Journal
BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 218, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2022.114747
Keywords
Thoracic aortic aneurysm; Organ-on-a-chip; High-throughput; Drug screening; HIF-1alpha
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Funding
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [20ZR1411700]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [82070484]
- Shanghai Sailing Program [20YF1406900, 22YF1406600]
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In this study, a new aorta smooth muscle-on-a-chip model was developed for TAA drug screening. Through this chip, researchers were able to rapidly and high-throughput screen multiple drugs simultaneously, and identified two drugs with the best therapeutic effects for TAA.
Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), in which arteries enlarge asymptomatically over time until dissection or rupture occurs, is a serious health risk. The mainstay of TAA treatment remains surgical repair due to the lack of effective drugs. The complex etiology and pathogenesis of TAA, including hemodynamic alterations and genetic factors, lead to inaccuracies in preclinical models for drug screening. Previously, our group designed an aorta smooth muscle-on-a-chip to emulate human aorta physiology and pathophysiology and screened three promising ther-apeutic drugs targeting mitochondrial dynamics in TAA. On this foundation, we updated the one-channel chip to an eighteen-well chip platform with four polydimethylsiloxane layers. Benefiting from this high-throughput chip, we rapidly screened multiple drugs simultaneously using distinct cell lines in vitro. In addition, we observed the abnormal activation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha (HIF-1alpha) in aortas from TAA patients by Western blot and bioinformatics analyses. Intriguingly, this phenomenon was replicated only when smooth muscle cells (SMCs) were strained on the chip. We then screened seven specific HIF-1alpha inhibitors and selected the two most effective drugs (2-methoxyestradiol and digoxin) by quantitative PCR and colorimetric methods. The results demonstrated that these two drugs can improve respiratory chain function and rescue the SMC contractile phenotype, showing applicability for the clinical treatment of TAA. This high-throughput aorta smooth muscle -on-a-chip will become a potential preclinical model for TAA drug screening.
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