Lee Serene M L, Schelcher Celine, Demmel Maresa, Hauner Maria, Thasler Wolfgang E
Experimental Surgical Research, Grosshadern Hospital, Munich.
J Vis Exp. 2013 Sep 3(79):50615. doi: 10.3791/50615.
The liver, an organ with an exceptional regeneration capacity, carries out a wide range of functions, such as detoxification, metabolism and homeostasis. As such, hepatocytes are an important model for a large variety of research questions. In particular, the use of human hepatocytes is especially important in the fields of pharmacokinetics, toxicology, liver regeneration and translational research. Thus, this method presents a modified version of a two-step collagenase perfusion procedure to isolate hepatocytes as described by Seglen (1). Previously, hepatocytes have been isolated by mechanical methods. However, enzymatic methods have been shown to be superior as hepatocytes retain their structural integrity and function after isolation. This method presented here adapts the method designed previously for rat livers to human liver pieces and results in a large yield of hepatocytes with a viability of 77±10%. The main difference in this procedure is the process of cannulization of the blood vessels. Further, the method described here can also be applied to livers from other species with comparable liver or blood vessel sizes.
肝脏是一种具有非凡再生能力的器官,执行着广泛的功能,如解毒、代谢和内环境稳定。因此,肝细胞是众多研究问题的重要模型。特别是,人肝细胞的使用在药代动力学、毒理学、肝脏再生和转化研究领域尤为重要。因此,本方法提出了一种改良版的两步胶原酶灌注程序,用于分离肝细胞,如Seglen(1)所述。以前,肝细胞是通过机械方法分离的。然而,酶法已被证明更具优势,因为肝细胞在分离后仍保持其结构完整性和功能。这里介绍的方法将先前为大鼠肝脏设计的方法应用于人肝组织,可大量收获肝细胞,存活率为77±10%。该程序的主要区别在于血管插管过程。此外,这里描述的方法也可应用于肝脏或血管大小相当的其他物种的肝脏。