Nachiket Vartak

About Nachiket Vartak:
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SEEK ID: https://seek.lisym.org/people/34

Location:  Germany

Expertise: Hepatocytes, Molecular Biology, Signal transduction, Spatio-temporal Modelling, Systems Biology, in vivo imaging, functional imaging

Tools: confocal microscopy, 3D reconstruction, live cell imaging, image analysis, in vivo 2-photon imaging

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LiSyM: Liver Systems Medicine

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Public web page: http://www.lisym.org

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Molecular Steatosis - Imaging & Modeling (LiSyM-MSIM)

Dr. Nachiket Vartak (TU University, Dortmund) investigates the role of a particular protein - the GTPase Rab18 - in initiating NAFLD. He tries to influence Rab18 pharmacologically so that NAFLD is not initiated. Vartak also analyzes how bile acids leave the liver. He hopes to find ways to improve the flow of bile in a liver with dysfunctional bile flow.

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Intravital microscopy of bile flux
Molecular Steatosis - Imaging & Modeling (LiSyM-MSIM)
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On the mechanisms of biliary flux
Molecular Steatosis - Imaging & Modeling (LiSyM-MSIM), LiSyM network

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Authors: Nachiket Vartak, Dirk Drasdo, Fabian Geisler, Tohru Itoh, Ronald P.J. Oude Elferink, Stan F.J. van de Graaf, John Chiang, Verena Keitel, Michael Trauner, Peter Jansen, Jan G Hengstler

Date Published: 23rd Jun 2021

Publication Type: Journal

Intravital dynamic and correlative imaging reveals diffusion‐dominated canalicular and flow‐augmented ductular bile flux
Molecular Steatosis - Imaging & Modeling (LiSyM-MSIM), LiSyM network

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Small‐molecule flux in tissue‐microdomains is essential for organ function, but knowledge of this process is scant due to the lack of suitable methods. We developed two independent techniques that allow … the quantification of advection (flow) and diffusion in individual bile canaliculi and in interlobular bile ducts of intact livers in living mice, namely Fluorescence Loss After Photoactivation (FLAP) and Intravital Arbitrary Region Image Correlation Spectroscopy (IVARICS). The results challenge the prevailing ‘mechano‐osmotic’ theory of canalicular bile flow. After active transport across hepatocyte membranes bile acids are transported in the canaliculi primarily by diffusion. Only in the interlobular ducts, diffusion is augmented by regulatable advection. Photoactivation of fluorescein bis‐(5‐carboxymethoxy‐2‐nitrobenzyl)‐ether (CMNB‐caged fluorescein) in entire lobules demonstrated the establishment of diffusive gradients in the bile canalicular network and the sink function of interlobular ducts. In contrast to the bile canalicular network, vectorial transport was detected and quantified in the mesh of interlobular bile ducts. In conclusion, the liver consists of a diffusion dominated canalicular domain, where hepatocytes secrete small molecules and generate a concentration gradient and a flow‐augmented ductular domain, where regulated water influx creates unidirectional advection that augments the diffusive flux.

Authors: Nachiket Vartak, Georgia Guenther, Florian Joly, Amruta Damle‐Vartak, Gudrun Wibbelt, Jörns Fickel, Simone Jörs, Brigitte Begher‐Tibbe, Adrian Friebel, Kasimir Wansing, Ahmed Ghallab, Marie Rosselin, Noemie Boissier, Irene Vignon‐Clementel, Christian Hedberg, Fabian Geisler, Heribert Hofer, Peter Jansen, Stefan Hoehme, Dirk Drasdo, Jan G. Hengstler

Date Published: 19th Jun 2020

Publication Type: Journal

Intravital dynamic and correlative imaging reveals diffusion-dominated canalicular and flow-augmented ductular bile flux
Molecular Steatosis - Imaging & Modeling (LiSyM-MSIM)

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Small-molecule flux in tissue-microdomains is essential for organ function, but knowledge of this process is scant due to the lack of suitable methods applicable to live animals. We developed a methodology … based on dynamic and correlative imaging for quantitative intravital flux analysis. Application to the liver, challenged the prevailing ‘mechano-osmotic’ theory of canalicular bile flow. After active transport across hepatocyte membranes bile salts are transported in the canaliculi primarily by diffusion. Only in the interlobular ducts, diffusion is augmented by regulatable advection. We corroborate these observations with in silico simulations and pan-species comparisons of lobule size. This study demonstrates a flux mechanism, where the energy invested in transmembrane transport entropically dissipates in a sub-micron scale vessel network.

Authors: Nachiket Vartak, Georgia Guenther, Florian Joly, Amruta Damle-Vartak, Gudrun Wibbelt, Jörns Fickel, Simone Jörs, Brigitte Begher-Tibbe, Adrian Friebel, Kasimir Wansing, Ahmed Ghallab, Marie Rosselin, Noemie Boissier, Irene Vignon-Clementel, Christian Hedberg, Fabian Geisler, Heribert Hofer, Peter Jansen, Stefan Hoehme, Dirk Drasdo, Jan G. Hengstler

Date Published: 26th Sep 2019

Publication Type: Journal

Pipe-3D: A Pipeline Based on Immunofluorescence, 3D Confocal Imaging, Reconstructions, and Morphometry for Biliary Network Analysis in Cholestasis
Molecular Steatosis - Imaging & Modeling (LiSyM-MSIM), LiSyM network

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Authors: Amruta Damle-Vartak, Brigitte Begher-Tibbe, Georgia Gunther, Fabian Geisler, Nachiket Vartak, Jan G. Hengstler

Date Published: 2019

Publication Type: Book

3D visualization of the biliary tree by X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography
Molecular Steatosis - Imaging & Modeling (LiSyM-MSIM)

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Author: Amruta Damle-Vartak

Date Published: 1st Dec 2018

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Participant Abstracts LiSyM Retreat 2020
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Creator: Nachiket Vartak

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LiSyM Ph.D Postdoc Retreat 2020

Venue : Evangelische Tagungsstätte Hofgeismar, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe

This young scientist retreat is being organized by the Junior Group Leaders, Madlen Matz-Soja, Matthias König, Ahmed Ghallab and Nachiket Vartak.

Start Date: 29th Jan 2020

End Date: 31st Jan 2020

Event Website: http://bit.ly/lisymretreat2020

Country:  Germany

City: Hofgeismar

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