Lipid-Bilayer-Supported 3D Printing of Human Cerebral Cortex Cells Reveals Developmental Interactions

© 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim..

Current understanding of human brain development is rudimentary due to suboptimal in vitro and animal models. In particular, how initial cell positions impact subsequent human cortical development is unclear because experimental spatial control of cortical cell arrangement is technically challenging. 3D cell printing provides a rapid customized approach for patterning. However, it has relied on materials that do not represent the extracellular matrix (ECM) of brain tissue. Therefore, in the present work, a lipid-bilayer-supported printing technique is developed to 3D print human cortical cells in the soft, biocompatible ECM, Matrigel. Printed human neural stem cells (hNSCs) show high viability, neural differentiation, and the formation of functional, stimulus-responsive neural networks. By using prepatterned arrangements of neurons and astrocytes, it is found that hNSC process outgrowth and migration into cell-free matrix and into astrocyte-containing matrix are similar in extent. However, astrocytes enhance the later developmental event of axon bundling. Both young and mature neurons migrate into compartments containing astrocytes; in contrast, astrocytes do not migrate into neuronal domains signifying nonreciprocal chemorepulsion. Therefore, precise prepatterning by 3D printing allows the construction of natural and unnatural patterns that yield important insights into human cerebral cortex development.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) - 32(2020), 31 vom: 14. Aug., Seite e2002183

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhou, Linna [VerfasserIn]
Wolfes, Anne C [VerfasserIn]
Li, Yichen [VerfasserIn]
Chan, Danny C W [VerfasserIn]
Ko, Ho [VerfasserIn]
Szele, Francis G [VerfasserIn]
Bayley, Hagan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

119978-18-6
3D bioprinting
9007-34-5
Collagen
Droplets
Drug Combinations
Journal Article
Laminin
Lipid Bilayers
Lipid bilayers
Matrigel
Neural differentiation
Neural tissue
Proteoglycans

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Date Completed 01.06.2021

Date Revised 01.06.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/adma.202002183

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311169244