Rabbit thyroid extracellular matrix as a 3D bioscaffold for thyroid bioengineering: a preliminary in vitro study

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Mengying Xie¹  Peng Wang¹  Jie Weng¹  Zhiyi Wang¹  Zhiliang Zhou¹  Xiaoming Zhou¹  Chan Chen²  Liang Wang³  Bi Chen⁴  Duping Huang⁵  Zhibin Wang⁶  Jin Mei⁶  Xinlong Wan⁶ 

[1] Department of Emergency Medicine and General Practice, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University;Department of Geriatric Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University;Department of Public Health, Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences, Baylor University;Department of Surgical Oncology, Wenzhou People’s Hospital, The Wenzhou Third Clinical Institute Affiliated With Wenzhou Medical University;Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University;Institute of Bioscaffold Transplantation and Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University;

关键词: Thyroid gland;    Decellularization;    Extracellular matrix;    Scaffold;    Organ engineering;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12938-021-00856-w

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Background Advances in regenerative medicine technologies have been strongly proposed in the management of thyroid diseases. Mechanistically, the adoption of thyroid bioengineering requires a scaffold that shares a similar three-dimensional (3D) space structure, biomechanical properties, protein component, and cytokines to the native extracellular matrix (ECM). Methods 24 male New Zealand white rabbits were used in this experimental study. The rabbit thyroid glands were decellularized by immersion/agitation decellularization protocol. The 3D thyroid decellularization scaffolds were tested with histological and immunostaining analyses, scanning electron microscopy, DNA quantification, mechanical properties test, cytokine assay and cytotoxicity assays. Meanwhile, the decellularization scaffold were seeded with human thyroid follicular cells, cell proliferation and thyroid peroxidase were determined to explore the biocompatibility in vitro. Results Notably, through the imaging studies, it was distinctly evident that our protocol intervention minimized cellular materials and maintained the 3D spatial structure, biomechanical properties, ECM composition, and biologic cytokine. Consequently, the decellularization scaffold was seeded with human thyroid follicular cells, thus strongly revealing its potential in reinforcing cell adhesion, proliferation, and preserve important protein expression. Conclusions The adoption of our protocol to generate a decellularized thyroid scaffold can potentially be utilized in transplantation to manage thyroid diseases through thyroid bioengineering.

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