Derivation of endometrial gland organoids from term placenta
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ABSTRACT: A limitation of current methods for the generation of endometrial gland organoids is their reliance on decidua isolated from endometrial biopsies or elective abortion. Here we report the establishment of endometrial gland organoids from decidua isolated from term placental membranes. These organoids express typical markers of glandular epithelia such as E-cadherin, Laminin and Cytokeratin 7, and can be propagated in cell culture through multiple passages. Additionally, we identified potential survival factors for the co-culture of organoids and endometrial stromal fibroblasts. These modifications facilitate the generation of patient-specific endometrial gland organoids with known pregnancy outcomes.
Project description:Endometrial gland cultures were established from human non-pregnant endometrium and decidua. We analysed the global gene expression profile of the human endometrial gland organoid cultures to assess the similarity of their molecular signature to the tissue of origin. Organoid cultures established from decidua were also included in the analysis to assess their similarity to endometrial dervied cultures.
Project description:H9 Pluripotent Stem Cells (PSC) were differentiated to Endometrial Stromal Fibroblasts (PSC-ESF) in monolayer over the course of 12 days. Gene expression was measured at day 0, day 4, day 8, and day 12 of differentiation. At day 12, PSC-ESF were dissociated from monolayer culture for co-culture with endometrial epithelial organoids established from term decidua. Gene expression was also measured after 26 days in co-culture (Cycle 1, vehicle or cAMP/progesterone/estradiol) and after 52 days in co-culture (Cycle 2, vehicle or cAMP/progesterone/estradiol)
Project description:To establish an in vitro endometrial co-culture model, endometrial organoid was co-cultured with endometrial stromal cells in a 3D hydrogel matrix. During this co-culture process, tubular gland development was identified from endometrial organoids, which showed the molecular, morphological and functional properties of human endometrial glands. To further characterize the genetic drive for this phenomenon, we conducted single-cell RNA sequencing analysis at day 1 and day 9 after co-culture.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of decidua samples from unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion patients and controls with induced abortions. The Infinium Human Methylation 850K BeadChip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 853,307 CpGs in decidua samples . Samples included 2 normal pregnant women (non-medical reasons for abortion) and 4 unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion patients.
Project description:Little is known about the adenogenesis of human endometrial glands. This study explored endometrial adenogenesis using a novel three-dimensional endometrial assembloid model that integrates human endometrial organoids (EOs) and human endometrial stromal cells (HESCs). The model effectively recapitulated endometrial tubular gland formation, underscoring the critical role of stromal-epithelial interactions. Transcriptomic analyses identified WNT7B as a key intrinsic regulator for EO-derived tubular gland formation, which is extrinsically regulated by TGFβ1-VDR interaction between HESCs and EOs. Estradiol stimulated endometrial gland development via WNT7B downregulation in EOs. This finding was validated in an estradiol-stimulated mouse model and clinical samples from women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles. Uterine-specific WNT7B knockout in mice further confirmed its inhibitory role in endometrial gland development. This study offers insights into endometrial adenogenesis and potential therapeutic targets for related endometrial disorders.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling of chorionic villi and decidua from recurrent miscarriage patients and artificial abortion controls. Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip was used.
Project description:We established patient-derived organoids and monolayer culture cells from the salivary gland cancer cases. To compare the RNA profiles of primary culture cells (Organoids and monolayer culture cells) and their parental tumors, we isolated total RNA from 2 cases of the salivary gland cancer and performed transcriptome sequencing for the organoids, monolayer culture cells, and their parental tumors of both cases. Case 6 is a case of adenoid cystic carcinoma and Case 11 is a case of salivary duct carcinoma.
Project description:We previously established long-term 3D organoid culture systems for several murine tissues (intestine, stomach, pancreas and liver) as well as human intestine and pancreas. Here, we describe culture conditions to generate long-term 3D culture from human gastric stem cells. The technology can be applied to study the epithelial response to infection with Helicobacter pylori. Human gastric cultures can expand indefinitely in 3D Matrigel. Cultures can be generated from normal tissue, from single sorted stem cells, or from tumor tissue. Organoids maintain many characteristics of the respective tissue in terms of histology, marker expression and euploidy. Organoids from normal tissue express markers of four lineages of the stomach and self-organize in gland and pit-domains. They can be directed to specifically express either lineages of the gastric gland, or the gastric pit by addition of Nicotinamide and withdrawal of Wnt. While gastric pit lineages react marginally to bacterial infection, gastric gland lineages mount a strong inflammatory response. The gastric culture system provides a unique tool to study gastric pathologies. We generated 2 sets of experiments. The first set contains organoids in 4 conditions: (1) organoids in expansion condition ENRWFGNiTi ("gland-type organoids") from 3 donors, (2) organoids as in 1 but differentiated for 4 days in differentiation condition ENR_FGNiTi ("pit'type organoids"), (3) organoids as in 1 but infected with Helicobacter pylori strain P12 MOI 50 for 2 h, (4) organoids as in 2 but infected as in 3. All 4 conditions were tested on the same organoid line in parallel. This experiment was conducted independently with cultures from 3 different donors. The second set of experiments compares freshly isolated glands with organoids. Samples from 2 patients were analyzed. Each patient received a total gastrectomy. From each patient, glands from corpus region or pyloric antrum were isolated. From each isolation, one aliquod was stored for microarray analysis and one aliquod used to generate organoids. Organoids and glands were subsequently lysed and analyzed in parallel.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of E6.0 wild type and Blimp1 mutant decidua, 14 hours after intraperitoneal injection with RU486 or mineral oil with was performed using RNA-seq to identify the role of Blimp1 in uterine remodelling and repair post abortion.