PMID- 31726669 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200722 LR - 20200722 IS - 2073-4409 (Electronic) IS - 2073-4409 (Linking) VI - 8 IP - 11 DP - 2019 Nov 12 TI - Combinatory Multifactor Treatment Effects on Primary Nanofiber Oligodendrocyte Cultures. LID - 10.3390/cells8111422 [doi] LID - 1422 AB - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system. Neurological deficits are attributed to inflammatory demyelination, which compromises axonal function and survival. These are mitigated in experimental models by rapid and often complete remyelination of affected axons, but in MS this endogenous repair mechanism frequently fails, leaving axons increasingly vulnerable to the detrimental effects of inflammatory and metabolic stress. Understanding the molecular basis of remyelination and remyelination failure is essential to develop improved therapies for this devastating disease. However, recent studies suggest that this is not due to a single dominant mechanism, but rather represents the biological outcome of multiple changes in the lesion microenvironment that combine to disrupt oligodendrocyte differentiation. This identifies a pressing need to develop technical platforms to investigate combinatory and/or synergistic effects of factors differentially expressed in MS lesions on oligodendrocyte proliferation and differentiation. Here we describe protocols using primary oligodendrocyte cultures from Bl6 mice on 384-well nanofiber plates to model changes affecting oligodendrogenesis and differentiation in the complex signaling environment associated with multiple sclerosis lesions. Using platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF-AA), fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2), bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) and bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) as representative targets, we demonstrate that we can assess their combinatory effects across a wide range of concentrations in a single experiment. This in vitro model is ideal for assessing the combinatory effects of changes in availability of multiple factors, thus more closely modelling the situation in vivo and furthering high-throughput screening possibilities. FAU - Enz, Lukas S AU - Enz LS AD - Neurobiology, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University Basel, Zentrum fur Lehre und Forschung, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Zeis, Thomas AU - Zeis T AD - Neurobiology, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University Basel, Zentrum fur Lehre und Forschung, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Hauck, Annalisa AU - Hauck A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6853-8363 AD - Neurobiology, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University Basel, Zentrum fur Lehre und Forschung, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Linington, Christopher AU - Linington C AD - Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK. FAU - Schaeren-Wiemers, Nicole AU - Schaeren-Wiemers N AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6554-4725 AD - Neurobiology, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University Basel, Zentrum fur Lehre und Forschung, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20191112 PL - Switzerland TA - Cells JT - Cells JID - 101600052 RN - 0 (Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2) RN - 0 (Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4) RN - 0 (Platelet-Derived Growth Factor) RN - 0 (platelet-derived growth factor A) RN - 103107-01-3 (Fibroblast Growth Factor 2) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2/pharmacology MH - Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4/pharmacology MH - Cell Differentiation/drug effects MH - Cell Proliferation/drug effects MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Fibroblast Growth Factor 2/pharmacology MH - Humans MH - Mice MH - Models, Theoretical MH - Multiple Sclerosis/*metabolism/therapy MH - Myelin Sheath/*metabolism MH - Nanofibers MH - Oligodendroglia/*cytology/drug effects/metabolism MH - Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/pharmacology MH - Primary Cell Culture/*instrumentation/methods PMC - PMC6912369 OTO - NOTNLM OT - multiple sclerosis OT - myelin OT - nanofibers OT - oligodendrocyte OT - remyelination OT - screening COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2019/11/16 06:00 MHDA- 2020/07/23 06:00 PMCR- 2019/11/01 CRDT- 2019/11/16 06:00 PHST- 2019/09/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/10/29 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/11/05 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/11/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/11/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/07/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/11/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - cells8111422 [pii] AID - cells-08-01422 [pii] AID - 10.3390/cells8111422 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Cells. 2019 Nov 12;8(11):1422. doi: 10.3390/cells8111422.