Jae Hun Hun Kim

Dr. Jae Hun Hun Kim


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Academic Career Length

16Years (2011-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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30 August 2024 in Toxics
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MMMéry Marimoutou
Méry Marimoutou
VPVivek Patel
Vivek Patel
JKJae Hun Hun Kim
Jae Hun Hun Kim
NSNiccole Schaible
Niccole Schaible
JAJose Alvarez
Jose Alvarez
HBHolger Behrsing
Holger Behrsing
Human precision-cut lung slices (hPCLS) prepared from fibrotic lungs recapitulate the pathophysiological hallmarks of fibrosis. These hallmark features can also be induced by treating non-fibrotic hPCLS with a fibrotic cocktail (FC). As a result, the fibrotic and fibrosis-induced hPCLS are rapidly emerging as preferred models for disease modeling and drug discovery. However, current hPCLS models are limited by tissue viability in culture, as they are usually only viable for one week after harvesting. Here, we demonstrate that the fibrotic hPCLS can be cryopreserved, stored for months, and then thawed on demand without loss of hPCLS viability or protein content for 14 days post-thawing. Cryopreservation also preserves the pro-fibrotic potential of non-fibrotic hPCLS. Specifically, when we treated the thawed non-fibrotic hPCLS with an FC, we observed significant pro-fibrotic cytokine secretion and elevated tissue stiffness. These pro-fibrotic changes were inhibited by the small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Nintedanib. Taken together, our work indicates that a feasible solution to prolong the pre-clinical utility of fibrotic and fibrosis-induced hPCLS is cryopreservation. We anticipate that cryopreserved hPCLS will serve as an advantageous predictive model for the evaluation of pro-fibrotic pathways during acute and chronic toxicity testing.

1 September 2011 in Journal of Biomechanics
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JKJae Hun Hun Kim
Jae Hun Hun Kim
JBJames P. Butler
James P. Butler
SLStephen H. Loring
Stephen H. Loring