Cardiac Fibroblast Co-culture
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Establishing Primary Adult Fibroblast Cultures From Rodents
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This article describes a protocol for isolation and maintenance of primary fibroblast cultures from skin and lung tissue of wild rodents.
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Isolation, Culture, and Characterization of Prostate Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts
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This protocol provides a comprehensive procedure to isolate, expand, and immortalize fibroblasts from radical prostatectomies. Moreover, it describes assays developed to assess the functional effects of fibroblast-tumor cell crosstalk, taking advantage of both treatment with conditioned medium and co-culturing.
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Rapid Culturing of Primary Murine Melanocytes and Fibroblasts: Isolating Melanocytes and Fibroblasts from Whole Murine Skin Sample
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2023
This video describes the rapid method to isolate and culture the melanocytes and fibroblast simultaneously from the postnatal mouse pup’s skin. These cells can be maintained and manipulated in vitro to study skin cell biology, wound healing, and melanoma.
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Production of Cardiac Extracellular Matrix from Adult Human Fibroblasts for Culture Dish Coating
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2024
Fibroblasts isolated from the adult human heart were cultured to confluence on gelatin-coated dishes to produce the myocardium-specific extracellular matrix. After decellularization, this substrate can be used for the culture and study of other cardiac cells and cell-matrix interactions.
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Magnetically Bioprinted 3D Spheroid Co-cultures: A Method for Co-culturing Cancerous Cells and Fibroblasts
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2023
This video explains the 3D magnetic bioprinting of co-cultured pancreatic cancer cells and fibroblasts. Pancreatic cancer cells and activated pancreatic fibroblast cells are co-cultured and magnetized using a biocompatible nanoparticle assembly, to generate spheroids, under the influence of magnetic forces.
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Communication occurs through three linked routes: paracrine signaling, direct cell-cell communication, and extracellular matrix remodeling. Paracrine signaling allows one cell type to influence another through released factors, while direct contact provides local interaction. Matrix remodeling changes the surrounding structural environment, giving fibroblasts multiple ways to alter tissue organization and cardiomyocyte behavior within the engineered model.
Extracellular matrix remodeling connects cellular communication with tissue structure. As fibroblasts modify the surrounding matrix, they can influence how cardiac cells are organized and how cardiomyocytes function. This feature makes the model useful for examining structural changes associated with remodeling and fibrosis, rather than assessing cardiomyocyte behavior in isolation from its supporting cellular environment.
Outcomes can vary with the presence of drugs, biomaterials, and mechanical conditions. These variables may affect cardiac cell behavior, tissue structure, or overall tissue performance, making them important experimental inputs rather than background details. Studying their effects helps bioengineers determine how engineered cardiac systems respond to altered chemical, material, or mechanical environments.
A typical bioengineering workflow grows cardiac fibroblasts alongside cardiomyocytes or other cardiac cell types, then examines how their interactions affect the developing tissue. The resulting co-culture can be integrated into engineered cardiac tissues or organ-on-chip systems. This approach preserves relevant cellular communication while allowing researchers to evaluate structure, cell behavior, and tissue performance in a controlled in vitro setting.
These models support disease studies focused on fibrosis and remodeling by reproducing interactions that influence tissue organization and cardiomyocyte function. Researchers can examine how fibroblast-associated signaling and matrix changes contribute to altered cardiac behavior, then use the same platform to test how drugs or biomaterials modify those responses. The outcome is a model that links cellular mechanisms with tissue-level changes.
Bioengineers can use the system when they need to assess how a drug, biomaterial, or mechanical condition affects more than one cardiac cell type. Because the co-culture includes fibroblast-mediated signaling and matrix remodeling, it provides context for evaluating tissue structure and performance. This makes it relevant for engineered cardiac tissues, organ-on-chip platforms, and in vitro disease models.