Effects of Adult Müller Cells and Their Conditioned Media on the Survival of Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Ganglion Cells
dc.contributor.author | Pereiro Díez, Xandra | |
dc.contributor.author | Miltner, Adam M. | |
dc.contributor.author | La Torre, Anna | |
dc.contributor.author | Vecino Cordero, Elena | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-09T11:26:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-09T11:26:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-07-22 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Cells 9(8) : (2020) // Article ID 1759 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2073-4409 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/46043 | |
dc.description.abstract | Retinal neurons, particularly retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), are susceptible to the degenerative damage caused by different inherited conditions and environmental insults, leading to irreversible vision loss and, ultimately, blindness. Numerous strategies are being tested in different models of degeneration to restore vision and, in recent years, stem cell technologies have offered novel avenues to obtain donor cells for replacement therapies. To date, stem cell–based transplantation in the retina has been attempted as treatment for photoreceptor degeneration, but the same tools could potentially be applied to other retinal cell types, including RGCs. However, RGC-like cells are not an abundant cell type in stem cell–derived cultures and, often, these cells degenerate over time in vitro. To overcome this limitation, we have taken advantage of the neuroprotective properties of Müller glia (one of the main glial cell types in the retina) and we have examined whether Müller glia and the factors they secrete could promote RGC-like cell survival in organoid cultures. Accordingly, stem cell-derived RGC-like cells were co-cultured with adult Müller cells or Müller cell-conditioned media was added to the cultures. Remarkably, RGC-like cell survival was substantially enhanced in both culture conditions, and we also observed a significant increase in their neurite length. Interestingly, Atoh7, a transcription factor required for RGC development, was up-regulated in stem cell-derived organoids exposed to conditioned media, suggesting that Müller cells may also enhance the survival of retinal progenitors and/or postmitotic precursor cells. In conclusion, Müller cells and the factors they release promote organoid-derived RGC-like cell survival, neuritogenesis, and possibly neuronal maturation. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant R01EY026942 to A.L.T., and by the National Institutes of Health T32 Vision Science Training grant 4T32EY015387 to A.M.M. We also benefit from the National Eye Institute Core Facilities grant P30 EY012576. ELKARTEK KK-2019/00086 to E.V., Research groups of the UPV/EHU (GIU 2018/50) to E.V., Movilidad de personal de investigación UPV/EHU to X.P. and Programa de perfeccionamiento de personal Investigador Doctor, Gobierno Vasco (POS_2019_1_0027) to X.P. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | MDPI | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | |
dc.subject | retinal ganglion cells | es_ES |
dc.subject | Müller glia | es_ES |
dc.subject | Stem cells | es_ES |
dc.subject | retinal organoids | es_ES |
dc.subject | neuroprotection | es_ES |
dc.subject | neuritogenesis | es_ES |
dc.title | Effects of Adult Müller Cells and Their Conditioned Media on the Survival of Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Ganglion Cells | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.date.updated | 2020-08-21T13:49:04Z | |
dc.rights.holder | 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/). | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/9/8/1759 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/cells9081759 | |
dc.departamentoes | Biología celular e histología | |
dc.departamentoeu | Zelulen biologia eta histologia |
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