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Mouse pancreatic ductal organoid culture as a relevant model to study exocrine pancreatic ion secretion

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LABORATORY INVESTIGATION
Volume 100, Issue 1, Pages 84-97

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41374-019-0300-3

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  1. Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office [PD115974, GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00048, PD116553, K119938]
  2. Ministry of Human Capacities [EFOP 3.6.2-16-2017-00006]
  3. Bolyai Research Fellowship [BO/00440/16/5, BO/00569/17]
  4. Hungarian Academy of Sciences [LP2017-18/2017]
  5. National Excellence Program [20391-3/2018/FEKUSTRAT]
  6. New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities [UNKP-18-4-SZTE-85, UNKP-18-3-I-SZTE-66]
  7. EFOP [3.6.3-VEKOP-16-2017-00009]

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Pancreatic exocrine secretory processes are challenging to investigate on primary epithelial cells. Pancreatic organoid cultures may help to overcome shortcomings of the current models, however the ion secretory processes in pancreatic organoids-and therefore their physiological relevance or their utility in disease modeling-are not known. To answer these questions, we provide side-by-side comparison of gene expression, morphology, and function of epithelial cells in primary isolated pancreatic ducts and organoids. We used mouse pancreatic ductal fragments for experiments or were grown in Matrigel to obtain organoid cultures. Using PCR analysis we showed that gene expression of ion channels and transporters remarkably overlap in primary ductal cells and organoids. Morphological analysis with scanning electron microscopy revealed that pancreatic organoids form polarized monolayers with brush border on the apical membrane. Whereas the expression and localization of key proteins involved in ductal secretion (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, Na+/H+ exchanger 1 and electrogenic Na+/HCO3- cotransporter 1) are equivalent to the primary ductal fragments. Measurements of intracellular pH and Cl- levels revealed no significant difference in the activities of the apical Cl-/HCO3- exchange, or in the basolateral Na+ dependent HCO3- uptake. In summary we found that ion transport activities in the mouse pancreatic organoids are remarkably similar to those observed in freshly isolated primary ductal fragments. These results suggest that organoids can be suitable and robust model to study pancreatic ductal epithelial ion transport in health and diseases and facilitate drug development for secretory pancreatic disorders like cystic fibrosis, or chronic pancreatitis.

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