Patterned Gastrointestinal Monolayers with Bilateral Access As Observable Models of Parasite Gut Infection

Overview

Journal Nat Biomed Eng

Publisher Springer Nature

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2024 Dec 5

PMID 39633029

Authors

Moritz Hofer

Maria A Duque-Correa

Matthias P Lutolf

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Abstract

Organoids for modelling the physiology and pathology of gastrointestinal tissues are constrained by a poorly accessible lumen. Here we report the development and applicability of bilaterally accessible organoid-derived patterned epithelial monolayers that allow the independent manipulation of their apical and basal sides. We constructed gastric, small-intestinal, caecal and colonic epithelial models that faithfully reproduced their respective tissue geometries and that exhibited stem cell regionalization and transcriptional resemblance to in vivo epithelia. The models' enhanced observability allowed single-cell tracking and studies of the motility of cells in immersion culture and at the air-liquid interface. Models mimicking infection of the caecal epithelium by the parasite Trichuris muris allowed us to live image syncytial tunnel formation. The enhanced observability of bilaterally accessible organoid-derived gastrointestinal tissue will facilitate the study of the dynamics of epithelial cells and their interactions with pathogens.

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