Zeltner Nadja, Wu Hsueh-Fu, Saito-Diaz Kenyi, Sun Xin, Song Ming, Saini Tripti, Grant Courtney, James Christina, Thomas Kimata, Abate Yohannes, Howerth Elizabeth, Kner Peter, Xu Bingqian
Universtiy of Georgia.
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA.
Res Sq. 2024 Mar 21:rs.3.rs-3894397. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3894397/v1.
The technology of human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-based 3D organoid/assembloid cultures has become a powerful tool for the study of human embryonic development, disease modeling and drug discovery in recent years. The autonomic sympathetic nervous system innervates and regulates almost all organs in the body, including the heart. Yet, most reported organoids to date are not innervated, thus lacking proper neural regulation, and hindering reciprocal tissue maturation. Here, we developed a simple and versatile sympathetic neuron (symN)-innervated cardiac assembloid without the need for bioengineering. Our human sympathetic cardiac assembloids (hSCAs) showed mature muscle structures, atrial to ventricular patterning, and spontaneous beating. hSCA-innervating symNs displayed neurotransmitter synthesis and functional regulation of the cardiac beating rate, which could be manipulated pharmacologically or optogenetically. We modeled symN-mediated cardiac development and myocardial infarction. This hSCAs provides a tool for future neurocardiotoxicity screening approaches and is highly versatile and modular, where the types of neuron (symN or parasympathetic or sensory neuron) and organoid (heart, lung, kidney) to be innervated may be interchanged.
近年来,基于人类多能干细胞(hPSC)的3D类器官/组装体培养技术已成为研究人类胚胎发育、疾病建模和药物发现的有力工具。自主交感神经系统支配并调节身体几乎所有器官,包括心脏。然而,迄今为止报道的大多数类器官都没有神经支配,因此缺乏适当的神经调节,阻碍了相互的组织成熟。在此,我们开发了一种无需生物工程的简单通用的交感神经元(symN)支配的心脏组装体。我们的人类交感心脏组装体(hSCA)显示出成熟的肌肉结构、心房到心室的模式以及自发跳动。支配hSCA的symN表现出神经递质合成以及对心脏跳动速率的功能调节,这可以通过药理学或光遗传学方法进行操控。我们对symN介导的心脏发育和心肌梗死进行了建模。这种hSCA为未来的神经心脏毒性筛查方法提供了一种工具,并且具有高度的通用性和模块化,其中要支配的神经元类型(symN或副交感或感觉神经元)和类器官(心脏、肺、肾脏)可以互换。