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The Effect of Thiol Structure on Allyl Sulfide Photodegradable Hydrogels and their Application as a Degradable Scaffold for Organoid Passaging

Intestinal organoids are useful in vitro models for basic and translational studies aimed at understanding and treating disease. However, their routine culture relies on animal-derived matrices that limit translation to clinical applications. In fact, ther ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2020

Homeostatic mini-intestines through scaffold-guided organoid morphogenesis

Matthias Lütolf, Yoji Tabata, Nathalie Brandenberg, Nikolche Gjorevski, Mikhail Nikolaev, Olga Mitrofanova, Nicolas Antoine Vincent Broguiere, Bilge Sen Elçi, Devanjali Dutta

Epithelial organoids, such as those derived from stem cells of the intestine, have great potential for modelling tissue and disease biology(1-4). However, the approaches that are used at present to derive these organoids in three-dimensional matrices(5,6)r ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

High-throughput automated organoid culture via stem-cell aggregation in microcavity arrays

Gerardo Turcatti, Matthias Lütolf, Nathalie Brandenberg, Fabien Kuttler, Krisztian Homicsko, Nikolche Gjorevski, George Coukos, Camilla Carla Alma Ceroni

Stem-cell-derived epithelial organoids are routinely used for the biological and biomedical modelling of tissues. However, the complexity, lack of standardization and quality control of stem cell culture in solid extracellular matrices hampers the routine ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Mechano-modulatory synthetic niches for liver organoid derivation

Matthias Lütolf, Kristina Schoonjans, Saba Rezakhani, Ece Yildiz, Giovanni Sorrentino

The recent demonstration that primary cells from the liver can be expanded in vitro as organoids holds enormous promise for regenerative medicine and disease modelling. The use of three-dimensional (3D) cultures based on ill-defined and potentially immunog ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Mammary epithelial morphogenesis in 3D combinatorial microenvironments

Matthias Lütolf, Mehmet Ugur Girgin

Human mammary epithelial cells can proliferate and reorganize into polarized multi-cellular constructs in-vitro, thereby functioning as an important model system in recapitulating key steps of in-vivo morphogenesis. Current approaches to constructing such ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Low-Defect Thiol-Michael Addition Hydrogels as Matrigel Substitutes for Epithelial Organoid Derivation

Matthias Lütolf, Saba Rezakhani, Nikolche Gjorevski

Due to their selective crosslinking chemistry and well-defined mechano-biochemical characteristics, hydrogels crosslinked by thiol-Michael addition reactions have garnered immense interest for 3D cell culture applications. These hydrogels are typically for ...

2020

Three dimensional models of tissue fibrosis

Matthias Lütolf, Kristina Schoonjans, Saba Rezakhani, Ece Yildiz, Giovanni Sorrentino

The invention provides a method for obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) cellular model of tissue fibrosis, such as liver fibrosis, comprising culturing epithelial cells in a 3D hydrogel in conditions suitable for a three-dimensional cellular cluster formati ...

2020

Engineering Stem Cell Self-organization to Build Better Organoids

Matthias Lütolf, Jonathan Brassard

Organoids form through self-organization processes in which initially homogeneous populations of stem cells spontaneously break symmetry and undergo in-vivo-like pattern formation and morphogenesis, though the processes controlling this are poorly characte ...

CELL PRESS2019

Engineered signaling centers for the spatially controlled patterning of human pluripotent stem cells

Matthias Lütolf, Felix Naef, Eric Paquet, Yoji Tabata, Ambroise Roger Vuaridel, François Réal Rivest, Andrea Manfrin

Signaling centers, localized groups of cells that secrete morphogens, play a key role in early development and organogenesis by orchestrating spatial cell fate patterning. Here we present a microfluidic approach that exposes human pluripotent stem cell (hP ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Bioinspired Hydrogels for 3D Organoid Culture

Matthias Lütolf, Delphine Lorraine Perle Blondel

Organoids have stepped into the limelight as unique in vitro systems for modeling organ development, function and disease. This review provides a perspective on how chemically defined, bio-inspired hydrogels could be used for replacing ill-defined matrices ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2019

A bioactive injectable bulking material; a potential therapeutic approach for stress urinary incontinence

Matthias Lütolf, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Peter Frey, Hans Mattias Larsson, Elif Vardar, Kalitha Pinnagoda, Ganesh Vythilingam

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a life changing condition, affecting 20 million women worldwide. In this study, we developed a bioactive, injectable bulking agent that consists of Permacol (TM) (Medtronic, Switzerland) and recombinant insulin like gro ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Understanding the Mechanobiology of Early Mammalian Development through Bioengineered Models

Matthias Lütolf, Stefano Davide Vianello

Research in developmental biology has been recently enriched by a multitude of in vitro models recapitulating key milestones of mammalian embryogenesis. These models obviate the challenge posed by the inaccessibility of implanted embryos, multiply experime ...

Cell Press - Elsevier2019

The NAD-Booster Nicotinamide Riboside Potently Stimulates Hematopoiesis through Increased Mitochondrial Clearance

Matthias Lütolf, Yannick Lionel Yersin, Vincent Trachsel, Bart Deplancke, Nicola Vannini, Johan Auwerx, Pedro Romero, Carlos Canto Alvarez, Martin Ehrbar, Mukul Girotra, Aurélien Laurent Jean-Charles Oggier, Dongryeol Ryu, Eija Riitta Pirinen, Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Pernille Yde Rainer, Gennady Nikitin, Vasco Ledebur de Antas de Campos, Joanna Ratajczak, Loïc Tauzin, Josefine Catharina Pedersen Tratwal, Federico Sizzano, George Coukos, Sonja Giger, Shanti Rojas-Sutterlin, Yang Li, Simone Ragusa

It has been recently shown that increased oxidative phosphorylation, as reflected by increased mitochondrial activity, together with impairment of the mitochondrial stress response, can severely compromise hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) regeneration. Here w ...

CELL PRESS2019

Tissue-Engineering the Intestine: The Trials before the Trials

Matthias Lütolf

Building complex tissues requires the development of innovative interdisciplinary engineering solutions. In this Forum, the INTENS Consortium discuss experimental considerations and challenges for generating a tissue-engineered intestine for the treatment ...

CELL PRESS2019

Mitochondrial ph probe

Matthias Lütolf, Gennady Nikitin, Anders Meibom

The present invention relates to dual fluorophore ratiometric mitochondrial pH probes, their uses and their manufacture. ...

2019

High-throughput stem cell-based phenotypic screening through microniches

Matthias Lütolf, Simone Allazetta, Laura Kolb, Mehmet Ugur Girgin

As the field of tissue engineering develops, methods for screening combinations of signals for their effects on stem cell behavior are needed. We introduce a microgel-based screening platform for testing combinations of in situ-generated proteins on stem c ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Synthetic 3D PEG-Anisogel Tailored with Fibronectin Fragments Induce Aligned Nerve Extension

Matthias Lütolf, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Delphine Lorraine Perle Blondel

An enzymatically cross-linked polyethylene glycol (PEG)-based hydrogel was engineered to promote and align nerve cells in a three-dimensional manner. To render the injectable, otherwise bioinert, PEG-based material supportive for cell growth, its mechanica ...

American Chemical Society2019

The heparin binding domain of von Willebrand factor binds to growth factors and promotes angiogenesis in wound healing

Matthias Lütolf, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Yoji Tabata, Jun Ishihara, Kazuto Fukunaga

During wound healing, the distribution, availability, and signaling of growth factors (GFs) are orchestrated by their binding to extracellular matrix components in the wound microenvironment. Extracellular matrix proteins have been shown to modulate angiog ...

AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY2019

A bioinspired synthetic niche enables culture of liver organoids suitable for clinical application

Matthias Lütolf, Kristina Schoonjans

WILEY2019

Pharmacological induction of a progenitor state for the efficient expansion of primary human hepatocytes

Matthias Lütolf, Didier Trono, Nathalie Brandenberg, Marc Samuel Friedli, Marco Cassano, Carmen Maria Unzu Ezquerro, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert

The liver is an organ with strong regenerative capacity, yet primary hepatocytes have a low amplification potential in vitro, a major limitation for the cell-based therapy of liver disorders and for ex vivo biological screens. Induced pluripotent stem cell ...

2019

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