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Myelinated Rodent Brain Spheroids for High-throughput Evaluation of Neurotoxicity

有髓鞘啮齿动物脑球体用于神经毒性的高通量评估

基本信息

批准号：
10079810
负责人：
Jabe L Curley
金额：
$ 22.79万
依托单位：
AXOSIM, INC.
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-09-09 至 2022-02-28
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10079810
关键词：
3-Dimensional Advanced Development Animal Model Animal Testing Animals Astrocytes Award Behavioral Biological Biological Assay Biological Models Biological Process Biomimetics Blindness Brain Cell Culture Techniques Cell model Cells Characteristics Chemical Exposure Chemicals Clinical Cognitive deficits Confocal Microscopy Data Demyelinations Development Dose Electrophysiology (science)Embryo Engineering Environment Evaluation Functional disorder Funding Opportunities Goals Growth Hearing Human Human Biology Image Image Analysis Impaired cognition Impairment In Vitro Industrial Waste Industrialization Learning Legal patent Libraries Measures Memory Loss Methods Microelectrodes Modeling Motor Nervous system structure Neuraxis Neuroglia Neurons Neurosciences Oligodendroglia Organoids Pattern Peripheral Nervous System Phase Physiological Pilot Projects Positioning Attribute Reflex action Research Rodent Running Sensitivity and Specificity Sensory Structure Symptoms System Technology Testing Three-Dimensional Image Time Tissue Microarray Tissues Toxic Environmental Substances Toxic effect Toxicity Tests Toxicology Toxin Validation animal data base behavior test clinical predictors confocal imaging cytotoxicity data modeling dosage drug efficacy experimental study high throughput screening human tissue imaging system improved in vitro Assay in vivo induced pluripotent stem cell innovation medication safety microphysiology system microscopic imaging multi-electrode arrays neuron loss neuropathology neurotoxic neurotoxicity organ on a chip phase 1 study relating to nervous system response scale up screening stem cell technology three dimensional cell culture toxicant toxicant screening

项目摘要

Central nervous system (CNS) toxicity results in a wide variety of functional and behavioral changes in animal models such as cognitive impairments, learning/memory loss, hearing/vision loss, alterations in sensory/motor reflex, and several other dysfunctions. While behavioral tests and animal models are sensitive enough to predict human neurotoxicity, the expense and labor-intensiveness of animal testing make it challenging to screen large numbers of chemical compounds. While running behavioral tests is not possible in in vitro setting, some parameters that can be evaluated include cytotoxicity of neuronal and glial cell bodies, demyelination, or altered neuronal firing patterns, which many toxins are known to impact and ultimately results in behavioral/cognitive deficits. Recent advances in induced pluripotent stem cell technology have resulted in the development of human cells-based microphysiological systems that have shown tremendous promise as advanced cellular models that can provide high-throughput and high-content data useful for toxin screening. While human organoids are expected to predict human neurotoxicity better than animal models, the data generated using human organoids may not be reliable enough unless studies show that in vitro neurotoxicity successfully predicts in vivo cortical dysfunctions shown in the historical animal studies. To overcome these challenges and strengthen findings obtained by human brain organotypic culture systems, we have developed an innovative functionally mature 3D rodent brain spheroid model of consistent size and unvarying composition by culturing embryonic dissociated cortical tissue. The objective of this phase I study is to demonstrate that certain chemical toxins known for causing neurotoxicity in rodents will induce toxicity in micro-engineered neural tissue that can be quantified using 3D image analysis, neuronal firing patterns and histomorphometry. This goal will be achieved by quantifying discrete biological and electrical quantifiable metrics by which untreated brain spheroids can be demonstrated to differ significantly compared to treated controls. This goal will be accomplished in two phases: The research plan will consist of first developing and characterizing 3D rodent brain spheroids using high throughput confocal screening and microelectrode arrays for baseline biological and functional evaluation. (Aim 1). Then, we will compare biological and electrophysiological characteristics of cultured untreated spheroids with spheroids treated with environmental toxins to validate the assay in the presence of an insult (Aim 2). Successful completion of these aims will strongly position this technology for a Phase II award, in which we will seek to scale up fabrication and testing and fully validate the specificity and sensitivity of the clinically- analogous metrics with a larger library of compounds, as compared with animal data. We will further perform “omics” studies and will eventually use this assay for determining a large spectrum of toxicological parameters resulting in understanding mechanisms of action as well as improved understanding of biological processes.

中枢神经系统（CNS）毒性导致动物各种各样的功能和行为改变