Modelling metabolic diseases and drug response using stem cells and organoids

W Hu, MA Lazar - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic diseases, including obesity, diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease, are a
major threat to health in the modern world, but efforts to understand the underlying …

Inflammasomes and pyroptosis of liver cells in liver fibrosis

C Gan, Q Cai, C Tang, J Gao - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Inflammasomes are multiprotein complexes that can sense danger signals and activate
caspase-1 to mediate pro-inflammatory cytokines release and pyroptotic cell death. There …

[HTML][HTML] MiR-690 treatment causes decreased fibrosis and steatosis and restores specific Kupffer cell functions in NASH

H Gao, Z Jin, G Bandyopadhyay, KC e Rocha, X Liu… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a liver disease associated with significant morbidity.
Kupffer cells (KCs) produce endogenous miR-690 and, via exosome secretion, shuttle this …

In vitro grafting of hepatic spheroids and organoids on a microfluidic vascular bed

F Bonanini, D Kurek, S Previdi, A Nicolas, D Hendriks… - Angiogenesis, 2022 - Springer
With recent progress in modeling liver organogenesis and regeneration, the lack of
vasculature is becoming the bottleneck in progressing our ability to model human hepatic …

[HTML][HTML] Mecheliolide elicits ROS-mediated ERS driven immunogenic cell death in hepatocellular carcinoma

Z Xu, J Xu, S Sun, W Lin, Y Li, Q Lu, F Li, Z Yang, Y Lu… - Redox Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
The nonnegligible reason for the poor prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is
resistance to conventional chemotherapy. Immunogenic cell death (ICD) is a rare …

[HTML][HTML] Developing tissue engineering strategies for liver regeneration

J Wang, D Huang, H Yu, Y Cheng, H Ren… - Engineered …, 2022 - Elsevier
The regenerative function of liver can be destroyed by viral infection, drug poisoning and
tumorigenesis, resulting in irreversible damage. Numerous approaches in promoting liver …

3D and organoid culture in research: physiology, hereditary genetic diseases and cancer

E Suarez-Martinez, I Suazo-Sanchez, M Celis-Romero… - Cell & Bioscience, 2022 - Springer
In nature, cells reside in tissues subject to complex cell–cell interactions, signals from
extracellular molecules and niche soluble and mechanical signaling. These …

Organoids in gastrointestinal diseases: from experimental models to clinical translation

C Günther, B Winner, MF Neurath, TS Stappenbeck - Gut, 2022 - gut.bmj.com
We are entering an era of medicine where increasingly sophisticated data will be obtained
from patients to determine proper diagnosis, predict outcomes and direct therapies. We …

Viscoelastic biomaterials for tissue regeneration

DT Wu, N Jeffreys, M Diba… - Tissue Engineering Part C …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
The extracellular matrix (ECM) mechanical properties regulate key cellular processes in
tissue development and regeneration. The majority of scientific investigation has focused on …

Advancing tissue decellularized hydrogels for engineering human organoids

BS Moura, MV Monteiro, LP Ferreira… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The extracellular matrix plays a critical role in bioinstructing cellular self‐assembly and
spatial (re) configuration processes that culminate in human organoids in vitro generation …