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Shibru MG, Ali ZM, Almansoori AS, Paunovic J, Pantic IV, Corridon PR. Slaughterhouse waste: a unique and sustainable source for dECM-based bioinks. Regen Med 2024; 19:113-118. [PMID: 38356397 DOI: 10.2217/rme-2023-0194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Meklit G Shibru
- Department of Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science & Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science & Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science & Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- University of Belgrade, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathophysiology, Dr. Subotica 9, RS-11129, Belgrade, Serbia
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- University of Belgrade, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Physiology, Laboratory for Cellular Physiology, Visegradska 26/II, RS-11129, Belgrade, Serbia
- University of Haifa, 199 Abba Hushi Blvd, Mount Carmel, Haifa, IL, 3498838, Israel
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science & Technology
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering & Biotechnology, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science & Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Biomedical Engineering & Healthcare Engineering Innovation Center, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science & Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Pantic IV, Cumic J, Valjarevic S, Shakeel A, Wang X, Vurivi H, Daoud S, Chan V, Petroianu GA, Shibru MG, Ali ZM, Nesic D, Salih AE, Butt H, Corridon PR. Computational approaches for evaluating morphological changes in the corneal stroma associated with decellularization. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2023; 11:1105377. [PMID: 37304146 PMCID: PMC10250676 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1105377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Decellularized corneas offer a promising and sustainable source of replacement grafts, mimicking native tissue and reducing the risk of immune rejection post-transplantation. Despite great success in achieving acellular scaffolds, little consensus exists regarding the quality of the decellularized extracellular matrix. Metrics used to evaluate extracellular matrix performance are study-specific, subjective, and semi-quantitative. Thus, this work focused on developing a computational method to examine the effectiveness of corneal decellularization. We combined conventional semi-quantitative histological assessments and automated scaffold evaluations based on textual image analyses to assess decellularization efficiency. Our study highlights that it is possible to develop contemporary machine learning (ML) models based on random forests and support vector machine algorithms, which can identify regions of interest in acellularized corneal stromal tissue with relatively high accuracy. These results provide a platform for developing machine learning biosensing systems for evaluating subtle morphological changes in decellularized scaffolds, which are crucial for assessing their functionality.
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Affiliation(s)
- Igor V. Pantic
- Department of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Visegradska 26/II, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
- University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Hospital Center Zemun, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare Engineering Innovation Center, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Anatomical Pathology Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare Engineering Innovation Center, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Visegradska 26/II, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare Engineering Innovation Center, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Pantic IV, Shakeel A, Petroianu GA, Corridon PR. Analysis of Vascular Architecture and Parenchymal Damage Generated by Reduced Blood Perfusion in Decellularized Porcine Kidneys Using a Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9:797283. [PMID: 35360034 PMCID: PMC8963813 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.797283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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There is no cure for kidney failure, but a bioartificial kidney may help address this global problem. Decellularization provides a promising platform to generate transplantable organs. However, maintaining a viable vasculature is a significant challenge to this technology. Even though angiography offers a valuable way to assess scaffold structure/function, subtle changes are overlooked by specialists. In recent years, various image analysis methods in radiology have been suggested to detect and identify subtle changes in tissue architecture. The aim of our research was to apply one of these methods based on a gray level co-occurrence matrix (Topalovic et al.) computational algorithm in the analysis of vascular architecture and parenchymal damage generated by hypoperfusion in decellularized porcine. Perfusion decellularization of the whole porcine kidneys was performed using previously established protocols. We analyzed and compared angiograms of kidneys subjected to pathophysiological arterial perfusion of whole blood. For regions of interest Santos et al. covering kidney medulla and the main elements of the vascular network, five major GLCM features were calculated: angular second moment as an indicator of textural uniformity, inverse difference moment as an indicator of textural homogeneity, GLCM contrast, GLCM correlation, and sum variance of the co-occurrence matrix. In addition to GLCM, we also performed discrete wavelet transform analysis of angiogram ROIs by calculating the respective wavelet coefficient energies using high and low-pass filtering. We report statistically significant changes in GLCM and wavelet features, including the reduction of the angular second moment and inverse difference moment, indicating a substantial rise in angiogram textural heterogeneity. Our findings suggest that the GLCM method can be successfully used as an addition to conventional fluoroscopic angiography analyses of micro/macrovascular integrity following in vitro blood perfusion to investigate scaffold integrity. This approach is the first step toward developing an automated network that can detect changes in the decellularized vasculature.
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- Igor V Pantic
- Department of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.,University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Immunology and Physiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.,Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.,Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare Engineering Innovation Center, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.,Center for Biotechnology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Gojnic MG, Dugalic SV, Stefanovic AO, Stefanovic KV, Petronijevic MA, Vrzic Petronijevic SM, Pantic IV, Perovic MD, Vasiljevic BI, Milincic NM, Zaric MM, Todorovic JS, Macura M. Combined hereditary thrombophilias are responsible for poor placental vascularization development and low molecular weight heparins (LMWH) prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes in these patients. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2020; 35:4346-4353. [PMID: 33207979 DOI: 10.1080/14767058.2020.1849116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Even though thrombophilias are associated with negative pregnancy outcomes (PO), there is not a consensus of when thrombophilias should be screened for, or how they affect placental vascularization during pregnancy. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to discover inherited thrombophilias (IHT) in the first trimester in women with otherwise no indications for thrombophilia screening, based on their vascularization parameters. LMWH treatment in improvement of placental vascularization and PO was also assessed. Finally, the classification of thrombophilias based on observed obstetric risks was proposed. METHODS Women were included in study based on their poor gestational sac and later utero-placental juncture vascularization signal and screening for inherited thrombophilias. LMWH were then initiated and Resistance index of Uterine artery (RIAU) was followed alongside PO (preterm birth, preeclampsia, placental abruption, intrauterine growth reduction). Study group consisted of women with combined inherited thrombophilias. Control group consisted of patients with inherited thrombophilias who have received LMWH therapy since pregnancy beginning. FINDINGS Out of 219 women, 93 had IHT, and 43 had combined IHT. All pregnancies both in both groups ended up with live births. Vaginal birth was more present in the control group (p < .001), and all women in study group delivered by CS. Premature birth was present in 8.4% of patients in control group, and in 32.55% of the patients in the study (p < .001). PE wasn't noted, and only 1 case of PA in control group. In the control group, 6.5% patients had IUGR, and 32.55% in the study group (p < .05). Based on RIAU and PO, thrombophilia categories were established: S (severe), MO (moderate), MI (mild) and L (low). Higher risk thrombophilias had higher RIAU later in the pregnancy, earlier pregnancy termination and Intrauterine Growth Reduction (IUGR). CONCLUSIONS Thrombophilias should be considered and screened when poor vascularization is noted early in the pregnancy with Doppler sonography. Intervention with LMWH prevents adverse PO in these patients.
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- Miroslava G Gojnic
- Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.,School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.,School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.,School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.,School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.,School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.,School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.,Laboratory for Cellular Physiology, School of Medicine, Institute of Medical Physiology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.,Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics Narodni Front, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Maternal and Child Services, NMC Royal Hospital DOP Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.,School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.,School of Medicine, Institute of Social Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Clinic for Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
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