期刊
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
卷 116, 期 5, 页码 1164-1175出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.26910
关键词
arterial-venous specification; biophysical cues; functional maturation; human pluripotent stem cell-derived endothelial cells; microfluidics; shear stress
资金
- Singapore Ministry of Education [R-397-000-253-112, R-397-000-217-112]
- Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology [R-719-004-100-305]
Human pluripotent stem cell-derived endothelial cells (hPSC-ECs) present an attractive alternative to primary EC sources for vascular grafting. However, there is a need to mature them towards either an arterial or venous subtype. A vital environmental factor involved in the arteriovenous specification of ECs during early embryonic development is fluid shear stress; therefore, there have been attempts to employ adult arterial shear stress conditions to mature hPSC-ECs. However, hPSC-ECs are naive to fluid shear stress, and their shear responses are still not well understood. Here, we used a multiplex microfluidic platform to systematically investigate the dose-time shear responses on hPSC-EC morphology and arterial-venous phenotypes over a range of magnitudes coincidental with physiological levels of embryonic and adult vasculatures. The device comprised of six parallel cell culture chambers that were individually linked to flow-setting resistance channels, allowing us to simultaneously apply shear stress ranging from 0.4 to 15 dyne/cm(2). We found that hPSC-ECs required up to 40 hr of shear exposure to elicit a stable phenotypic change. Cell alignment was visible at shear stress <1 dyne/cm(2), which was independent of shear stress magnitude and duration of exposure. We discovered that the arterial markers NOTCH1 and EphrinB2 exhibited a dose-dependent increase in a similar manner beyond a threshold level of 3.8 dyne/cm(2), whereas the venous markers COUP-TFII and EphB4 expression remained relatively constant across different magnitudes. These findings indicated that hPSC-ECs were sensitive to relatively low magnitudes of shear stress, and a critical level of similar to 4 dyne/cm(2) was sufficient to preferentially enhance their maturation into an arterial phenotype for future vascular tissue engineering applications.
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