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Environmental Specification of Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Endothelial Cells Toward Arterial and Venous Subtypes

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العنوان: Environmental Specification of Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Endothelial Cells Toward Arterial and Venous Subtypes
المؤلفون: Seep Arora, Evelyn K. F. Yim, Yi-Chin Toh
المصدر: Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Vol 7 (2019)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: LCC:Biotechnology
مصطلحات موضوعية: human pluripotent stem cells, endothelial cells, substrate topography, shear stress, arterial specification, functional maturation, Biotechnology, TP248.13-248.65
الوصف: Endothelial cells (ECs) are required for a multitude of cardiovascular clinical applications, such as revascularization of ischemic tissues or endothelialization of tissue engineered grafts. Patient derived primary ECs are limited in number, have donor variabilities and their in vitro phenotypes and functions can deteriorate over time. This necessitates the exploration of alternative EC sources. Although there has been a recent surge in the use of pluripotent stem cell derived endothelial cells (PSC-ECs) for various cardiovascular clinical applications, current differentiation protocols yield a heterogeneous EC population, where their specification into arterial or venous subtypes is undefined. Since arterial and venous ECs are phenotypically and functionally different, inappropriate matching of exogenous ECs to host sites can potentially affect clinical efficacy, as exemplified by venous graft mismatch when placed into an arterial environment. Therefore, there is a need to design and employ environmental cues that can effectively modulate PSC-ECs into a more homogeneous arterial or venous phenotype for better adaptation to the host environment, which will in turn contribute to better application efficacy. In this review, we will first give an overview of the developmental and functional differences between arterial and venous ECs. This provides the foundation for our subsequent discussion on the different bioengineering strategies that have been investigated to varying extent in providing biochemical and biophysical environmental cues to mature PSC-ECs into arterial or venous subtypes. The ability to efficiently leverage on a combination of biochemical and biophysical environmental cues to modulate intrinsic arterio-venous specification programs in ECs will greatly facilitate future translational applications of PSC-ECs. Since the development and maintenance of arterial and venous ECs in vivo occur in disparate physio-chemical microenvironments, it is conceivable that the application of these environmental factors in customized combinations or magnitudes can be used to selectively mature PSC-ECs into an arterial or venous subtype.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2296-4185
01976923
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00143/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-4185
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00143
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/22e2bd51a6a24e5598bcafb019769232
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.22e2bd51a6a24e5598bcafb019769232
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:22964185
01976923
DOI:10.3389/fbioe.2019.00143