以胶原膜为支架的心肌细胞体外三维培养

将从新生乳鼠心室肌组织获取的心肌细胞接种于鼠尾胶原膜三维支架和组织培养板，以细胞形态、细胞搏动、葡萄糖比消耗率(q_glu)、乳酸比产率(q_lac)、乳酸转化率(Y_lac/glu)、肌酸激酶及乳酸脱氢酶的活力为观察指标，比较心肌细胞在鼠尾胶原膜中三维(3D)培养和组织培养板中二维(2D)培养的差异。培养于鼠尾胶原膜的乳鼠心肌细胞在第5天形成闰盘连接，形成面积约为80mm³、肉眼可见自律性同步收缩的心肌细胞3D培养物。3D培养体系中乳鼠心肌细胞的q_glu、q_lac和Y_lac/glu的均值分别为7.37 μmol/10.6cells/d、2.92 μmol/106cells/d和0.38 μmol/μmol；2D培养体系中乳鼠心肌细胞的q_glu、q_lac和Y_lac/glu的均值分别为7.59 μmol/10.6cells/d、3.83 μmol/10.6cells/d和 0.51 μmol/μmol。两种培养体系中乳鼠心肌细胞的肌酸激酶及乳酸脱氢酶的活力无明显差别。实验结果表明：培养于鼠尾胶原膜的心肌细胞保持正常心肌细胞的代谢活力和收缩功能。

Collagen Membrane as Scaffold for the Three-dimensional Cultivation of Cardiac Cells in vitro

The objective of this study was to develop research of cardiac cells to reestablish 3D tissue architecture in vitro, we performed studies using collagen membrane as three-dimensional scaffold for cardiac cells culture with the principles and methods of tissue engineering. The polymer scaffold provides a 3-D substrate for cell attachment and tissue formation. Cardiac cells isolated by enzymatic digestion from 1d old neonatal rats were seeded to three-dimensional collagen scaffolds and tissue culture plates. The morphology, beating rate and the metabolic indexes, including specific consumption rate of glucose (q(glu)) , specific production rate of lactate (q(lac)), lactate transform rate ( Y(lac/glu)), specific creatine kinase (CK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activities of cardiac cells cultured on three-dimensional collagen membrane and tissue culture plates were compared. It was found that cells shape and cells' CK and LDH activity was no differences between 3D and 2D cultures and cell beat rate on cell culture cluster was slower than those cells cultured on collagen membrane, However the cell glucose consumption and lactate yield rate of cells cultured on cluster was higher than those cells cultured on collagen membrane. After 5 days of cultivation, cardiac cells cultured on collagen membrane scaffolds organized into three-dimensional (3D) aggregates as opposed to the two-dimensional (2D) aggregates mosaic pattern seen in tissue culture plates, and spontaneous and rhythmical contractile 3D cultures in unison were visible to the naked eye and the area of synchronous contract three-dimensional (3D) aggregates reaches 80cm2. The mean value of q(glu), q(lac) and Y(lac/glu) of cultured on three-dimensional collagen scaffold was 7.37 micromol/10(6) cells/d, 2.92 micromol/10(6) cells/ d and 0.38 micromol/micromol, versus 7.59 micromol/10(6)cells/d, 3.83 micromol/10(6) cells/d and 0.51 micromol/micromol in tissue culture plates. These results demonstrate that cardiac cells immobilized on collagen membrane in 3D cultures maintain similar metabolic activity and contractile function when compared with native cardiac cells. The above results support the idea that engineered cardiac tissue can be used as a model of native tissue for studies of tissue development and function in vitro and eventually for tissue repair in vivo.