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Pendekatan akses membuat otak-mini
Date:
October 1, 2015
Source:
Brown University
Summary:
Dalam sebuah makalah yang baru , para peneliti menggambarkan metode yang relatif mudah untuk membuat kerja - meskipun tidak berpikir - lingkup jaringan sistem saraf pusat . pengembangan bisa memberikan 3 - D testbed murah dan mudah - untuk penelitian biomedis .
................ Hanya contoh kecil dari jaringan hidup dari hewan pengerat tunggal dapat membuat ribuan otak-mini , kata para peneliti . Resep melibatkan isolasi dan konsentrasi sel yang diinginkan dengan beberapa langkah centrifuge dan menggunakan sampel yang halus untuk benih kultur sel dalam medium dalam cetakan bulat agarosa ......more
An accessible
approach to making a mini-brain
Date:
October 1, 2015
Source:
Brown University
Summary:
In a new paper, researchers describe a relatively accessible method for
making a working -- though not thinking -- sphere of central nervous system tissue.
The advance could provide an inexpensive and easy-to-make 3-D testbed for
biomedical research.
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If you need a working miniature brain -- say for drug testing, to test
neural tissue transplants, or to experiment with how stem cells work -- a new
paper describes how to build one with what the Brown University authors say is
relative ease and low expense. The little balls of brain aren't performing any
cogitation, but they produce electrical signals and form their own neural connections
-- synapses -- making them readily producible testbeds for neuroscience
research, the authors said.
"We think of this as a way to have a better in vitro [lab] model that
can maybe reduce animal use," said graduate student Molly Boutin, co-lead
author of the new paper in the journal Tissue Engineering: Part C.
"A lot of the work that's done right now is in two-dimensional culture,
but this is an alternative that is much more relevant to the in vivo [living]
scenario."
Just a small sample of living tissue from a single rodent can make
thousands of mini-brains, the researchers said. The recipe involves isolating
and concentrating the desired cells with some centrifuge steps and using that
refined sample to seed the cell culture in medium in an agarose spherical mold.
The mini-brains, about a third of a millimeter in diameter, are not the
first or the most sophisticated working cell cultures of a central nervous
system, the researchers acknowledged, but they require fewer steps to make and
they use more readily available materials.
"The materials are easy to get and the mini-brains are simple to
make," said co-lead author Yu-Ting Dingle, who earned her Ph.D. at Brown
in May 2015. She compared them to retail 3-D printers which have proliferated
in recent years, bringing that once-rare technology to more of a mass market.
"We could allow all kinds of labs to do this research."
The spheres of brain tissue begin to form within a day after the cultures
are seeded and have formed complex 3-D neural networks within two to three
weeks, the paper shows.
25-cent mini-brains
There are fixed costs, of course, but an approximate cost for each new
mini-brain is on the order of $0.25, said study senior author Diane
Hoffman-Kim, associate professor of molecular pharmacology, physiology and
biotechnology and associate professor of engineering at Brown.
"We knew it was a relatively high-throughput system, but even we were
surprised at the low cost per mini-brain when we computed it," Hoffman-Kim
said.
Hoffman-Kim's lab collaborated with fellow biologists and bioengineers at
Brown -- faculty colleagues Julie Kauer, Jeffrey Morgan, and Eric Darling are
all co-authors -- to build the mini-brains. She wanted to develop a testbed for
her lab's basic biomedical research. She was interested, for example, in
developing a model to test aspects of neural cell transplantation, as has been
proposed to treat Parkinson's disease. Boutin was interested in building
working 3-D cell cultures to study how adult neural stem cells develop.
Morgan's Providence startup company, MicroTissues Inc., makes the 3-D
tissue engineering molds used in the study.
The method they developed yields mini-brains with several important
properties:
- Diverse
cell types: The cultures contain both inhibitory and excitatory neurons
and several varieties of essential neural support cells called glia.
- Electrically
active: the neurons fire and spike and form synaptic connections,
producing complex networks.
- 3-D:
Cells connect and communicate within a realistic geometry, rather than
merely across a flat plane as in a 2-D culture.
- Natural
density: Experiments showed that the mini-brains have a density of a few
hundred thousand cells per cubic millimeter, which is similar to a natural
rodent brain.
- Physical
structure: Cells in the mini-brain produce their own extracellular matrix,
producing a tissue with the same mechanical properties (squishiness) as
natural tissue. The cultures also don't rely on foreign materials such as
scaffolds of collagen.
- Longevity:
In testing, cultured tissues live for at least a month.
Hoffman-Kim, who is affiliated with the Brown Institute for Brain Science
and the Center for Biomedical Engineering, said she hopes the mini-brains might
proliferate to many different labs, including those of researchers who have
questions about neural tissue but not necessarily the degree of neuroscience
and cell culture equipment required of other methods.
"If you are that person in that lab, we think you shouldn't have to
equip yourself with a microelectronics facility, and you shouldn't have to do
embryonic dissections in order to generate an in vitro model of the
brain," Hoffman-Kim said.
The paper's other authors are Anda Chirila, Liane Livi, Nicholas Labriola,
and Lorin Jakubek.
The National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the
Brown Institute for Brain Science, and the U.S. Department of Education funded
the research.
Story Source:
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University. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Journal Reference:
1.
Yu-Ting L. Dingle, Molly Elizabeth Boutin, Anda M. Chirila, Liane L. Livi,
Nicholas R. Labriola, Lorin M. Jakubek, Jeffrey R. Morgan, Eric M. Darling,
Julie A. Kauer, Diane Hoffman-Kim. 3D Neural Spheroid Culture: An In
Vitro Model for Cortical Studies. Tissue Engineering Part C:
Methods, 2015; DOI: 10.1089/ten.TEC.2015.0135