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Xu FX, Ioannou GN, Lee SP, Savard C, Horn CL, Fu D. Discrimination of lipid composition and cellular localization in human liver tissues by stimulated Raman scattering microscopy. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2024; 29:016008. [PMID: 38269081 PMCID: PMC10807871 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.29.1.016008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
Abstract
Significance The molecular mechanisms driving the progression from nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) to fibrosing steatohepatitis (NASH) are insufficiently understood. Techniques enabling the characterization of different lipid species with both chemical and spatial information can provide valuable insights into their contributions to the disease progression. Aim We extend the utility of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy to characterize and quantify lipid species in liver tissue sections from patients with NAFL and NASH. Approach We applied a dual-band hyperspectral SRS microscopy system for imaging tissue sections in both the C-H stretching and fingerprint regions. The same sections were imaged with polarization microscopy for detecting birefringent liquid crystals in the tissues. Results Our imaging and analysis pipeline provides accurate classification and quantification of free cholesterol, saturated cholesteryl esters (CEs), unsaturated CE, and triglycerides in liver tissue sections. The subcellular resolution enables investigations of the heterogeneous distribution of saturated CE, which has been under-examined in previous studies. We also discovered that the birefringent crystals, previously found to be associated with NASH development, are predominantly composed of saturated CE. Conclusions Our method allows for a detailed characterization of lipid composition in human liver tissues and enables further investigation into the potential mechanism of NASH progression.
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- Fiona Xi Xu
- University of Washington, Department of Chemistry, Seattle, Washington, United States
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- Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Seattle, Washington, United States
- University of Washington, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Research and Development, Seattle, Washington, United States
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- University of Washington, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Seattle, Washington, United States
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- Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Seattle, Washington, United States
- University of Washington, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Seattle, Washington, United States
- Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Research and Development, Seattle, Washington, United States
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- San Antonio Military Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, United States
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- University of Washington, Department of Chemistry, Seattle, Washington, United States
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Alkhuder K. Raman Scattering-Based Optical Sensing Of Chronic Liver Diseases. Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther 2023; 42:103505. [PMID: 36965755 DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2023.103505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2022] [Revised: 02/26/2023] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/27/2023]
Abstract
Chronic liver diseases (CLDs) are a major public health problem. Despite the progress achieved in fighting against viral hepatitis, the emergence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease might pose a serious challenge to the public's health in the coming decades. Medical management of CLDs represents a substantial burden on the public health infrastructures. The health care cost of these diseases is an additional burden that weighs heavily on the economies of developing countries. Effective management of CLDs requires the adoption of reliable and cost-effective screening and diagnosing methods to ensure early detection and accurate clinical assessment of these diseases. Vibrational spectroscopies have emerged as universal analytical methods with promising applications in various industrial and biomedical fields. These revolutionary analytical techniques rely on analyzing the interaction between a light beam and the test sample to generate a spectral fingerprint. This latter is defined by the analyte's chemical structure and the molecular vibrations of its functional groups. Raman spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy have been used in combination with various chemometric tests to diagnose a wide range of malignant, metabolic and infectious diseases. The aim of the current review is to cast light on the use of these optical sensing methods in the diagnosis of CLDs. The vast majority of research works that investigated the potential application of these spectroscopic techniques in screening and detecting CLDs were discussed here. The advantages and limitations of these modern analytical methods, as compared with the routine and gold standard diagnostic approaches, were also reviewed in details.
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Mochizuki K, Kumamoto Y, Maeda S, Tanuma M, Kasai A, Takemura M, Harada Y, Hashimoto H, Tanaka H, Smith NI, Fujita K. High-throughput line-illumination Raman microscopy with multislit detection. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 14:1015-1026. [PMID: 36950233 PMCID: PMC10026569 DOI: 10.1364/boe.480611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Raman microscopy is an emerging tool for molecular imaging and analysis of living samples. Use of Raman microscopy in life sciences is, however, still limited because of its slow measurement speed for spectral imaging and analysis. We developed a multiline-illumination Raman microscope to achieve ultrafast Raman spectral imaging. A spectrophotometer equipped with a periodic array of confocal slits detects Raman spectra from a sample irradiated by multiple line illuminations. A comb-like Raman hyperspectral image is formed on a two-dimensional detector in the spectrophotometer, and a hyperspectral Raman image is acquired by scanning the sample with multiline illumination array. By irradiating a sample with 21 simultaneous illumination lines, we achieved high-throughput Raman hyperspectral imaging of mouse brain tissue, acquiring 1108800 spectra in 11.4 min. We also measured mouse kidney and liver tissue as well as conducted label-free live-cell molecular imaging. The ultrafast Raman hyperspectral imaging enabled by the presented technique will expand the possible applications of Raman microscopy in biological and medical fields.
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- Kentaro Mochizuki
- Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan
- These authors contributed equally
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- Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- These authors contributed equally
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- Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neuropharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neuropharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan
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- Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Laboratory of Molecular Neuropharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Molecular Research Center for Children’s Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Institute for Datability Science, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Department of Molecular Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan
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- Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Biophotonics Laboratory, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8566, Japan
- Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Advanced Photonics and Biosensing Open Innovation Laboratory, AIST-Osaka University, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Helal KM, Cahyadi H, Taylor JN, Okajima A, Tabata K, Kumamoto Y, Mochizuki K, Itoh Y, Takamatsu T, Tanaka H, Fujita K, Komatsuzaki T, Harada Y. Raman imaging of rat nonalcoholic fatty liver tissues reveals distinct biomolecular states. FEBS Lett 2023. [PMID: 36807196 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 12/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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An essential challenge in diagnosing states of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the early prediction of progression from nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) before the disease progresses. Histological diagnoses of NAFLD rely on the appearance of anomalous tissue morphologies, and it is difficult to segment the biomolecular environment of the tissue through a conventional histopathological approach. Here, we show that hyperspectral Raman imaging provides diagnostic information on NAFLD in rats, as spectral changes among disease states can be detected before histological characteristics emerge. Our results demonstrate that Raman imaging of NAFLD can be a useful tool for histopathologists, offering biomolecular distinctions among tissue states that cannot be observed through standard histopathological means.
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- Khalifa Mohammad Helal
- Graduate School of Life Science, Transdisciplinary Life Science Course, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.,Department of Mathematics, Comilla University, Cumilla, Bangladesh
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
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- Department of Medical Photonics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
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- Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Japan.,Transdimensional Life Imaging Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Japan.,Advanced Photonics and Biosensing Open Innovation Laboratory, AIST-Osaka University, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Science, Transdisciplinary Life Science Course, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.,Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.,Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR 6303 CNRS-Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon Cedex, France
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
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Hayakawa M, Taylor JN, Nakao R, Mochizuki K, Sawai Y, Hashimoto K, Tabata K, Kumamoto Y, Fujita K, Konishi E, Hirano S, Tanaka H, Komatsuzaki T, Harada Y. Lipid droplet accumulation and adipophilin expression in follicular thyroid carcinoma. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2023; 640:192-201. [PMID: 36521425 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Revised: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Follicular neoplasms of the thyroid include follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) and follicular thyroid adenoma (FTA). However, the differences in cytological findings between FTC and FTA remain undetermined. Here, we aimed to evaluate the accumulation of lipid droplets (LDs) and the expression of adipophilin (perilipin 2/ADRP/ADFP), a known LD marker, in cultured FTC cells. We also immunohistochemically compared adipophilin expression in the FTC and FTA of resected human thyroid tissues. Cultured FTC (FTC-133 and RO82W-1) possessed increased populations of LDs compared to thyroid follicular epithelial (Nthy-ori 3-1) cells. In vitro treatment with phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling inhibitors (LY294002, MK2206, and rapamycin) in FTC-133 cells downregulated the PI3K/Akt/mTOR/sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1 (SREBP1) signaling pathway, resulting in a significant reduction in LD accumulation. SREBP1 is a master transcription factor that controls lipid metabolism. Fluorescence immunocytochemistry revealed adipophilin expression in the LDs of FTC-133 cells. Immunohistochemical analysis of surgically resected human thyroid tissues revealed significantly increased expression of adipophilin in FTC compared with FTA and adjacent non-tumorous thyroid epithelia. Taken together, LDs and adipophilin were abundant in cultured FTC; the evaluation of adipophilin expression can help distinguish FTC from FTA in surgical specimens.
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- Michiyo Hayakawa
- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-Cho Kamigyo-Ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 20, Nishi 10, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 001-0020, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-Cho Kamigyo-Ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-Cho Kamigyo-Ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-Cho Kamigyo-Ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-Cho Kamigyo-Ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan; Graduate School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Kwansei Gakuin University, 1 Gakuen Uegahara, Sanda, Hyogo, 669-1330 Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 20, Nishi 10, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 001-0020, Japan
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- Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan; Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-Cho Kamigyo-Ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan; Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan; Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Advanced Photonics and Biosensing Open Innovation Laboratory, AIST-Osaka University, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Surgical Pathology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-Cho Kamigyo-Ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-Cho Kamigyo-Ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-Cho Kamigyo-Ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 20, Nishi 10, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 001-0020, Japan.
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Regulation, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-Cho Kamigyo-Ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan.
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