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Go with the Flow—Trophoblasts in Flow Culture
With establishment of uteroplacental blood flow, the perfused fetal chorionic tissue has to deal with fluid shear stress that is produced by hemodynamic forces across different trophoblast subtypes. Amongst many other cell types, trophoblasts are able to sense fluid shear stress through mechanotrans...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7369846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32630006 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21134666 |
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author | Brugger, Beatrice A. Guettler, Jacqueline Gauster, Martin |
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description | With establishment of uteroplacental blood flow, the perfused fetal chorionic tissue has to deal with fluid shear stress that is produced by hemodynamic forces across different trophoblast subtypes. Amongst many other cell types, trophoblasts are able to sense fluid shear stress through mechanotransduction. Failure in the adaption of trophoblasts to fluid shear stress is suggested to contribute to pregnancy disorders. Thus, in the past twenty years, a significant body of work has been devoted to human- and animal-derived trophoblast culture under microfluidic conditions, using a rather broad range of different fluid shear stress values as well as various different flow systems, ranging from commercially 2D to customized 3D flow culture systems. The great variations in the experimental setup reflect the general heterogeneity in blood flow through different segments of the uteroplacental circulation. While fluid shear stress is moderate in invaded uterine spiral arteries, it drastically declines after entrance of the maternal blood into the wide cavity of the intervillous space. Here, we provide an overview of the increasing body of evidence that substantiates an important influence of maternal blood flow on several aspects of trophoblast physiology, including cellular turnover and differentiation, trophoblast metabolism, as well as endocrine activity, and motility. Future trends in trophoblast flow culture will incorporate the physiological low oxygen conditions in human placental tissue and pulsatile blood flow in the experimental setup. Investigation of trophoblast mechanotransduction and development of mechanosome modulators will be another intriguing future direction. |
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spelling | pubmed-73698462020-07-21 Go with the Flow—Trophoblasts in Flow Culture Brugger, Beatrice A. Guettler, Jacqueline Gauster, Martin Int J Mol Sci Review With establishment of uteroplacental blood flow, the perfused fetal chorionic tissue has to deal with fluid shear stress that is produced by hemodynamic forces across different trophoblast subtypes. Amongst many other cell types, trophoblasts are able to sense fluid shear stress through mechanotransduction. Failure in the adaption of trophoblasts to fluid shear stress is suggested to contribute to pregnancy disorders. Thus, in the past twenty years, a significant body of work has been devoted to human- and animal-derived trophoblast culture under microfluidic conditions, using a rather broad range of different fluid shear stress values as well as various different flow systems, ranging from commercially 2D to customized 3D flow culture systems. The great variations in the experimental setup reflect the general heterogeneity in blood flow through different segments of the uteroplacental circulation. While fluid shear stress is moderate in invaded uterine spiral arteries, it drastically declines after entrance of the maternal blood into the wide cavity of the intervillous space. Here, we provide an overview of the increasing body of evidence that substantiates an important influence of maternal blood flow on several aspects of trophoblast physiology, including cellular turnover and differentiation, trophoblast metabolism, as well as endocrine activity, and motility. Future trends in trophoblast flow culture will incorporate the physiological low oxygen conditions in human placental tissue and pulsatile blood flow in the experimental setup. Investigation of trophoblast mechanotransduction and development of mechanosome modulators will be another intriguing future direction. MDPI 2020-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7369846/ /pubmed/32630006 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21134666 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Brugger, Beatrice A. Guettler, Jacqueline Gauster, Martin Go with the Flow—Trophoblasts in Flow Culture |
title | Go with the Flow—Trophoblasts in Flow Culture |
title_full | Go with the Flow—Trophoblasts in Flow Culture |
title_fullStr | Go with the Flow—Trophoblasts in Flow Culture |
title_full_unstemmed | Go with the Flow—Trophoblasts in Flow Culture |
title_short | Go with the Flow—Trophoblasts in Flow Culture |
title_sort | go with the flow—trophoblasts in flow culture |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7369846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32630006 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21134666 |
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