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ArticleLab on a chip2019

Organ-on-chips made of blood: endothelial progenitor cells from blood reconstitute vascular thromboinflammation in vessel-chips.

Tanmay Mathur, Kanwar Abhay Singh, Navaneeth K R Pandian, Shu-Huai Tsai, Travis W Hein, Akhilesh K Gaharwar, Jonathan M Flanagan, Abhishek Jain

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Article in Lab on a chip, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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55citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Tanmay MathurDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 101 Bizzell St, College Station, TX 77843, USA. a.jain@tamu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2123-9857
Kanwar Abhay SinghDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 101 Bizzell St, College Station, TX 77843, USA. a.jain@tamu.edu.
Navaneeth K R PandianDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 101 Bizzell St, College Station, TX 77843, USA. a.jain@tamu.edu.
Shu-Huai TsaiDepartment of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Temple, USA.
Travis W HeinDepartment of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Temple, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7043-4785
Akhilesh K GaharwarDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 101 Bizzell St, College Station, TX 77843, USA. a.jain@tamu.edu and Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0284-0201
Jonathan M FlanaganDepartment of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.
Abhishek JainDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 101 Bizzell St, College Station, TX 77843, USA. a.jain@tamu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2235-5139
Mitchell Institute · USTexas A&M University System · USBaylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

Mineralomics: Designing mineral based therapeutics to control and direct cell functionDP2EB026265 · NIBIB · TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION · PI GAHARWAR, AKHILESH K. · 2017 to 2021
$2.4M
Novel Pathways in Ischemic Stroke in Sickle Cell AnemiaR01HL136415 · NHLBI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI FLANAGAN, JONATHAN MICHAEL · 2019 to 2021
$1.6M
Roles of LOX-1 and Stress-Activated Kinases in Retinal Dysfunction during Early DiabetesR01EY024624 · NEI · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CTR · PI HEIN, TRAVIS W · 2015 to 2017
$1.4M
An artery-on-a-chip system containing blood outgrowth endothelium as a model of vaso-occlusion and drug testing in sickle cell diseaseR21EB025945 · NIBIB · TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION · PI JAIN, ABHISHEK · 2018 to 2020
$581k
NOVEL PATHWAYS IN ISCHEMIC STROKE IN SICKLE CELL ANEMIAR56HL136415 · NHLBI · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI FLANAGAN, JONATHAN MICHAEL · 2017 to 2017
$416k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024624NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL136415NHLBI NIH HHS R56 HL136415NIBIB NIH HHS DP2 EB026265NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB025945
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Development of therapeutic approaches to treat vascular dysfunction and thrombosis at disease- and patient-specific levels is an exciting proposed direction in biomedical research. However, this cannot be achieved with animal preclinical models alone, and new in vitro techniques, like human organ-on-chips, currently lack inclusion of easily obtainable and phenotypically-similar human cell sources. Therefore, there is an unmet need to identify sources of patient primary cells and apply them in organ-on-chips to increase personalized mechanistic understanding of diseases and to assess drugs. In this study, we provide a proof-of-feasibility of utilizing blood outgrowth endothelial cells (BOECs) as a disease-specific primary cell source to analyze vascular inflammation and thrombosis in vascular organ-chips or "vessel-chips". These blood-derived BOECs express several factors that confirm their endothelial identity. The vessel-chips are cultured with BOECs from healthy or diabetic patients and form an intact 3D endothelial lumen. Inflammation of the BOEC endothelium with exogenous cytokines reveals vascular dysfunction and thrombosis in vitro similar to in vivo observations. Interestingly, our study with vessel-chips also reveals that unstimulated BOECs of type 1 diabetic pigs show phenotypic behavior of the disease - high vascular dysfunction and thrombogenicity - when compared to control BOECs or normal primary endothelial cells. These results demonstrate the potential of organ-on-chips made from autologous endothelial cells obtained from blood in modeling vascular pathologies and therapeutic outcomes at a disease and patient-specific level.

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Lab-On-A-Chip DevicesAdultBlood CellsCell ProliferationEndothelial Progenitor CellsFeasibility StudiesHumansOxidative StressThrombosis

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PMCPMC6650325
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