Publication Date:
2010-06-26
Description:
Because adult lung tissue has limited regeneration capacity, lung transplantation is the primary therapy for severely damaged lungs. To explore whether lung tissue can be regenerated in vitro, we treated lungs from adult rats using a procedure that removes cellular components but leaves behind a scaffold of extracellular matrix that retains the hierarchical branching structures of airways and vasculature. We then used a bioreactor to culture pulmonary epithelium and vascular endothelium on the acellular lung matrix. The seeded epithelium displayed remarkable hierarchical organization within the matrix, and the seeded endothelial cells efficiently repopulated the vascular compartment. In vitro, the mechanical characteristics of the engineered lungs were similar to those of native lung tissue, and when implanted into rats in vivo for short time intervals (45 to 120 minutes) the engineered lungs participated in gas exchange. Although representing only an initial step toward the ultimate goal of generating fully functional lungs in vitro, these results suggest that repopulation of lung matrix is a viable strategy for lung regeneration.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3640463/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3640463/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Petersen, Thomas H -- Calle, Elizabeth A -- Zhao, Liping -- Lee, Eun Jung -- Gui, Liqiong -- Raredon, MichaSam B -- Gavrilov, Kseniya -- Yi, Tai -- Zhuang, Zhen W -- Breuer, Christopher -- Herzog, Erica -- Niklason, Laura E -- HL 098220/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL098220/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL098220-01/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL098220-02/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM007171/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- T32 GM007171-26/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Jul 30;329(5991):538-41. doi: 10.1126/science.1189345. Epub 2010 Jun 24.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20576850" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Bioreactors
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Detergents
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Endothelial Cells/cytology/physiology
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Epithelial Cells/cytology/physiology
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*Extracellular Matrix/physiology
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Humans
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*Lung/blood supply/cytology/physiology
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Lung Compliance
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Lung Transplantation
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Male
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Pulmonary Alveoli/blood supply/ultrastructure
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Pulmonary Gas Exchange
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Rats
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Rats, Inbred F344
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*Regeneration
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Respiratory Mucosa/cytology
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Tissue Engineering/*methods
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Tissue Scaffolds
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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