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Wimmer, Reiner A; Leopoldi, Alexandra; Aichinger, Martin; Wick, Nikolaus; Hantusch, Brigitte; Novatchkova, Maria; Taubenschmid, Jasmin; Hämmerle, Monika; Esk, Christopher; Bagley, Joshua A; Lindenhofer, Dominik; Chen, Guibin; Boehm, Manfred; Agu, Chukwuma A; Yang, Fengtang; Fu, Beiyuan; Zuber, Johannes; Knoblich, Juergen A; Kerjaschki, Dontscho; Penninger, Josef M
Nature, 01/2019, Volume: 565, Issue: 7740Journal Article
The increasing prevalence of diabetes has resulted in a global epidemic . Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke and amputation of lower limbs. These are often caused by changes in blood vessels, such as the expansion of the basement membrane and a loss of vascular cells . Diabetes also impairs the functions of endothelial cells and disturbs the communication between endothelial cells and pericytes . How dysfunction of endothelial cells and/or pericytes leads to diabetic vasculopathy remains largely unknown. Here we report the development of self-organizing three-dimensional human blood vessel organoids from pluripotent stem cells. These human blood vessel organoids contain endothelial cells and pericytes that self-assemble into capillary networks that are enveloped by a basement membrane. Human blood vessel organoids transplanted into mice form a stable, perfused vascular tree, including arteries, arterioles and venules. Exposure of blood vessel organoids to hyperglycaemia and inflammatory cytokines in vitro induces thickening of the vascular basement membrane. Human blood vessels, exposed in vivo to a diabetic milieu in mice, also mimic the microvascular changes found in patients with diabetes. DLL4 and NOTCH3 were identified as key drivers of diabetic vasculopathy in human blood vessels. Therefore, organoids derived from human stem cells faithfully recapitulate the structure and function of human blood vessels and are amenable systems for modelling and identifying the regulators of diabetic vasculopathy, a disease that affects hundreds of millions of patients worldwide.
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