Ryan Patrick, Yoon Hyejin, Amin Seema, Chambers James J, Lee Jungwoo
Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, UMass-Amherst, UMass-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Department of Biomedical Engineering, UMass-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
ACS Biomater Sci Eng. 2025 Apr 14;11(4):2096-2105. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.4c02349. Epub 2025 Mar 19.
Effective drug development for bone-related diseases, such as osteoporosis and metastasis, is hindered by the lack of physiologically relevant in vitro models. Traditional platforms, including standard tissue culture plastic, fail to replicate the structural and functional complexity of the natural bone extracellular matrix. Recently, osteoid-mimicking demineralized bone paper (DBP), which preserves the intrinsic collagen structure of mature bone and exhibits semitransparency, has demonstrated the ability to reproduce in-vivo-relevant osteogenic processes and mineral metabolism. Here, we present a label-free, longitudinal, and quantitative monitoring of mineralized collagen formation by osteoblasts and subsequent osteoclast-driven mineral resorption on DBP using brightfield microscopy. A Segment.ai machine learning algorithm is applied for time-lapse bright-field image analysis, enabling identification of osteoclast resorption areas and automated quantification of large image datasets over a three-week culture period. This work highlights the potential of DBP as a transformative platform for bone-targeting drug screening and osteoporosis research.
用于骨质疏松症和骨转移等骨相关疾病的有效药物开发受到缺乏生理相关体外模型的阻碍。包括标准组织培养塑料在内的传统平台无法复制天然骨细胞外基质的结构和功能复杂性。最近,模仿类骨质的脱矿骨纸(DBP)保留了成熟骨的固有胶原结构并呈现半透明性,已证明能够重现与体内相关的成骨过程和矿物质代谢。在此,我们使用明场显微镜对成骨细胞在DBP上形成矿化胶原以及随后破骨细胞驱动的矿物质吸收进行无标记、纵向和定量监测。应用Segment.ai机器学习算法进行延时明场图像分析,能够识别破骨细胞吸收区域并在三周培养期内对大型图像数据集进行自动定量分析。这项工作突出了DBP作为骨靶向药物筛选和骨质疏松症研究变革性平台的潜力。