Project description:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) influence one of third population around the world. Until now, no effective treatments have been established due to the improper in vitro assays and experimental animal models. By co-culturing human gut and liver cell lines (CaCO2 and HepG2 cells, respectively) interconnected via the microfluidic closed medium circulation loop, we created a gut-liver-on-a-chip (iGLC) platform as an in vitro human model of the gut-liver axis (GLA) in initiation and progression of NAFLD.
Project description:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) influence one of third population around the world. Until now, no effective treatments have been established due to the improper in vitro assays and experimental animal models. By co-culturing human gut and liver cell lines (CaCO2 and HepG2 cells, respectively) interconnected via the microfluidic closed medium circulation loop, we created a gut-liver-on-a-chip (iGLC) platform as an in vitro human model of the gut-liver axis (GLA) in initiation and progression of NAFLD.
Project description:A source of functioning hepatocytes for liver cell transplantation and liver support is in need. hESCs , when transplanted, generally form teratomas. We studied capacity of hESCs to differentiate to hepatocyte like cells under the effect of in vivo liver regeneration. In SCID-Beige mice hepatocyte replication peaked 48 hours after CCl4 injection; 24 hours earlier 106 hESCs or EBs at different stages of differentiation were transplanted into the spleen. Comparisons were made to teratomas formed in the hind limb of untreated animals. RT-PCR and gene microarray were used for liver and human specific markers. Immunohistochemistry to AFP,AAT, ALB, HEP-PAR I AND CK-18,19 were performed. EBs formed a single large teratoma in the spleen and small teratomas in the liver. Expression of PCR- identified liver specific markers was greater in the spleen than in the liver. Adult hepatocyte specific markers were expressed in the hind limb teratoma excised after 7 weeks. When late EBs were transplanted before CCl4 exposure, no teratomas formed. Rather, an abundance of probably undifferentiated ectodermal origin cells presented. In this descriptive study, transplanted early human EBs formed teratomas that differed in size and molecular markers. Within teratomas, the degree of maturation into hepatocytes correlated better with the time duration in vivo than with growth stimulation. Late EBs formed non differentiated ectodermal cells only in a regenerative microenvironment. 4 samples were analyzed. Clean mouse liver used as neg. control. Mouse liver injected with CCl4 and transplanted with late Ebs, tumor was not observed. Two mouse livers injected with CCl4 and transplanted with late Ebs, tumor was observed.
Project description:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) are two main forms liver cancers with poor prognosis. Models for studying HCC and ICC development using human liver cells are urgently needed. Organoids serve as in vitro models for cancer studies as it recapitulates in vivo structures and microenvironment of solid tumors. Herein, we established liver cancer organoid models by introducing specific mutations into human induced hepatocyte (hiHep)-derived organoids. c-MYC and hRASG12V overexpression in hiHep organoids with repressed p53 activation by large T led to distinct HCC and ICC signatures. With these oncogenic mutations, the neoplastic hiHep organoids formed cancerous structures and possessed cancer-specific hallmarks. Comprehensive transcriptional analysis of liver cancer organoids revealed genes and pathways with disease-stage-specific alterations. Notably, with RAS mutations, hiHep organoids acquired biliary trans-differentiation, and showed a process of conversion from hepatocytes to ICC. To sum up, we have established a useful and convenient in vitro human organoid systems modeling liver cancer development.
Project description:A source of functioning hepatocytes for liver cell transplantation and liver support is in need. hESCs , when transplanted, generally form teratomas. We studied capacity of hESCs to differentiate to hepatocyte like cells under the effect of in vivo liver regeneration. In SCID-Beige mice hepatocyte replication peaked 48 hours after CCl4 injection; 24 hours earlier 106 hESCs or EBs at different stages of differentiation were transplanted into the spleen. Comparisons were made to teratomas formed in the hind limb of untreated animals. RT-PCR and gene microarray were used for liver and human specific markers. Immunohistochemistry to AFP,AAT, ALB, HEP-PAR I AND CK-18,19 were performed. EBs formed a single large teratoma in the spleen and small teratomas in the liver. Expression of PCR- identified liver specific markers was greater in the spleen than in the liver. Adult hepatocyte specific markers were expressed in the hind limb teratoma excised after 7 weeks. When late EBs were transplanted before CCl4 exposure, no teratomas formed. Rather, an abundance of probably undifferentiated ectodermal origin cells presented. In this descriptive study, transplanted early human EBs formed teratomas that differed in size and molecular markers. Within teratomas, the degree of maturation into hepatocytes correlated better with the time duration in vivo than with growth stimulation. Late EBs formed non differentiated ectodermal cells only in a regenerative microenvironment.
Project description:The Human Liver Microsomal assay takes into account the liver-mediated drug metabolism to assess the stability of a compound in the human body. The NIH-NCATS group took a proprietary dataset of 4300 compounds with its associated HLM (in vitro half-life; unstable ≤ 30 min, stable >30 min) and used it to train a classifier.
Model Type: Machine learning model.
Model Relevance: Probability of a compound being unstable in a HLM assay.
Model Encoded by: Pauline Banye (Ersilia)
Metadata Submitted in BioModels by: Zainab Ashimiyu-Abdusalam
Implementation of this model code by Ersilia is available here:
https://github.com/ersilia-os/eos31ve
Project description:The human liver cytosol stability model is used for predicting the stability of a drug in the cytosol of human liver cells, which is beneficial for identifying potential drug candidates early during the drug discovery process. If a drug compound is quickly absorbed, it may not reach the intended target in the body or become toxic. On the other hand, if a drug compound is too stable, it could accumulate and cause detrimental effects. The authors use an NCATS dataset of 1450 compounds screened in vitro in mouse and human cytosol fractions. Compounds were classified as stable (half-life > 30min) or unstable (half-life ≤ 30 min). Note that authors report the dataset was biased towards stable compounds.
Model Type: Machine learning model.
Model Relevance: Predicts probability of a compound stability due to liver cells metabolism.
Model Encoded by: Pauline (Ersilia)
Metadata Submitted in BioModels by: Zainab Ashimiyu-Abdusalam
Implementation of this model code by Ersilia is available here:
https://github.com/ersilia-os/eos9yy1
Project description:Background & aims: Polycystic liver disease (PLD) is an autosomal dominantly inherited disorder caused by mutations in genes such as PRKCSH and SEC63. It has been thought that cysts develop from biliary progenitor cells due to loss-of-heterozygosity (LOH), leading to aberrant proliferation or defects in differentiation. Cyst expansion can be suppressed by somatostatin analogues such as lanreotide. There is no human in vitro model available that truly recapitulates polycystic liver disease. We hypothesize that PLD progenitors can form bipotent liver organoids that carry key features of cyst development. To find gene expression differences between Human Polycystic Liver Disease and Normal Biliary Stem Cells. Methods: Cells from normal biliary duct (n=6), cyst biliary epithelium (n=60) and cyst fluid (n=31) were isolated and placed under conditions suitable for expansion of human adult liver stem cells. We analyzed genetic LOH, gene expression, differentiation capacity, response to lanreotide and cilium formation of these organoids. Results: Cholangiocytes from cyst biliary epithelium (47/60) and cyst fluid (9/31) proved capable of expanding as bipotent liver organoids. Multiple cyst organoids displayed LOH surrounding PRKCSH or SEC63 regions. Organoids formed cilia when proliferation was inhibited. Neither hepatocyte nor biliary differentiation of PLD organoids was impaired. RNAseq revealed no significantly dysregulated pathway in PLD organoids. Lanreotide significantly decreased expansion of liver organoids in comparison to negative control (197% ± 46% versus 547% ± 28%; p: 0.038). Conclusion & discussion: Biliary progenitor cells from patient cyst epithelium and fluid can expand into liver organoids. They recapitulate key characteristics of PLD, and are a promising human in vitro model for research, diagnostics and treatment of polycystic liver diseases and cholangiociliopathies.