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Modelling Functional Thyroid Follicular Structures Using P19 Embryonal Carcinoma Cells.

Fatimah Najjar, Liming Milbauer, Chin-Wen Wei, Thomas Lerdall, Li-Na Wei

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Article in Cells, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors.

Fatimah NajjarDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-0858-9037
Liming MilbauerDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Chin-Wen WeiDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6795-2757
Thomas LerdallDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Li-Na WeiDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6376-8506

Funding

TR2 nuclear receptor in vitamin A signalingR01NS132277 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Li-Na Wei · 2023 to 2026
$1.9M
National Institute of Health R01NS132277NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS132277
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thyroid gland diseases remain clinical challenges due to the lack of reliable in vitro models to examine molecular pathways of thyrocytes development, maturation, and functional maintenance. This study aimed to develop in vitro thyrocytes model using a stem cell culture, P19 embryonal carcinoma which requires no feeder layer, differentiation into mature and functional thyrocytes that allow molecular and genetic manipulation for studying thyroid diseases. The procedure utilizes Activin A and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) to first induce embryoid body endoderm formation enriched in thyrocyte progenitors. Following dissociating embryoid bodies, thyrocyte progenitors are plated in Matrigel as monolayer cultures that allows thyrocyte progenitors mature to functional thyrocytes. These thyrocytes further maturate to form follicle-like structures expressing and accumulating thyroglobulin that can be secreted into the medium upon TSH stimulation. Thyrocyte differentiation-maturation process is monitored by the expression of essential transcriptional factors and thyrocyte-specific functional genes. Further, the applicability of this system is validated by introducing a siRNA control. Following molecular manipulation, the system can still be guided to differentiate into mature and functional thyrocytes. This system spans a time frame of 14 days, suitable for detailed molecular studies to dissect pathways and molecular players in thyrocytes development and functional maintenance.

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Cell DifferentiationActivinsAnimalsCell Line, TumorEmbryoid BodiesEmbryonal Carcinoma Stem CellsMiceModels, BiologicalThyroglobulinThyroid Epithelial CellsThyroid GlandThyrotropinactivin AActivinsThyroglobulinThyrotropincell differentiationembryonal carcinoma stem cellsin vitro modelsthyrocytesthyroid diseases

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PMID39594593
PMCPMC11593046

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