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Blanco-Elices C, Morales-Álvarez C, Chato-Astrain J, González-Gallardo C, Ávila-Fernández P, Campos F, Carmona R, Martín-Piedra MÁ, Garzón I, Alaminos M. Development of stromal differentiation patterns in heterotypical models of artificial corneas generated by tissue engineering. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2023; 11:1124995. [PMID: 37034263 PMCID: PMC10076743 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1124995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Purpose: We carried out a histological characterization analysis of the stromal layer of human heterotypic cornea substitutes generated with extra-corneal cells to determine their putative usefulness in tissue engineering. Methods: Human bioartificial corneas were generated using nanostructured fibrin-agarose biomaterials with corneal stromal cells immersed within. To generate heterotypical corneas, umbilical cord Wharton's jelly stem cells (HWJSC) were cultured on the surface of the stromal substitutes to obtain an epithelial-like layer. These bioartificial corneas were compared with control native human corneas and with orthotypical corneas generated with human corneal epithelial cells on top of the stromal substitute. Both the corneal stroma and the basement membrane were analyzed using histological, histochemical and immunohistochemical methods in samples kept in culture and grafted in vivo for 12 months in the rabbit cornea. Results: Our results showed that the stroma of the bioartificial corneas kept ex vivo showed very low levels of fibrillar and non-fibrillar components of the tissue extracellular matrix. However, in vivo implantation resulted in a significant increase of the contents of collagen, proteoglycans, decorin, keratocan and lumican in the corneal stroma, showing higher levels of maturation and spatial organization of these components. Heterotypical corneas grafted in vivo for 12 months showed significantly higher contents of collagen fibers, proteoglycans and keratocan. When the basement membrane was analyzed, we found that all corneas grafted in vivo showed intense PAS signal and higher contents of nidogen-1, although the levels found in human native corneas was not reached, and a rudimentary basement membrane was observed using transmission electron microscopy. At the epithelial level, HWJSC used to generate an epithelial-like layer in ex vivo corneas were mostly negative for p63, whereas orthotypical corneas and heterotypical corneas grafted in vivo were positive. Conclusion: These results support the possibility of generating bioengineered artificial corneas using non-corneal HWJSC. Although heterotypical corneas were not completely biomimetic to the native human corneas, especially ex vivo, in vivo grafted corneas demonstrated to be highly biocompatible, and the animal cornea became properly differentiated at the stroma and basement membrane compartments. These findings open the door to the future clinical use of these bioartificial corneas.
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Affiliation(s)
- Cristina Blanco-Elices
- Tissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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- GENYO, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research: Pfizer, University of Granada, Andalusian Regional Government, PTS Granada, Granada, Spain
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology III, Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Tissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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- Tissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Tissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Tissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
- *Correspondence: Miguel Ángel Martín-Piedra, ; Ingrid Garzón,
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- Tissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
- *Correspondence: Miguel Ángel Martín-Piedra, ; Ingrid Garzón,
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- Tissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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Cases-Perera O, Blanco-Elices C, Chato-Astrain J, Miranda-Fernández C, Campos F, Crespo PV, Sánchez-Montesinos I, Alaminos M, Martín-Piedra MA, Garzón I. Development of secretome-based strategies to improve cell culture protocols in tissue engineering. Sci Rep 2022; 12:10003. [PMID: 35705659 PMCID: PMC9200715 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-14115-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Advances in skin tissue engineering have promoted the development of artificial skin substitutes to treat large burns and other major skin loss conditions. However, one of the main drawbacks to bioengineered skin is the need to obtain a large amount of viable epithelial cells in short periods of time, making the skin biofabrication process challenging and slow. Enhancing skin epithelial cell cultures by using mesenchymal stem cells secretome can favor the scalability of manufacturing processes for bioengineered skin. The effects of three different types of secretome derived from human mesenchymal stem cells, e.g. hADSC-s (adipose cells), hDPSC-s (dental pulp) and hWJSC-s (umbilical cord), were evaluated on cultured skin epithelial cells during 24, 48, 72 and 120 h to determine the potential of this product to enhance cell proliferation and improve biofabrication strategies for tissue engineering. Then, secretomes were applied in vivo in preliminary analyses carried out on Wistar rats. Results showed that the use of secretomes derived from mesenchymal stem cells enhanced currently available cell culture protocols. Secretome was associated with increased viability, proliferation and migration of human skin epithelial cells, with hDPSC-s and hWJSC-s yielding greater inductive effects than hADSC-s. Animals treated with hWJSC-s and especially, hDPSC-s tended to show enhanced wound healing in vivo with no detectable side effects. Mesenchymal stem cells derived secretomes could be considered as a promising approach to cell-free therapy able to improve skin wound healing and regeneration.
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- O Cases-Perera
- Department of Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain.,Doctoral Program in Biomedicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Doctoral Program in Biomedicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.,Department of Histology (Tissue Engineering Group), Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Avenida de la Investigación 11, 18016, Granada, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria Ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Histology (Tissue Engineering Group), Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Avenida de la Investigación 11, 18016, Granada, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria Ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Histology (Tissue Engineering Group), Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Avenida de la Investigación 11, 18016, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Histology (Tissue Engineering Group), Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Avenida de la Investigación 11, 18016, Granada, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria Ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Histology (Tissue Engineering Group), Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Avenida de la Investigación 11, 18016, Granada, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria Ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria Ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain.,Department of Human Anatomy and Embryology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Histology (Tissue Engineering Group), Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Avenida de la Investigación 11, 18016, Granada, Spain. .,Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria Ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Histology (Tissue Engineering Group), Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Avenida de la Investigación 11, 18016, Granada, Spain. .,Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria Ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Histology (Tissue Engineering Group), Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Avenida de la Investigación 11, 18016, Granada, Spain.,Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria Ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain
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Sánchez-Porras D, Caro-Magdaleno M, González-Gallardo C, García-García ÓD, Garzón I, Carriel V, Campos F, Alaminos M. Generation of a Biomimetic Substitute of the Corneal Limbus Using Decellularized Scaffolds. Pharmaceutics 2021; 13:1718. [PMID: 34684011 PMCID: PMC8541096 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13101718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Patients with severe limbal damage and limbal stem cell deficiency are a therapeutic challenge. We evaluated four decellularization protocols applied to the full-thickness and half-thickness porcine limbus, and we used two cell types to recellularize the decellularized limbi. The results demonstrated that all protocols achieved efficient decellularization. However, the method that best preserved the transparency and composition of the limbus extracellular matrix was the use of 0.1% SDS applied to the half-thickness limbus. Recellularization with the limbal epithelial cell line SIRC and human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hADSCs) was able to generate a stratified epithelium able to express the limbal markers p63, pancytokeratin, and crystallin Z from day 7 in the case of SIRC and after 14-21 days of induction when hADSCs were used. Laminin and collagen IV expression was detected at the basal lamina of both cell types at days 14 and 21 of follow-up. Compared with control native limbi, tissues recellularized with SIRC showed adequate picrosirius red and alcian blue staining intensity, whereas limbi containing hADSCs showed normal collagen staining intensity. These preliminary results suggested that the limbal substitutes generated in this work share important similarities with the native limbus and could be potentially useful in the future.
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- David Sánchez-Porras
- Department of Histology and Tissue Engineering Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, E18016 Granada, Spain; (D.S.-P.); (Ó.D.G.-G.); (I.G.); (V.C.)
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- Division of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Virgen Macarena, Universidad de Sevilla, E41009 Seville, Spain;
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- Department of Histology and Tissue Engineering Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, E18016 Granada, Spain; (D.S.-P.); (Ó.D.G.-G.); (I.G.); (V.C.)
- Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine, Escuela Internacional de Posgrado, Universidad de Granada, E18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Histology and Tissue Engineering Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, E18016 Granada, Spain; (D.S.-P.); (Ó.D.G.-G.); (I.G.); (V.C.)
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- Department of Histology and Tissue Engineering Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, E18016 Granada, Spain; (D.S.-P.); (Ó.D.G.-G.); (I.G.); (V.C.)
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- Department of Histology and Tissue Engineering Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, E18016 Granada, Spain; (D.S.-P.); (Ó.D.G.-G.); (I.G.); (V.C.)
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- Department of Histology and Tissue Engineering Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Granada and Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, E18016 Granada, Spain; (D.S.-P.); (Ó.D.G.-G.); (I.G.); (V.C.)
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