1) The document discusses using intestinal organoids as an in vitro model to study enteric diseases in pigs. Organoids mimic intestinal tissue and present all organ-specific cell types.
2) The author's project uses mouse enteroids to study the pathogen Lawsonia intracellularis, which causes proliferative enteropathy in pigs. Preliminary results show the enteroids are permissive to L. intracellularis infection.
3) The goal is to further study the mechanisms of proliferation caused by L. intracellularis using the enteroid model to develop new treatment and control strategies for the disease. The author is also working to characterize and develop pig intestinal organoids for host-pathogen interaction studies.
Dr. Talita Resende - Organoids as an invitro model for enteric diseases
1. Organoids as an in vitro model for enteric disease
Talita Resende
PhD candidate
Advisors: Dr. Connie Gebhart & Dr. Fabio Vannucci
Collaborator: Dr. Milena Saqui-Salces
Allen D. Leman Swine Conference
2018
2. Enteric diseases – infectious agents
Image adapted from: Holman, Devin B., et al MSystems 2.3 (2017): e00004-17.
3. Enteric diseases – infectious agents
Image adapted from: Holman, Devin B., et al MSystems 2.3 (2017): e00004-17.
PEDV
TGEV
PDCoV
E. coli, enterotoxigenic
Rotaviruses
Brachyspira hyodysenteriae,
B. hampsonii, B. pilosicoli
Salmonella
Typhimurium, Cholerasuis
Lawsonia intracellularis Coccidiosis
Trichuris
Ascaris suis
4. Enteric diseases – infectious agents
Images: Holman, Devin B., et al MSystems 2.3 (2017): e00004-17
Van den Bossche, L. (2017) (Doctoral dissertation, Ghent University)..
5. Host–pathogen interactions
Intestine
Dutta and Clevers, 2017
• Animal models
Instrumental to host–microbe interactions
• Well established
• Uncontrollable microbial diversity
Inter-species variances
Expensive
Ethical concerns
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6. Host–pathogen interactions
Intestine
Dutta and Clevers, 2017
Pampaloni et al, 2007
• Single cell type cultures
Closer to the ‘real situation’
• Well established
• Relatively cheap
• Lack the relationship between different cell types
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Gebhart’s lab
7. • Organoids
•Organotypic tridimensional (3D) structures
•Matrix/scaffold based 3D in vitro culture systems
–Supports the 3D growth
•Originated from
–Embryonic stem cells
–Induced pluripotent cells
–Primary tissues
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Brain
Intestine
Liver
Lung
Host–pathogen interactions
Dutta and Clevers, 2017
Pampaloni et al, 2007
8. • 3D in vitro/ex vivo models = Organoids
• Present all organ-specific cell types on their surface
Function as the tissue of origin
• Self-renewed and self-organized
• Reduce use of animals (1 animal = numerous organoids)
Requires expertise to be established routinely
Host–pathogen interactions
Dutta and Clevers, 2017
Pampaloni et al, 2007
9. •Small intestine – enteroids
•Colon - colonoids
•Crypts and villi (small intestine) morphologically
similar to the intestinal conformation
•In vitro model with tissue-like morpho-physiology
Intestinal organoids
Saqui-Salces’ and Gebhart’s labs
Fatehullah et al, 2016
Dutta and Clevers, 2017
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11. • Some examples of applicability
• Portal of entry
• Shigella and M cells
• Cellular modulation
• Cryptosporidium parvum, Salmonella
• Cytokine release and protein production
• Clostridium difficile
• Viral replication
• Human Norovirus, Rotavirus
• Non-infectious diseases: colorectal carcinoma
Intestinal organoids - Host-pathogen interactions
12. • Cryptosporidium parvum (Zhang et al, 2016)
• Inhibitory effect on the ex vivo propagation of enteroids from mice
• Decreased expression level of intestinal stem cell markers Stem cells
Intestinal organoids - Host-pathogen interactions
13. • Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium
• Cytokine release
• Impact in production of α-defensin-5 (Crp5)
Wilson et al, 2015
Forbester et al, 2015
Intestinal organoids - Host-pathogen interactions
14. • Rotavirus
• Susceptibility to infection treatment efficacy tests
Yin et al, 2017Yin et al, 2015
Mab “Antivirulence therapy”
Intestinal organoids - Host-pathogen interactions
16. Our project
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Vannucci &
Gebhart
• Proliferative enteropathy
• Caused by Lawsonia intracellularis
• Cellular proliferation – crypts
• Unknown mechanism
• Cell monocultures
• Used over the years as in vitro models
• Do not replicate cellular proliferation
(Resende et al, 2018 – submitted for publication)
19. • Mouse enteroids are permissive to infection
• Changes at 3dpi: area, Ki-67 expression, Muc2 expression
• Check cellular proliferation, modulation of epithelial cells, apoptosis rate
• Then what?
• Initiate further research of the mechanisms of proliferation
• New strategies for controlling the disease (antivirulence treatment, antibiotic alternatives)
Our project
20. • Pig enteroids characterized (Gonzalez et al, 2013)
• Nutrition investigation (Koltes and Gabler, 2015)
• No host-pathogen interaction study to date
• Where are we?
• Successful development of pig enteroids
• Currently: Characterization, evaluation of freezing-
thawing effects
• Collaboration with Dr. Milena Saqui-Salces
Pig organoids?
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HE
PAS – globlet cells
Ki-67 - proliferation
21. Final considerations
• Intestinal organoids
• The most promising “in vivo/ex vivo” model to investigate
host-pathogen interactions
• Closer to in vivo, but with controlled experimental
conditions
• Need to acquire expertise – new technique
• Host-pathogen interactions of important enteropathogens
in swine industry
• Development of new strategies of treatment and control
22. • Dr. Milena Salqui-Salces
– Ashley Manicor
– Yue Guo
– Lekha Medida
• Dr. Gebhart’s lab
– Lacey M. Lund
– Erika Vasquez
– Amanda Daniel
• VDL Histo and IHC labs
Acknowledgements
Thank you!
Questions?
Talita Resende
resen023@umn.edu
Acknowledgements