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Rispoli P, Scandiuzzi Piovesan T, Decorti G, Stocco G, Lucafò M. iPSCs as a groundbreaking tool for the study of adverse drug reactions: A new avenue for personalized therapy. WIREs Mech Dis 2024; 16:e1630. [PMID: 37770042 DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Revised: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
Abstract
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), obtained by reprogramming different somatic cell types, represent a promising tool for the study of drug toxicities, especially in the context of personalized medicine. Indeed, these cells retain the same genetic heritage of the donor, allowing the development of personalized models. In addition, they represent a useful tool for the study of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in special populations, such as pediatric patients, which are often poorly represented in clinical trials due to ethical issues. Particularly, iPSCs can be differentiated into any tissue of the human body, following several protocols which use different stimuli to induce specific differentiation processes. Differentiated cells also maintain the genetic heritage of the donor, and therefore are suitable for personalized pharmacological studies; moreover, iPSC-derived differentiated cells are a valuable tool for the investigation of the mechanisms underlying the physiological differentiation processes. iPSCs-derived organoids represent another important tool for the study of ADRs. Precisely, organoids are in vitro 3D models which better represent the native organ, both from a structural and a functional point of view. Moreover, in the same way as iPSC-derived 2D models, iPSC-derived organoids are appropriate personalized models since they retain the genetic heritage of the donor. In comparison to other in vitro models, iPSC-derived organoids present advantages in terms of versatility, patient-specificity, and ethical issues. This review aims to provide an updated report of the employment of iPSCs, and 2D and 3D models derived from these, for the study of ADRs. This article is categorized under: Cancer > Stem Cells and Development.
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Affiliation(s)
- Paola Rispoli
- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
- Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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Tamai M, Adachi E, Kawase M, Tagawa YI. Syngeneic implantation of mouse hepatic progenitor cell-derived three-dimensional liver tissue with dense collagen fibrils. World J Gastroenterol 2022; 28:1444-1454. [PMID: 35582675 PMCID: PMC9048472 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v28.i14.1444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2021] [Revised: 04/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Liver transplantation is a therapy for irreversible liver failure; however, at present, donor organs are in short supply. Cell transplantation therapy for liver failure is still at the developmental stage and is critically limited by a shortage of human primary hepatocytes.
AIM To investigate the possibility that hepatic progenitor cells (HPCs) prepared from the portal branch-ligated hepatic lobe may be used in regenerative medicine, we attempted to enable the implantation of extracellular matrices containing organoids consisting of HPC-derived hepatocytes and non-parenchymal cells.
METHODS In vitro liver organoid tissue has been generated by accumulating collagen fibrils, fibroblasts, and HPCs on a mesh of polylactic acid fabric using a bioreactor; this was subsequently implanted into syngeneic wild-type mice.
RESULTS The in vitro liver organoid tissues generated transplantable tissues in the condensed collagen fibril matrix and were obtained from the mouse through partial hepatectomy.
CONCLUSION Liver organoid tissue was produced from expanded HPCs using an originally designed bioreactor system. This tissue was comparable to liver lobules, and with fibroblasts embedded in the network collagen fibrils of this artificial tissue, it is useful for reconstructing the hepatic interstitial structure.
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- Miho Tamai
- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama-shi 226-8501, Japan
- Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8586, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Morphology, Kitasato University, Yokohama-shi 319-3526, Japan
- Long-Term Care Health Facility Yasuragi, Ibaraki Zip or Postal Code, Japan
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- Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Shiga 526-0829, Japan
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama-shi 226-8501, Japan
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Li Y, Lu YY, Jia J, Fang M, Zhao L, Jiang Y, Shi Y, Tu PF, Guo XY. A Novel System for Evaluating the Inhibition Effect of Drugs on Cytochrome P450 Enzymes in vitro Based on Human-Induced Hepatocytes (hiHeps). Front Pharmacol 2021; 12:748658. [PMID: 34776966 PMCID: PMC8580884 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2021.748658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Cytochrome P450 (CYP) is the most important phase I drug-metabolizing enzyme, and the effect of drugs on CYP enzymes can lead to decreased pharmacological efficacy or enhanced toxicity of drugs, but there are many deficiencies in the evaluation models of CYP enzymes in vitro. Human-induced hepatocytes (hiHeps) derived from human fibroblasts by transdifferentiation have mature hepatocyte characteristics. The aim was to establish a novel evaluation system for the effect of drugs on CYP3A4, 1A2, 2B6, 2C9, and 2C19 in vitro based on hiHeps. Curcumin can inhibit many CYP enzymes in vitro, and so the inhibition of curcumin on CYP enzymes was compared by human liver microsomes, human hepatocytes, and hiHeps using UPLC-MS and the cocktail method. The results showed that the IC50 values of CYP enzymes in the hiHeps group were similar to those in the hepatocytes group, which proved the effectiveness and stability of the novel evaluation system in vitro. Subsequently, the evaluation system was applied to study the inhibitory activity of notoginseng total saponins (NS), safflower total flavonoids (SF), and the herb pair of NS–SF on five CYP enzymes. The mechanism of improving efficacy after NS and SF combined based on CYP enzymes was elucidated in vitro. The established evaluation system will become a powerful tool for the research of the effect of drugs on the activity of CYP enzymes in vitro, which has broad application prospects in drug research.
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- Yan Li
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Stem Cell Research Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Stem Cell Research Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Sakolish C, Luo YS, Valdiviezo A, Vernetti LA, Rusyn I, Chiu WA. Prediction of hepatic drug clearance with a human microfluidic four-cell liver acinus microphysiology system. Toxicology 2021; 463:152954. [PMID: 34543702 PMCID: PMC8585690 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2021.152954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Predicting human hepatic clearance remains a fundamental challenge in both pharmaceutical drug development and toxicological assessments of environmental chemicals, with concerns about both accuracy and precision of in vitro-derived estimates. Suggested sources of these issues have included differences in experimental protocols, differences in cell sourcing, and use of a single cell type, liver parenchymal cells (hepatocytes). Here we investigate the ability of human microfluidic four-cell liver acinus microphysiology system (LAMPS) to make predictions as to hepatic clearance for seven representative compounds: Caffeine, Pioglitazone, Rosiglitazone, Terfenadine, Tolcapone, Troglitazone, and Trovafloxacin. The model, whose reproducibility was recently confirmed in an inter-lab comparison, was constructed using primary human hepatocytes or human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived hepatocytes and 3 human cell lines for the endothelial, Kupffer and stellate cells. We calculated hepatic clearance estimates derived from experiments using LAMPS or traditional 2D cultures and compared the outcomes with both in vivo human clinical study-derived and in vitro human hepatocyte suspension culture-derived values reported in the literature. We found that, compared to in vivo clinically-derived values, the LAMPS model with iPSC-derived hepatocytes had higher precision as compared to primary cells in suspension or 2D culture, but, consistent with previous studies in other microphysiological systems, tended to underestimate in vivo clearance. Overall, these results suggest that use of LAMPS and iPSC-derived hepatocytes together with an empirical scaling factor warrants additional study with a larger set of compounds, as it has the potential to provide more accurate and precise estimates of hepatic clearance.
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- Courtney Sakolish
- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA; Institute of Food Safety and Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan(1)
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- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Drug Discovery Institute and Department of Computational & Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
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Shibuya K, Watanabe M, Goto R, Zaitsu M, Ganchiku Y, Taketomi A. The Efficacy of the Hepatocyte Spheroids for Hepatocyte Transplantation. Cell Transplant 2021; 30:9636897211000014. [PMID: 33900126 PMCID: PMC8085376 DOI: 10.1177/09636897211000014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The safety and short-term efficacy of hepatocyte transplantation (HCTx) have been widely proven. However, issues such as reduced viability and/or function of hepatocytes, insufficient engraftment, and lack of a long-term effect have to be overcome for widespread application of HCTx. In this study, we evaluated hepatocyte spheroids (HSs), formed by self-aggregation of hepatocytes, as an alternative to hepatocytes in single-cell suspension. Hepatocytes were isolated from C57BL/6 J mice liver using a three-step collagenase perfusion technique and HSs were formed by the hanging drop method. After the spheroids formation, the HSs showed significantly higher mRNA expression of albumin, ornithine transcarbamylase, glucose-6-phosphate, alpha-1-antitrypsin, low density lipoprotein receptor, coagulation factors, and apolipoprotein E (ApoE) than 2 dimensional (2D)-cultured hepatocytes (p < 0.05). Albumin production by HSs was significantly higher than that by 2D-cultured hepatocytes (9.5 ± 2.5 vs 3.5 ± 1.8 μg/dL, p < 0.05). The HSs, but not single hepatocytes, maintained viability and albumin mRNA expression in suspension (92.0 ± 2.8% and 1.03 ± 0.09 at 6 h). HSs (3.6 × 106 cells) or isolated hepatocytes (fSH, 3.6 × 106 cells) were transplanted into the liver of ApoE knockout (KO-/-) mice via the portal vein. Following transplantation, serum ApoE concentration (ng/mL) of HS-transplanted mice (1w: 63.1 ± 56.7, 4w: 17.0 ± 10.9) was higher than that of fSH-transplanted mice (1 w: 33.4 ± 13.0, 4w: 13.7 ± 9.6). In both groups, the mRNA levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, IL-1β, TNF-α, MCP-1, and MIP-1β) were upregulated in the liver following transplantation; however, no significant differences were observed. Pathologically, transplanted HSs were observed as flat cell clusters in contact with the portal vein wall on day 7. Additionally, ApoE positive cells were observed in the liver parenchyma distant from the portal vein on day 28. Our results indicate that HS is a promising alternative to single hepatocytes and can be applied for HCTx.
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- Kazuaki Shibuya
- Department of Gastroenterological surgery I, 12810Hokkaido university graduate school, kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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- Transplant surgery, 163693Hokkaido University Hospital, kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological surgery I, 12810Hokkaido university graduate school, kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological surgery I, 12810Hokkaido university graduate school, kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological surgery I, 12810Hokkaido university graduate school, kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterological surgery I, 12810Hokkaido university graduate school, kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan
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Ahmed U, Ahmed R, Masoud MS, Tariq M, Ashfaq UA, Augustine R, Hasan A. Stem cells based in vitro models: trends and prospects in biomaterials cytotoxicity studies. Biomed Mater 2021; 16:042003. [PMID: 33686970 DOI: 10.1088/1748-605x/abe6d8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
Advanced biomaterials are increasingly used for numerous medical applications from the delivery of cancer-targeted therapeutics to the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The issues of foreign body reactions induced by biomaterials must be controlled for preventing treatment failure. Therefore, it is important to assess the biocompatibility and cytotoxicity of biomaterials on cell culture systems before proceeding to in vivo studies in animal models and subsequent clinical trials. Direct use of biomaterials on animals create technical challenges and ethical issues and therefore, the use of non-animal models such as stem cell cultures could be useful for determination of their safety. However, failure to recapitulate the complex in vivo microenvironment have largely restricted stem cell cultures for testing the cytotoxicity of biomaterials. Nevertheless, properties of stem cells such as their self-renewal and ability to differentiate into various cell lineages make them an ideal candidate for in vitro screening studies. Furthermore, the application of stem cells in biomaterials screening studies may overcome the challenges associated with the inability to develop a complex heterogeneous tissue using primary cells. Currently, embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, and induced pluripotent stem cells are being used as in vitro preliminary biomaterials testing models with demonstrated advantages over mature primary cell or cell line based in vitro models. This review discusses the status and future directions of in vitro stem cell-based cultures and their derivatives such as spheroids and organoids for the screening of their safety before their application to animal models and human in translational research.
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- Uzair Ahmed
- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000 Punjab, Pakistan
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