Project description:The individualized treatment of tumors has always been an urgent problem in clinical practice. Organoids-on-a-chip can reflect the heterogeneity of tumors and is a good model for in vitro anticancer drug screening. In this study, surgical specimens of patients with advanced colorectal cancer will be collected for organoid culture and organoids-on-a- chip. Use organoids-on-a-chip to screen tumor chemotherapy drugs, compare the results of patients’ actual medication regimens, and study the guiding role of organoids in the formulation of precise tumor treatment plans. The investigators will compare the response of organoids to drugs in vitro with the patient’s response to actual chemotherapy and targeted drugs and explore the feasibility and accuracy of organoids-on-a-chip based drug screening for advanced colorectal cancer. The project will establish a screening platform for chemotherapeutic drugs and targeted drugs based on colorectal cancer organoids to quickly and accurately formulate personalized treatment plans for clinical patients.
Project description:Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is caused by mutations in the PKHD1 gene in both humans and the orthologous PCK rat model. Although ARPKD results solely from PKHD1 mutations, the disease onset and severity are highly variable, indicating that other unknown genetic risk factor(s) modify ARPKD-associated phenotypes. To identify genetic modifiers of ARPKD severity, we created two genetically distinct Pkhd1 congenic rat strains on the Fawn-Hooded Hypertensive (FHH) and the Dahl S (SS) rat backgrounds (denoted FHH.Pkhd1 and SS.Pkhd1, respectively) that harbor the PCK-derived Pkhd1 allele. The FHH.Pkhd1 and SS.Pkhd1 strains had lower renal cyst formation at 30 days-of-age (5±2% and 8±2% cystic, respectively; P<0.001) compared to the PCK kidneys (26±4% cystic), which coincided with significantly reduced kidney weights in the FHH.Pkhd1 and SS.Pkhd1. Liver cyst formation and liver weight did not differ between PCK, FHH.Pkhd1, and SS.Pkhd1. These data indicated that the PCK genome harbors genetic modifier(s) of ARPKD severity that are not present in the FHH and SS genomes. Using high density SNP array genotyping and microarray expression analysis, we identified 50 potential modifiers of ARPKD severity in the PCK rat. Of these candidates, a damaging nonsynonymous variant in Nphp4 stood out as the most likely candidate based on variant segregation, protein modeling, network analysis, and gene ontology. Nphp4 is widely associated with the autosomal recessive cilliopathy and nephronopthisis, but had not been previously implicated in the molecular or cellular pathophysiology of ARPKD. Collectively, these data provide genetic evidence of disease modifier(s) in the PCK model of ARPKD and prioritized multiple candidates, including NPHP4, for further investigation in ARPKD pathogenesis. In this study, we used microarray to analyze transcript expression in the kidneys of 30 day old SD (n=4), PCK (n=4), FHH (n=4), FHH.Pkhd1 (n=4), SS (n=4), and SS.Pkhd1 (n=4). Samples were pooled and the pooled samples were run in triplicate. The 30 day timepoint was chosen because the differences in renal cyst formation between PCK, FHH.Pkhd1, and SS.Pkhd1 were greatest at this timepoint. To account for genetic strain differences that do not contribute to ARPKD severity, gene expression of each cystic rat strain was compared to its parental strain.
Project description:Liver fibrosis usually involve different cell types interaction. Despite its devastating consequences, there are no treatments for liver fibrosis. Genome engineering and a human hepatic organoid system was used to produce the first naïve in vitro model including several crucial components contributed for liver fibrosis. Hepatic organoids engineered to express the most common causative mutation for Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD) developed abnormal bile ducts and hepatic fibrosis in only 21 days, which are the key features of ARPKD liver pathology. Singel cell level analysis indicated that the ARPKD mutation induced bile duct proliferation through several critial pathways, and appear to be actively involved in collagen fiber generation. Therefore, abnormal cholangiocytes promotes the expansion its counterpart , which collagen-producing myofibroblasts with a markedly increased level of PDGFRB protein expression and evidence of an activated STAT3 signalling pathway.
Project description:Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) is caused by mutations in the PKHD1 gene in both humans and the orthologous PCK rat model. Although ARPKD results solely from PKHD1 mutations, the disease onset and severity are highly variable, indicating that other unknown genetic risk factor(s) modify ARPKD-associated phenotypes. To identify genetic modifiers of ARPKD severity, we created two genetically distinct Pkhd1 congenic rat strains on the Fawn-Hooded Hypertensive (FHH) and the Dahl S (SS) rat backgrounds (denoted FHH.Pkhd1 and SS.Pkhd1, respectively) that harbor the PCK-derived Pkhd1 allele. The FHH.Pkhd1 and SS.Pkhd1 strains had lower renal cyst formation at 30 days-of-age (5±2% and 8±2% cystic, respectively; P<0.001) compared to the PCK kidneys (26±4% cystic), which coincided with significantly reduced kidney weights in the FHH.Pkhd1 and SS.Pkhd1. Liver cyst formation and liver weight did not differ between PCK, FHH.Pkhd1, and SS.Pkhd1. These data indicated that the PCK genome harbors genetic modifier(s) of ARPKD severity that are not present in the FHH and SS genomes. Using high density SNP array genotyping and microarray expression analysis, we identified 50 potential modifiers of ARPKD severity in the PCK rat. Of these candidates, a damaging nonsynonymous variant in Nphp4 stood out as the most likely candidate based on variant segregation, protein modeling, network analysis, and gene ontology. Nphp4 is widely associated with the autosomal recessive cilliopathy and nephronopthisis, but had not been previously implicated in the molecular or cellular pathophysiology of ARPKD. Collectively, these data provide genetic evidence of disease modifier(s) in the PCK model of ARPKD and prioritized multiple candidates, including NPHP4, for further investigation in ARPKD pathogenesis.
Project description:To reveal the key pathways involved in kidney cystogenesis. We performed single nuclei gene expression and ATAC profiling using kidney organoids from ARPKD patients-iPSCs derived organoids.
Project description:Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a devastating inherited kidney disease that is a major cause of kidney failure. Large fluid-filled cysts develop in the kidney and continually expand over time, damaging the surrounding tissue until renal replacement therapy is required. Because the development of cysts is the major feature of this disease, researchers have long sought to determine the composition of cystic fluid. To the best of our knowledge, no one has previously published the ion concentrations of cystic fluid from any PKD rodent models. The overall goal of this study was to characterize the cyst fluid composition of a rat model of ARPKD, the PCK rat. This model developed spontaneously from the Charles River Japan cesarean derived Sprague Dawley (Crj:CD/SD) strain and features a mutation in Pkhd1, the ortholog to the causative ARPKD gene in humans. In addition to analyzing cystic fluid, we complemented our metabolomics approach with transcriptomic analysis of male and female PCK rat kidney cortex tissue.