Wolfe Russell P, Guidry Julia B, Messina Stephanie L, Ahsan Tabassum
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, 500 Lindy Boggs Center, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA.
Methods Mol Biol. 2016;1341:377-89. doi: 10.1007/7651_2015_210.
Thorough understanding of the effects of shear stress on stem cells is critical for the rationale design of large-scale production of cell-based therapies. This is of growing importance as emerging tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications drive the need for clinically relevant numbers of both pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) and cells derived from PSCs. Here, we describe the use of a custom parallel plate bioreactor system to impose fluid shear stress on a layer of PSCs adhered to protein-coated glass slides. This system can be useful both for basic science studies in mechanotransduction and as a surrogate model for bioreactors used in large-scale production.
深入了解剪切应力对干细胞的影响对于合理设计基于细胞的疗法的大规模生产至关重要。随着新兴的组织工程和再生医学应用推动对临床相关数量的多能干细胞(PSC)以及源自PSC的细胞的需求,这一点变得越来越重要。在这里,我们描述了使用定制的平行板生物反应器系统对粘附在蛋白包被的载玻片上的一层PSC施加流体剪切应力。该系统对于机械转导的基础科学研究以及作为大规模生产中使用的生物反应器的替代模型都可能有用。