PCOS and androgen-related disease modeling and drug testing in Multi-organ Integrated Microfluidic Reproductive Platform

多器官集成微流控生殖平台中的 PCOS 和雄激素相关疾病建模和药物测试

• 批准号: 10432418
• 负责人: Ji-Yong Julie Kim
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10432418
• 关键词: Affect; Androgens; Animals; Breast; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cells; Complex; Databases; Disease; Disease model; Endocrine Disruptors; Endocrine System Diseases; Endometrial Carcinoma; Endometrium; Etiology; Fatty acid glycerol esters; Functional disorder; Genetic; Goals; Health; Human; Hyperandrogenism; In Vitro; Infertility; Liver; Malignant neoplasm of ovary; Mammalian Oviducts; Metabolic; Microfluidics; Modeling; Morphology; Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus; Organ; Organ Model; Ovarian; Ovary; Pancreas; Pathology; Phenotype; Physiology; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Research; System; Systems Biology; Technology; Testing; Therapeutic; Tissue Engineering; Woman; aged; body system; data submission; drug testing; exposed human population; lifestyle factors; microphysiology system; reproductive

Supplement Project Summary Polycystic ovary syndrome is a heterogeneous endocrine disorder affecting between 5 and 15% of reproductive aged women and presents with a wide spectrum of phenotypes. It is typically characterized by hyperandrogenism and anovulatory infertility or polycystic ovarian morphologic features but also includes metabolic abnormalities and several other health complications such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, endometrial cancer, and ovarian cancer. Its etiology is multifactorial including environmental, genetic and lifestyle factors and current therapeutic strategies remain unsatisfactory. Studying this pathology is complicated further because of limitations in animal and in vitro PCOS models which are unable to fully replicate the human physiology. Moreover, since many endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are implicated in the pathophysiology of several diseases, a system that can test combinations of multiple EDCs at various concentrations, indicative of typical of human exposures, is needed. Our current research effort has been to deploy a dynamic microfluidic platform, called LATTICE, comprised of an integrated network of explants and of tissue-engineered organ models relevant to PCOS pathophysiology, including ovary, liver, pancreas, fat, endometrium, fallopian tube, and breast. Given the versatility of Lattice, this platform can be used to study any microphysiological system, in the normal and diseased contexts. Up to 8 different organ systems can be studied in one plate. This supplement will enable the deposition of data regarding Lattice and its abilities to the broader MPS database. This unique and versatile technology is research and pharma-friendly and will change the way in vitro studies are done to understand systems biology as well as test compounds in a platform that houses the essential organ systems of the body.

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