背景器官芯片技术加速了血管系统的体外临床前研究,该平台的一个关键优势在于,它有望通过提供原代人类细胞培养环境来影响个性化医疗,在该环境中,直接从单个组织中对内皮细胞进行活检或通过干细胞生物技术进行分化。然而,这些方法很难在实验室采用,并经常导致细胞的杂质和异质性。这限制了器官芯片做出准确生理预测的能力。在这项研究中,我们报道了使用血液来源的内皮细胞替代原代和诱导多能干细胞来源的内皮细胞.方法和结果,基因型,表型,和器官芯片功能特征的血液来源的生长内皮细胞与市售和最常用的原代内皮细胞和诱导多能干细胞来源的内皮细胞进行了比较。这些方法包括RNA测序,以及细胞标记表达的标准标准测定,生长动力学,迁移潜力,和血管生成。最后,使用经血液来源的内皮细胞工程化的血管芯片评估剪切下的血栓炎症反应.血液来源的内皮细胞表现出典型内皮细胞的标准标准标志。不同来源的内皮细胞基因表达谱存在差异,但是血液来源的细胞比诱导多能干细胞来源的细胞更接近原代细胞。此外,血液来源的内皮细胞更容易从个体中获得,与原代细胞或诱导多能干细胞来源的细胞相比,它们在功能研究和器官芯片方面同样有效。结论血液来源的内皮细胞可用于临床前研究,以使用芯片上器官开发更强大和个性化的下一代疾病模型。
Background Organ-on-chip technology has accelerated in vitro preclinical research of the vascular system, and a key strength of this platform is its promise to impact personalized medicine by providing a primary human cell-culture environment where endothelial cells are directly biopsied from individual tissue or differentiated through stem cell biotechniques. However, these methods are difficult to adopt in laboratories, and often result in impurity and heterogeneity of cells. This limits the power of organ-chips in making accurate physiological predictions. In this study, we report the use of blood-derived endothelial cells as alternatives to primary and induced pluripotent stem cell-derived endothelial cells. Methods and Results Here, the genotype, phenotype, and organ-chip functional characteristics of blood-derived outgrowth endothelial cells were compared against commercially available and most used primary endothelial cells and induced pluripotent stem cell-derived endothelial cells. The methods include RNA-sequencing, as well as criterion standard assays of cell marker expression, growth kinetics, migration potential, and vasculogenesis. Finally, thromboinflammatory responses under shear using vessel-chips engineered with blood-derived endothelial cells were assessed. Blood-derived endothelial cells exhibit the criterion standard hallmarks of typical endothelial cells. There are differences in gene expression profiles between different sources of endothelial cells, but blood-derived cells are relatively closer to primary cells than induced pluripotent stem cell-derived. Furthermore, blood-derived endothelial cells are much easier to obtain from individuals and yet, they serve as an equally effective cell source for functional studies and organ-chips compared with primary cells or induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cells. Conclusions Blood-derived endothelial cells may be used in preclinical research for developing more robust and personalized next-generation disease models using organ-on-chips.