Imaging glucose metabolism in perfluorocarbon-perfused hepatocyte bioreactors using positron emission tomography
Imaging glucose metabolism in perfluorocarbon-perfused hepatocyte bioreactors using positron emission tomography
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使用正电子发射断层扫描对全氟化碳灌注的肝细胞生物反应器中的葡萄糖代谢进行成像
DOI:
10.1007/s10047-009-0480-5
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
S. Merwe
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Nieuwoudt;Scholtz Wiggett;S. Malfeld;S. Merwe
In vitro hepatocyte bioreactor functionality depends particularly on maintaining appropriate oxygen levels and exposure to nonparenchymal cells. An attractive solution without immunological consequences to the patient is incorporating a perfluorocarbon oxygen carrier in the circulating medium and co-culturing hepatocytes with stellate cells. Since bioreactors are normally sealed sterile units, demonstrating metabolic functionality is hindered by limited access to the cells after their aggregation in the matrix. A novel possibility is to use positron emission tomography (PET) to image cellular radioactive glucose uptake under O2-limited conditions. In this study, primary cell isolation procedures were carried out on eight pigs. Pairs of cell-seeded and cell-free (control) bioreactors with and without perfluorocarbon were cultured under identical conditions and were oxygenated using hypoxic (5% O2) and ambient (20% O2) gas mixes. Sixteen PET scans were conducted 24 h after cell isolation, the same timescale as that involved in treating a liver failure patient with a primary-cell bioreactor. In all cases, cell-seeded bioreactors without perfluorocarbon were more radioactive, i.e., were more glycolytic, than those with perfluorocarbon. This difference was significant in the hypoxic pair of bioreactors but not in the ambient pair of bioreactors. Additionally, in the same hypoxic bioreactors, circulating extracellular steady-state glucose levels were significantly lower and lactate levels were higher than those in the ambient bioreactors. Similar findings have been made in other in vitro hepatocyte studies investigating the effects of perfluorocarbons. PET is attractive for studying in situ O2-dependent bioreactor metabolism because of its visual and numerically quantifiable outputs. Longer-term metabolic studies (e.g., 5–10 days) investigating the effect of perfluorocarbon on bioreactor longevity will complement these findings in the future.
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影响因子:
2.9
作者:
R. Rago;J. Mitchen;G. Wilding
通讯作者:
R. Rago;J. Mitchen;G. Wilding
DOI:
10.1007/10_029
发表时间:
2007-01-01
期刊:
TISSUE ENGINEERING II: BASICS OF TISSUE ENGINEERING AND TISSUE APPLICATIONS
影响因子:
--
作者:
Nahmias, Yaakov;Berthiaume, Francois;Yarmush, Martin L.
通讯作者:
Yarmush, Martin L.
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
Allen, JW;Khetani, SR;Bhatia, SN
通讯作者:
Bhatia, SN
影响因子:
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作者:
Powers, MJ;Janigian, DM;Griffith, LG
通讯作者:
Griffith, LG
影响因子:
3.8
作者:
Allen, JW;Bhatia, SN
通讯作者:
Bhatia, SN