ArticleCell and tissue research2024
Spatiotemporal analysis of multi-scale cell structure in spheroid culture reveals hypertrophic chondrocyte differentiation.
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3D cell culture has emerged as a promising approach to replicate the complex behaviors of cells within living organisms. This study aims to analyze spatiotemporal behavior of the morphological characteristics of cell structure at multiscale in 3D scaffold-free spheroids using chondrogenic progenitor ATDC5 cells. Over a 14-day culture period, it exhibited cell hypertrophy in the spheroids regarding cellular and nuclear size as well as changes in morphology. Moreover, biological analysis indicated a signification up-regulation of normal chondrocyte as well as hypertrophic chondrocyte markers, suggesting early hypertrophic chondrocyte differentiation. Cell nuclei underwent changes in volume, sphericity, and distribution in spheroid over time, indicating alterations in chromatin organization. The ratio of chromatin condensation volume to cell nuclear volume decreased as the cell nuclei enlarged, potentially signifying changes in chromatin state during hypertrophic chondrocyte differentiation. Our image analysis techniques in this present study enabled detailed morphological measurement of cell structure at multi-scale, which can be applied to various 3D culture models for in-depth investigation.
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