Three-dimensional spatially resolved geometrical and functional models of human liver tissue reveal new aspects of NAFLD progression.
Early disease diagnosis is key to the effective treatment of diseases. Histopathological analysis of human biopsies is the gold standard to diagnose tissue alterations. However, this approach has low resolution and overlooks 3D (three-dimensional) structural changes resulting from functional alterations. Here, we applied multiphoton imaging, 3D digital reconstructions and computational simulations to generate spatially resolved geometrical and functional models of human liver tissue at different stages of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). We identified a set of morphometric cellular and tissue parameters correlated with disease progression, and discover profound topological defects in the 3D bile canalicular (BC) network. Personalized biliary fluid dynamic simulations predicted an increased pericentral biliary pressure and micro-cholestasis, consistent with elevated cholestatic biomarkers in patients' sera. Our spatially resolved models of human liver tissue can contribute to high-definition medicine by identifying quantitative multiparametric cellular and tissue signatures to define disease progression and provide new insights into NAFLD pathophysiology.
SEEK ID: https://seek.lisym.org/publications/192
PubMed ID: 31792455
Projects: LiSyM Pillar I: Early Metabolic Injury (LiSyM-EMI), LiSyM network
Publication type: Not specified
Journal: Nat Med
Citation: Nat Med. 2019 Dec 2. pii: 10.1038/s41591-019-0660-7. doi: 10.1038/s41591-019-0660-7.
Date Published: 2nd Dec 2019
Registered Mode: Not specified
Views: 2582
Created: 4th Dec 2019 at 10:11
Last updated: 8th Mar 2024 at 07:44
This item has not yet been tagged.
None