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TISSUE ENGINEERING PART C-METHODS
Volume 22, Issue 11, Pages 1049-1057Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2016.0261
Keywords
adult stem cells; lung; trachea; tissue engineering; human; mouse
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- European Union [668294]
- American Heart Association [13SDG16920101]
- Saban Research Institute
- H2020 Societal Challenges Programme [668294] Funding Source: H2020 Societal Challenges Programme
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The cellular and molecular mechanisms that underpin regeneration of the human lung are unknown, and the study of lung repair has been impeded by the necessity for reductionist models that may exclude key components. We hypothesized that multicellular epithelial and mesenchymal cell clusters or lung organoid units (LuOU) could be transplanted to recapitulate proximal and distal cellular structures of the native lung and airways. Transplantation of LuOU resulted in the growth of tissue-engineered lung (TELu) that contained the necessary cell types consistent with native adult lung tissue and demonstrated proliferative cells at 2 and 4 weeks. This technique recapitulated important elements of both mouse and human lungs featuring key components of both the proximal and distal lung regions. When LuOU were generated from whole lung, TELu contained key epithelial and mesenchymal cell types, and the origin of the cells was traced from both Actin(GFP) and SPCGFP donors to indicate that the cells in TELu were derived from the transplanted LuOU. Alveolar epithelial type 2 cells (AEC2s), club cells, ciliated cells marked by beta-tubulin IV, alveolar epithelial type I cells, Sox-2-positive proximal airway progenitors, p63-positive basal cells, and CGRP-positive pulmonary neuroendocrine cells were identified in the TELu. The mesenchymal components of peribronchial smooth muscle and nerve were identified with a CD31-positive donor endothelial cell contribution to TELu vasculature. TELu successfully grew from postnatal tissues from whole murine and human lung, distal murine lung, as well as murine and human trachea. These data support a model of postnatal lung regeneration containing the diverse cell types present in the entirety of the respiratory tract.
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