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Liver slice culture as a model for lipid metabolism in fish

Hepatic lipid metabolism is traditionally investigated in vitro using hepatocyte monocultures lacking the complex three-dimensional structure and interacting cell types essential liver function. Precision cut liver slice (PCLS) culture represents an alternative in vitro system, which benefits from r...

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Autores principales: Harvey, Thomas N., Sandve, Simen R., Jin, Yang, Vik, Jon Olav, Torgersen, Jacob S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6753922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31576253
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7732
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author Harvey, Thomas N.
Sandve, Simen R.
Jin, Yang
Vik, Jon Olav
Torgersen, Jacob S.
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description Hepatic lipid metabolism is traditionally investigated in vitro using hepatocyte monocultures lacking the complex three-dimensional structure and interacting cell types essential liver function. Precision cut liver slice (PCLS) culture represents an alternative in vitro system, which benefits from retention of tissue architecture. Here, we present the first comprehensive evaluation of the PCLS method in fish (Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L.) and validate it in the context of lipid metabolism using feeding trials, extensive transcriptomic data, and fatty acid measurements. We observe an initial period of post-slicing global transcriptome adjustment, which plateaued after 3 days in major metabolic pathways and stabilized through 9 days. PCLS fed alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and insulin responded in a liver-like manner, increasing lipid biosynthesis gene expression. We identify interactions between insulin and ALA, where two PUFA biosynthesis genes that were induced by insulin or ALA alone, were highly down-regulated when insulin and ALA were combined. We also find that transcriptomic profiles of liver slices are exceedingly more similar to whole liver than hepatocyte monocultures, both for lipid metabolism and liver marker genes. PCLS culture opens new avenues for high throughput experimentation on the effect of “novel feed composition” and represent a promising new strategy for studying genotype-specific molecular features of metabolism.
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spelling pubmed-67539222019-10-01 Liver slice culture as a model for lipid metabolism in fish Harvey, Thomas N. Sandve, Simen R. Jin, Yang Vik, Jon Olav Torgersen, Jacob S. PeerJ Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science Hepatic lipid metabolism is traditionally investigated in vitro using hepatocyte monocultures lacking the complex three-dimensional structure and interacting cell types essential liver function. Precision cut liver slice (PCLS) culture represents an alternative in vitro system, which benefits from retention of tissue architecture. Here, we present the first comprehensive evaluation of the PCLS method in fish (Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L.) and validate it in the context of lipid metabolism using feeding trials, extensive transcriptomic data, and fatty acid measurements. We observe an initial period of post-slicing global transcriptome adjustment, which plateaued after 3 days in major metabolic pathways and stabilized through 9 days. PCLS fed alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and insulin responded in a liver-like manner, increasing lipid biosynthesis gene expression. We identify interactions between insulin and ALA, where two PUFA biosynthesis genes that were induced by insulin or ALA alone, were highly down-regulated when insulin and ALA were combined. We also find that transcriptomic profiles of liver slices are exceedingly more similar to whole liver than hepatocyte monocultures, both for lipid metabolism and liver marker genes. PCLS culture opens new avenues for high throughput experimentation on the effect of “novel feed composition” and represent a promising new strategy for studying genotype-specific molecular features of metabolism. PeerJ Inc. 2019-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6753922/ /pubmed/31576253 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7732 Text en © 2019 Harvey et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Harvey, Thomas N.
Sandve, Simen R.
Jin, Yang
Vik, Jon Olav
Torgersen, Jacob S.
Liver slice culture as a model for lipid metabolism in fish
title Liver slice culture as a model for lipid metabolism in fish
title_full Liver slice culture as a model for lipid metabolism in fish
title_fullStr Liver slice culture as a model for lipid metabolism in fish
title_full_unstemmed Liver slice culture as a model for lipid metabolism in fish
title_short Liver slice culture as a model for lipid metabolism in fish
title_sort liver slice culture as a model for lipid metabolism in fish
topic Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6753922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31576253
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7732
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