An Innovative Assay for the Analysis of In Vitro Endothelial Remodeling: Experimental and Computational Evidence
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- 作者：Marco Scianna ; Eleonora Bassino and Luca Munaron
- 刊名：Journal of Cellular Physiology
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：232
- 期：2
- 页码：243-248
- 全文大小：1524K
- ISSN：1097-4652
文摘
The molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying vascular remodeling are currently investigated by experimental strategies which aim to mimic the complex environmental conditions found in vivo. Some of them focus on the tubulogenic activity of dispersed endothelial cell populations, while others evaluate vascular sprouting. Here we propose a new method to assess matrigel invasion starting from confluent or subconfluent monolayers of human microvascular ECs (HMVEC) seeded on different substrates. The experimental setting is also validated by an improved hybrid multiscale mathematical approach, which integrates a mesoscopic grid-based cellular Potts model, that describes HMVEC phenomenology, with a continuous one, accounting for the kinetics of diffusing growth factors. Both experimental and theoretical approaches show that the endothelial potential to invade, migrate, and organize in tubule structures is a function of selected environmental parameters. The present methodology is intended to be simple to use, standardized for rapid screening and suitable for mechanistic studies. J. Cell. Physiol. 232: 243–248, 2017.