Diabetic Conditions Confer Metabolic and Structural Modifications to Tissue-Engineered Skeletal Muscle
Diabetic Conditions Confer Metabolic and Structural Modifications to Tissue-Engineered Skeletal Muscle
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DOI:
10.1089/ten.tea.2020.0138
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发表时间:
2020-10-06
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Rathbone, Christopher R.
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作者:
Acosta, Francisca M.;Jia, U-Ter Aonda;Rathbone, Christopher R.
Skeletal muscle is a tissue that is directly involved in the progression and persistence of type 2 diabetes (T2D), a disease that is becoming increasingly common. Gaining better insight into the mechanisms that are affecting skeletal muscle dysfunction in the context of T2D has the potential to lead to novel treatments for a large number of patients. Through its ability to emulate skeletal muscle architecture while also incorporating aspects of disease, tissue-engineered skeletal muscle (TE-SkM) has the potential to provide a means for rapid high-throughput discovery of therapies to treat skeletal muscle dysfunction, to include that which occurs with T2D. Muscle precursor cells isolated from lean or obese male Zucker diabetic fatty rats were used to generate TE-SkM constructs. Some constructs were treated with adipogenic induction media to accentuate the presence of adipocytes that is a characteristic feature of T2D skeletal muscle. The maturity (compaction and creatine kinase activity), mechanical integrity (Young's modulus), organization (myotube orientation), and metabolic capacity (insulin-stimulated glucose uptake) were all reduced by diabetes. Treating constructs with adipogenic induction media increased the quantity of lipid within the diabetic TE-SkM constructs, and caused changes in construct compaction, cell orientation, and insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in both lean and diabetic samples. Collectively, the findings herein suggest that the recapitulation of structural and metabolic aspects of T2D can be accomplished by engineering skeletal musclein vitro. Impact Statement The tissue engineering of skeletal muscle to model disease and injury has great promise to provide a tool to develop and/or improve therapeutic approaches for improved health care. A tissue-engineered skeletal muscle model of one of the most common and debilitating diseases, type 2 diabetes, has been developedin vitroas evidenced by the structural and metabolic alterations that are consistent with the disease phenotypein vivo.