ArticleThe American journal of pathology2022
The Challenge of Long-Term Cultivation of Human Precision-Cut Lung Slices.
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- Altered Metabolism in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.Journal of cellular physiology · 2025Review
- Local photocrosslinking of native tissue matrix regulates lung epithelial cell mechanosensing and function.Nature materials · 2025Article
- Living human lung slices for ex vivo modelling of lung cancer.JCI insight · 2025Article
- Activation of CD8⁺ T Cells in the Human Ex Vivo Lung Tumor Microenvironment Using Anti-CD3/CD28 and Nivolumab.European journal of immunology · 2025Article
- Insights from precision-cut lung slices-investigating mechanisms and therapeutics for pulmonary hypertension.Respiratory research · 2025Review
- Aging shapes infection profiles of influenza A virus and SARS-CoV-2 in human precision-cut lung slices.Respiratory research · 2025Article
- Cold storage of human precision-cut lung slices in TiProtec preserves cellular composition and transcriptional responses and enables on-demand mechanistic studies.Respiratory research · 2025Article
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- Precision-Cut Lung Slices: Emerging Tools for Preclinical and Translational Lung Research: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2025Article
- In Vitro Modeling of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Lung-on-a-Chip Systems and Other 3D Cultures.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
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Abstract
Human precision-cut lung slices (PCLS) have proven to be an invaluable tool for numerous toxicologic, pharmacologic, and immunologic studies. Although a cultivation period of <1 week is sufficient for most studies, modeling of complex disease mechanisms and investigating effects of long-term exposure to certain substances require cultivation periods that are much longer. So far, data regarding tissue integrity of long-term cultivated PCLS are incomplete. More than 1500 human PCLS from 16 different donors were cultivated under standardized, serum-free conditions for up to 28 days and the viability, tissue integrity, and the transcriptome was assessed in great detail. Even though viability of PCLS was well preserved during long-term cultivation, a continuous loss of cells was observed. Although the bronchial epithelium was well preserved throughout cultivation, the alveolar integrity was preserved for about 2 weeks, and the vasculatory system experienced significant loss of integrity within the first week. Furthermore, ciliary beat in the small airways gradually decreased after 1 week. Interestingly, keratinizing squamous metaplasia of the alveolar epithelium with significantly increasing manifestation were found over time. Transcriptome analysis revealed a significantly increased immune response and significantly decreased metabolic activity within the first 24 hours after PCLS generation. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive overview of histomorphologic and pathologic changes during long-term cultivation of PCLS.
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