engineering, transplantation, and regenerative medicine. Key features • Primary human hepatocytes transduced ex vivo with a lentiviral vector carrying firefly luciferase are surgically implanted onto the fat pad. • Bioluminescence helps monitor survival of transplanted hepatic tissue over time. • Applicable for assessment of graft survival, graft-host integration, and liver regeneration.

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Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38598377

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Blood pressure (BP) is predicted by this effort based on photoplethysmography (PPG) data to provide effective pre-warning of possible preeclampsia of pregnant women. Towards frequent BP measurement, a PPG sensor device is utilized in this study as a solution to offer continuous, cuffless blood pressure monitoring frequently for pregnant women. PPG data were collected using a flexible sensor patch from the wrist arteries of 194 subjects, which included 154 normal individuals and 40 pregnant women. Deep-learning models in 3 stages were built and trained to predict BP. The first stage involves developing a baseline deep-learning BP model using a dataset from common subjects. In the 2nd stage, this model was fine-tuned with data from pregnant women, using a 1-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (1D-CNN) with Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAMs), followed by bi-directional Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) layers and attention layers. The fine-tuned model results in a mean error (ME) of -1.40 ± 7.15 (standard deviation, SD) for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and -0.44 (ME) ± 5.06 (SD) for diastolic blood pressure (DBP). At the final stage is the personalization for individual pregnant women using transfer learning again, enhancing further the model accuracy to -0.17 (ME) ± 1.45 (SD) for SBP and 0.27 (ME) ± 0.64 (SD) for DBP showing a promising solution for continuous, non-invasive BP monitoring in precision by the proposed 3-stage of modeling, fine-tuning and personalization.

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Nat Mater ; 11(9): 768-74, 2012 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22751181

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In the absence of perfusable vascular networks, three-dimensional (3D) engineered tissues densely populated with cells quickly develop a necrotic core. Yet the lack of a general approach to rapidly construct such networks remains a major challenge for 3D tissue culture. Here, we printed rigid 3D filament networks of carbohydrate glass, and used them as a cytocompatible sacrificial template in engineered tissues containing living cells to generate cylindrical networks that could be lined with endothelial cells and perfused with blood under high-pressure pulsatile flow. Because this simple vascular casting approach allows independent control of network geometry, endothelialization and extravascular tissue, it is compatible with a wide variety of cell types, synthetic and natural extracellular matrices, and crosslinking strategies. We also demonstrated that the perfused vascular channels sustained the metabolic function of primary rat hepatocytes in engineered tissue constructs that otherwise exhibited suppressed function in their core.


Assuntos
Vasos Sanguíneos/citologia , Perfusão , Impressão/métodos , Engenharia Tecidual/métodos , Alicerces Teciduais/química , Animais , Materiais Biocompatíveis/química , Materiais Biocompatíveis/metabolismo , Materiais Biocompatíveis/farmacologia , Carboidratos/química , Vidro/química , Hepatócitos/citologia , Hepatócitos/efeitos dos fármacos , Hepatócitos/metabolismo , Células Endoteliais da Veia Umbilical Humana/citologia , Células Endoteliais da Veia Umbilical Humana/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Ratos , Fatores de Tempo
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J Drugs Dermatol ; 12(7): 780-4, 2013 Jul 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23884490

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The number of skin cancers continues to rise, accounting for approximately 40% of all cancers reported in the United States and approximately 9,500 deaths per year. Studies have shown reactive oxygen species (ROS) type free radicals are linked to skin cancer and aging. Therefore, it is important for us to identify agents that have anti-oxidant properties to protect skin against free radical damage. The purpose of this research is to investigate the anti-oxidant properties of bisabolol, silymarin, and ectoin that are components from chamomile, milk thistle, and halophilic bacteria, respectively. We measured the ability of bisabolol, silymarin, and ectoin to modulate the hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)-induced upregulation of ROS free radicals in normal human skin fibroblasts in vitro. Using a flow cytometry-based assay, we demonstrated that varying concentrations of these natural components were able to inhibit upregulation of H2O2-generated free radicals in human skin fibroblasts in vitro. Our results indicate components of chamomile, milk thistle, and halophilic bacteria exhibit anti-oxidant capabilities and warrant further study in clinical trials to characterize their anti-cancer and anti-aging capabilities.


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Diamino Aminoácidos/farmacologia , Antioxidantes/farmacologia , Sesquiterpenos/farmacologia , Silimarina/farmacologia , Diamino Aminoácidos/administração & dosagem , Diamino Aminoácidos/isolamento & purificação , Antioxidantes/administração & dosagem , Antioxidantes/isolamento & purificação , Bactérias/química , Células Cultivadas , Camomila/química , Fibroblastos/efeitos dos fármacos , Fibroblastos/patologia , Humanos , Peróxido de Hidrogênio/toxicidade , Silybum marianum/química , Sesquiterpenos Monocíclicos , Espécies Reativas de Oxigênio/metabolismo , Sesquiterpenos/administração & dosagem , Sesquiterpenos/isolamento & purificação , Silimarina/administração & dosagem , Silimarina/isolamento & purificação , Pele/efeitos dos fármacos , Pele/patologia
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Adv Sci (Weinh) ; 10(28): e2301493, 2023 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37559172

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The metal-semiconductor heterojunction is imperative for the realization of electrically driven nanolasers for chip-level platforms. Progress in developing such nanolasers has hitherto rarely been realized, however, because of their complexity in heterojunction fabrication and the need to use noble metals that are incompatible with microelectronic manufacturing. Most plasmonic nanolasers lase either above a high threshold (101 -103 MW cm-2 ) or at a cryogenic temperature, and lasing is possible only after they are removed from the substrate to avoid the large ohmic loss and the low modal reflectivity, making monolithic fabrication impossible. Here, for the first time, record-low-threshold, room-temperature ultraviolet (UV) lasing of plasmon-coupled core-shell nanowires that are directly grown on silicon is demonstrated. The naturally formed core-shell metal-semiconductor heterostructure of the nanowires leads to a 100-fold improvement in growth density over previous results. This unprecedentedly high nanowire density creates intense plasmonic resonance, which is outcoupled to the resonant Fabry-Pérot microcavity. By boosting the emission strength by a factor of 100, the hybrid photonic-plasmonic system successfully facilitates a record-low laser threshold of 12 kW cm-2 with a spontaneous emission coupling factor as high as ≈0.32 in the 340-360 nm range. Such architecture is simple and cost-competitive for future UV sources in silicon integration.

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Cell Rep ; 37(4): 109897, 2021 10 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34706243

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Elevated circulating activity of adenosine deaminase 2 (ADA2) is associated with liver fibrosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In the liver of NAFLD patients, ADA2-positive portal macrophages are significantly associated with the degree of liver fibrosis. These liver macrophages are CD14- and CD16-positive and co-express chemokine receptors CCR2, CCR5, and CXCR3, indicating infiltrative monocyte origin. Human circulatory monocytes release ADA2 upon macrophage differentiation in vitro. When stimulated by recombinant human ADA2 (rhADA2), human monocyte-derived macrophages demonstrate upregulation of pro-inflammatory and pro-fibrotic genes, including PDGF-B, a key pro-fibrotic cytokine. This PDGF-B upregulation is reproduced by inosine, the enzymatic product of ADA2, but not adenosine, and is abolished by E359N, a loss-of-function mutation in ADA2. Finally, rhADA2 also stimulates PDGF-B production from Kupffer cells in primary human liver spheroids. Together, these data suggest that infiltrative monocytes promote fibrogenesis in NAFLD via ADA2-mediated autocrine/paracrine signaling culminating in enhanced PDGF-B production.


Assuntos
Adenosina Desaminase/metabolismo , Comunicação Autócrina , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/metabolismo , Células de Kupffer/enzimologia , Fígado/enzimologia , Monócitos/enzimologia , Hepatopatia Gordurosa não Alcoólica/enzimologia , Comunicação Parácrina , Adulto , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas c-sis/metabolismo
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Adv Mater ; 33(12): e2006819, 2021 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33576143

RESUMO

Continuous-wave (CW) room-temperature (RT) laser operation with low energy consumption is an ultimate goal for electrically driven lasers. A monolithically integrated perovskite laser in a chip-level fiber scheme is ideal. However, because of the well-recognized air and thermal instabilities of perovskites, laser action in a perovskite has mostly been limited to either pulsed or cryogenic-temperature operations. Most CW laser operations at RT have had poor durability. Here, crystal fibers that have robust and high-heat-load nature are shown to be the key to enabling the first demonstration of ultralow-threshold CW RT laser action in a compact, monolithic, and inexpensive crystal fiber/nanoperovskite hybrid architecture that is directly pumped with a 405 nm diode laser. Purcell-enhanced light-matter coupling between the atomically smooth fiber microcavity and the perovskite nanocrystallites gain medium enables a high Q (≈1500) and a high ß (0.31). This 762 nm laser outperforms previously reported structures with a record-low threshold of 132 nW and an optical-to-optical slope conversion efficiency of 2.93%, and it delivers a stable output for CW and RT operation. These results represent a significant advancement toward monolithic all-optical integration.

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