{"title":"Proinflammatory cytokines suppress stemness-related properties and expression of tight junction in canine intestinal organoids.","authors":"Meg Nakazawa, Itsuma Nagao, Yoko M Ambrosini","doi":"10.1007/s11626-024-00936-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11626-024-00936-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent advancements in canine intestinal organoid research have paved the way for the development of enhanced in vitro models, crucial for exploring intestinal physiology and diseases. Despite these strides, there is a notable gap in creating specific in vitro models that focus on intestinal inflammation. Our study aims to bridge this gap by investigating the impact of proinflammatory cytokines on canine intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) within the context of organoid models. Canine intestinal organoids were treated with proinflammatory cytokines TNF-α, IFN-γ, and IL-1β. The expression of stem cell markers Lgr5, Sox9, Hopx, and Olfm4 was evaluated through RT-qPCR, while membrane integrity was assessed using immunofluorescence staining for tight junction proteins and transport assays for permeability. IFN-γ significantly decreased Lgr5 expression, a key intestinal stem cell marker, at both 24 and 48 h post-treatment (p=0.030 and p=0.002, respectively). Conversely, TNF-α increased Olfm4 expression during the same intervals (p=0.018 and p=0.011, respectively). A reduction in EdU-positive cells, indicative of decreased cell proliferation, was observed following IFN-γ treatment. Additionally, a decrease in tight junction proteins E-cadherin and ZO-1 (p<0.001 and p=0.003, respectively) and increased permeability in IECs (p=0.012) were noted, particularly following treatment with IFN-γ. The study highlights the profound impact of proinflammatory cytokines on canine IECs, influencing both stem cell dynamics and membrane integrity. These insights shed light on the intricate cellular processes underlying inflammation in the gut and open avenues for more in-depth research into the long-term effects of inflammation on intestinal health.</p>","PeriodicalId":13340,"journal":{"name":"In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal","volume":" ","pages":"916-925"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11419940/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141446034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adauto Lima Cardoso, Jordana Inácio Nascimento Oliveira, João Pedro Silva Climaco, Natália Bortholazzi Venturelli, Camila do Nascimento Moreira, Cesar Martins
{"title":"Conditions for establishing fin primary cell cultures in a wide range of ray-finned fishes.","authors":"Adauto Lima Cardoso, Jordana Inácio Nascimento Oliveira, João Pedro Silva Climaco, Natália Bortholazzi Venturelli, Camila do Nascimento Moreira, Cesar Martins","doi":"10.1007/s11626-024-00963-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11626-024-00963-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) represent the most diverse vertebrate lineage that show extensive variations in physiology, ways of life, and adaptations to marine and freshwater environments, and several species have been established as biological research models. The in vitro culture of cells is fundamental for several fields of biological research, being an alternative for studies that use animals. Hundreds of fish cell lines have been established using specific methods for each cell type and species. Here is described a protocol which can be used commonly for obtaining cell cultures from the caudal fin of a wide range of ray-finned fishes including marine and freshwater species. Conditions for sample collection, microbial disinfection, tissue dissociation, plating and incubation, cryopreservation and thawing, and karyotyping are described in detail. Primary cell cultures were developed for 20 species grouped into 12 different orders. Eleven of these species have been cultivated in vitro for the first time. In the beginning, the fish cell cultures showed different capacities of proliferation among them; however throughout the passages, most cultures began to have a similar proliferation rate. Throughout the passages, it was noticed that cells similar to fibroblasts began to predominate. The great proliferative ability of these cultures reveals their potential to become cell lines. The culture of A. mexicanus, for example, has been proliferating for months and is already in its 65th passage. Moreover, these cell cultures showed conserved diploid chromosome numbers in comparison with in vivo descriptions which suggest these cultures have stable karyotypes. Therefore, these cultures have potential to be used in several fields, such as toxicology, cytogenetics, genomics, pathology, immunology, cellular agriculture, and conservation, and this method has the potential to be expanded to species not yet tested, as well as to other organs.</p>","PeriodicalId":13340,"journal":{"name":"In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141901597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth Urban-Gedamke, Megan Conkling, Cynthia Goodman, Xu Han, Shirley A Pomponi
{"title":"Novel use of a - 20°C cryoprotectant yields high viability and improved aggregation of marine sponge cells.","authors":"Elizabeth Urban-Gedamke, Megan Conkling, Cynthia Goodman, Xu Han, Shirley A Pomponi","doi":"10.1007/s11626-024-00959-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11626-024-00959-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13340,"journal":{"name":"In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141874691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Programmed cell death-1-modified pig developed using electroporation-mediated gene editing for in vitro fertilized zygotes.","authors":"Thanh-Van Nguyen, Lanh Thi Kim Do, Qingyi Lin, Megumi Nagahara, Zhao Namula, Manita Wittayarat, Maki Hirata, Takeshige Otoi, Fuminori Tanihara","doi":"10.1007/s11626-024-00869-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11626-024-00869-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) is an immunoinhibitory receptor required to suppress inappropriate immune responses such as autoimmunity. Immune checkpoint antibodies that augment the PD-1 pathway lead to immune-related adverse events (irAEs), organ non-specific side effects due to autoimmune activation in humans. In this study, we generated a PD-1 mutant pig using electroporation-mediated introduction of the CRISPR/Cas9 system into porcine zygotes to evaluate the PD-1 gene deficiency phenotype. We optimized the efficient guide RNAs (gRNAs) targeting PD-1 in zygotes and transferred electroporated embryos with the optimized gRNAs and Cas9 into recipient gilts. One recipient gilt became pregnant and gave birth to two piglets. Sequencing analysis revealed that both piglets were biallelic mutants. At 18 mo of age, one pig showed non-purulent arthritis of the left elbow/knee joint and oligozoospermia, presumably related to PD-1 modification. Although this study has a limitation because of the small number of cases, our phenotypic analysis of PD-1 modification in pigs will provide significant insight into human medicine and PD-1-deficient pigs can be beneficial models for studying human irAEs.</p>","PeriodicalId":13340,"journal":{"name":"In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal","volume":" ","pages":"716-724"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140131353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Han Wang, Chi Li, Longbo Zhu, Zhengqun Liu, Ning Li, Zi Zheng, Shiyue Liang, Jun Yan
{"title":"Adiponectin attenuates H2O2-induced apoptosis in chicken skeletal myoblasts through the lysosomal-mitochondrial axis.","authors":"Han Wang, Chi Li, Longbo Zhu, Zhengqun Liu, Ning Li, Zi Zheng, Shiyue Liang, Jun Yan","doi":"10.1007/s11626-024-00857-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11626-024-00857-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adiponectin has previously been investigated for exerting its protective effect against myocardial injury through anti-apoptotic and anti-oxidative actions. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the nature and mechanism of adiponectin inhibition of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>-induced apoptosis in chicken skeletal myoblasts. Skeletal muscle satellite cells were differentiated and assigned into three groups. Group C was on the blank control group, group H was stimulated with the H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> (500 μmol/L, 4 h) alone group, group A + H was pre-treated with adiponectin (10 μg/mL, 24 h) and stimulated with the H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> (500 μmol/L, 4 h) group. Cytotoxicity inhibited by adiponectin was evaluated by the CCK-8 assay. The degree of apoptosis and oxidative damage was investigated by the TdT-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) staining assays. Oxidative stress was assessed by evaluating lipid peroxidation, superoxide dismutase, and reduced glutathione. Acridine orange (AO) staining detected lysosomal membrane permeability. The changes in mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) were analyzed using 5,5,6,6'-tetrachloro-1,1,3,3-tetraethylimidacarbocyanine iodide (JC-1) dye under a fluorescence microscope. The lysosomal function, mitochondrial function, and apoptosis-related mRNA and protein expression levels were quantified by real-time quantitative PCR and western blot, respectively. The results suggested that adiponectin treatment attenuated H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>-induced cytotoxicity and oxidative stress in skeletal myoblasts. Compared with H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> treatment, TUNEL and ROS staining demonstrated lower apoptosis upon adiponectin treatment. AO staining confirmed the amelioration of lysosomal membrane damage, and JC-1 staining revealed an increase in mitochondrial membrane potential after adiponectin treatment. At the molecular level, adiponectin treatment inhibited the expression of the lysosomal apoptotic factors cathepsin B, chymotrypsin B, and the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway cytochrome-c (cyt-c) and caspase-8; decreased the apoptotic marker gene Bax; and increased the expression of the anti-apoptotic marker gene Bcl-2. Adiponectin treatment attenuated H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>-induced apoptosis in skeletal myoblasts, possibly by inhibiting oxidative stress and apoptosis through the lysosomal-mitochondrial axis.</p>","PeriodicalId":13340,"journal":{"name":"In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal","volume":" ","pages":"805-814"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139996132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bin Liu, Manita Wittayarat, Koki Takebayashi, Qingyi Lin, Nanaka Torigoe, Zhao Namula, Maki Hirata, Megumi Nagahara, Fuminori Tanihara, Takeshige Otoi
{"title":"Effects of centrifugation treatment before electroporation on gene editing in pig embryos.","authors":"Bin Liu, Manita Wittayarat, Koki Takebayashi, Qingyi Lin, Nanaka Torigoe, Zhao Namula, Maki Hirata, Megumi Nagahara, Fuminori Tanihara, Takeshige Otoi","doi":"10.1007/s11626-024-00926-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11626-024-00926-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Genetic mosaicism, characterized by multiple genotypes within an individual, is considered an obstacle to CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in animal models. Despite the various strategies for minimizing mosaic mutations, no definitive methods exist to eliminate them. This study aimed to enhance gene editing efficiency in porcine zygotes using CRISPR/Cas9, which targets specific genes through centrifugation and zona pellucida removal before electroporation. Centrifugation at 2000 × g did not adversely affect blastocyst formation rates in zygotes electroporated with gRNA targeting the GGTA1 gene; instead, it led to increased total and monoallelic mutation rates compared with control zygotes without centrifugation. However, the groups had no significant differences in biallelic mutation rates. In zygotes electroporated with gRNA targeting the CMAH gene, centrifugation treatments exceeding 1000 × g significantly increased both biallelic mutation rates and mutation efficiency. The combination of centrifugation and zona pellucida removal did not have a detrimental effect on blastocyst formation rates. It led to a higher rate of double biallelic mutations in embryos targeting both GGTA1 and CMAH compared to embryos without centrifugation treatment. In summary, our results demonstrate that pre-electroporation treatments, including centrifugation and zona pellucida removal, positively influenced the reduction of mosaic mutations, with the effectiveness of centrifugation depending on the specific gRNA used.</p>","PeriodicalId":13340,"journal":{"name":"In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Animal","volume":" ","pages":"732-739"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141236780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}