Article ; Online: Decellularization of the Human Liver to Generate Native Extracellular Matrix for Use in Automated Functional Assays with Stellate Cells.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
2023 Volume 2669, Page(s) 233–244
Abstract: With the incidence of liver disease on the rise globally, increasing numbers of patients are presenting with advanced hepatic fibrosis and significant mortality risk. The demand far outstrips possible transplantation capacities, and thus there is an ... ...
Abstract | With the incidence of liver disease on the rise globally, increasing numbers of patients are presenting with advanced hepatic fibrosis and significant mortality risk. The demand far outstrips possible transplantation capacities, and thus there is an intense drive to develop new pharmacological therapies that stall or reverse liver scarring. Recent late-stage failures of lead compounds have highlighted the challenges of resolving fibrosis, which has developed and stabilized over many years and varies in nature and composition from individual to individual. Hence, preclinical tools are being developed in both the hepatology and tissue engineering communities to elucidate the nature, composition, and cellular interactions of the hepatic extracellular niche in health and disease. In this protocol, we describe strategies for decellularizing cirrhotic and healthy human liver specimens and show how these can be used in simple functional assays to detect the impact on stellate cell function. Our simple, small-scale approach is translatable to diverse lab settings and generates cell-free materials which could be used for a variety of in vitro analyses as well as a scaffold for repopulating with key hepatic cell populations. |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Liver/physiology ; Liver Cirrhosis ; Liver Diseases ; Tissue Engineering/methods ; Extracellular Matrix ; Tissue Scaffolds |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-05-30 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ISSN | 1940-6029 |
ISSN (online) | 1940-6029 |
DOI | 10.1007/978-1-0716-3207-9_14 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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