Name: isolation of cd 90+ fibroblast/myofibroblasts from human frozen gastrointestinal specimens
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This work was supported by National Institute of Health (1R01DK103150-01A1, T32 DK007639, R01CA175803, K08CA125209) and the Institute for Translational Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and a Clinical and Translational Science Award (8UL1TR000071).

The protocol for obtaining discarded human tissue from surgical patients and the establishment of primary cultures was approved by the University of Texas Medical Branch and University of New Mexico Institutional Review Boards. The general requirements for the procurement of human tissue specimens is described below. Note that since MFs may be isolated from frozen tissue, biobanks and commercial vendors are also viable options.
1. Obtain Human Tissue
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While this protocol was developed for the research application only, in the light of growing critical importance of stromal cells as a potential cancer prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic target, the ability to freeze &#34;functional&#34; biospecimens for later use offers a significant advantage. This represents a unique advantage for creation of clinical biorepository, which may serve as additional tools serving to advance the development of personalized medicine10, 11. Similar to findings previously report...

Myofibroblasts/fibroblasts (MFs) represent an abundant population of cells in gastrointestinal (GI) mucosa. These stromal cells are located just beneath the epithelium and form an interconnected network within mucosal lamina propria in the gut. MFs are not only responsible for the deposition of the extracellular matrix, but through paracrine regulation may influence electrolyte transport, restitution, and barrier function of the adjacent epithelium1, 2. Furthermore, MFs have been shown to play a key role in inflammation and tissue remodeling3, 4. Myofibroblasts are a critical part of the tumor microenvironment, where they are also known as cancer-associated fibroblasts, and contribute to the tumor cell growth and serve as a niche for cancer stem cells3. Emerging data suggests that MFs may also serve as local antigen presenting cells. Additionally, MFs function as important regulators of innate and adaptive immune responses, producing a variety of cytokines and growth factors5.
In healthy individuals, MFs cells are believed to differentiate from mesenchymal stem cells and express on their cell surface, the mesenchymal marker, CD903, 5. These cells are also positive for vimentin, but negative for epithelial and hematopoietic cell marker, EpCAM and CD45, respectively. Myofibroblasts are suggested to be an activated form of fibroblasts and can be distinguished from non-activated fibroblasts by the expression of &#945;-SMA5.
Over the past decade, multiple approaches for the isolation of myofibroblasts from human colonic mucosa have been published-mostly based on the method originally described by Mahida et al.5-8. While individual studies report isolation procedures from various gut mucosa, no universal protocol for the isolation of MFs from multiple areas of the GI tract (i.e., gastric, small and large intestinal mucosa) has been published. The protocol presented herein has been tested and successfully used for all three type of tissue mentioned above. . Furthermore, procedures for isolating MFs from frozen GI mucosa have not been reported.
Here, we present an optimized method, which is based on enzymatic digestion, and concurrently allows for the isolation of human gut mucosal MFs for culture and flow cytometry analysis in freshly-digested, single cell, mucosal preparations. This technique reliably yields primary cultures with an MF phenotype. Furthermore, the same methods can be used to isolate MFs from frozen specimens of gastric and small intestinal tissues&#160;as well. Isolation of myofibroblasts from fresh GI tissue has been previously described; however, the utilization of frozen specimens presents many benefits. Namely, researchers would be able to collect and store tissues from any number of collaborators across the world who have the capability to ship frozen tissue samples. Moreover, researchers may find the collection of discarded tissue from the operating room and/or endoscopy suite and immediate processing the tissue for isolation to conflict with their current experimentation schedule. Also, due to the unpredictable nature of surgery, tissue procurement may occur very late in the day, which will limit the time left for processing tissue. Freezing tissue for later processing will ameliorate these challenges.
Lastly, these methods have been successfully utilized in the isolation of colonic, gastric and small intestinal myofibroblasts in disease states such as colorectal carcinoma and inflammatory bowel diseases.

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isolation of cd 90+ fibroblast/myofibroblasts from human frozen gastrointestinal specimens

Fibroblasts/myofibroblasts (MFs) have been gaining increasing attention for their role in pathogenesis and their contributions to both wound healing and promotion of the tumor microenvironment. While there are currently many techniques for the isolation of MFs from gastrointestinal (GI) tissues, this protocol introduces a novel element of isolation of these stromal cells from frozen tissue. Freezing GI tissue specimens not only allows the researcher to acquire samples from worldwide collaborators, biobanks, and commercial vendors, it also permits the delayed processing of fresh samples. The described protocol will consistently yield characteristic spindle-shaped cells with the MF phenotype that express the markers CD90, &#945;-SMA and vimentin. As these cells are derived from patient samples, the use of primary cells also confers the benefit of closely mimicking MFs from disease states-namely cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases. This technique has been validated in gastric, small bowel, and colonic MF primary culture generation. Primary MF cultures can be used in a vast array of experiments over a number of passage and their purity assessed by both immunocytochemistry and flow cytometry analysis.

Using this enzymatic digestion protocol, we have consistently been able to isolate and grow MF population gut CD90+ mucosal stromal cells from GI surgical specimens and biopsies (Figure 1). Visible MF colony proliferation could be observed on day 2 - 5 after seeding mononuclear cell suspensions into 6 well plates (Figure 1A-B). The MF primary cultures reach ~ 50 - 70 % confluence by day 7 - 11 (Figure 1C-D).
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Isolation of CD 90+ Fibroblast/Myofibroblasts from Human Frozen Gastrointestinal Specimens

Here, a protocol to isolate and establish primary fibroblast/myofibroblast (MF) cultures from frozen gastric, small intestinal, and colonic tissue-yielding cells with a MF phenotype-is presented. These cells express CD90, &#945;-SMA and vimentin. MFs can be used for a variety of functional assays including enzymatic activity and cytokine production.


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