Abstract
Abstract
Background
High-resolution respirometry (HRR) of human biopsies can provide useful metabolic, diagnostic, and mechanistic insights for clinical research and comparative medical studies. Fresh tissues analysis offers the potential best condition, the drawback being the need to use them shortly after dissection for mitochondrial respiratory experiments. The development of effective long-term storage protocols for biopsies that allow the assessment of key Electron Transport System (ETS) parameters at later stages is thus a major need.
Methods
We optimised a cryopreservation protocol that preserves mitochondrial membranes intactness, otherwise affected by direct tissue freezing. The protocol is based on a gradual freezing step from on-ice to liquid nitrogen and − 80 °C storage using a specific DMSO-based buffer.
Results
Placenta is a suitable tissue to design and test the effectiveness of long-term storage protocols being metabolically active foetal tissue with mitochondrial dysfunctions contributing to placental disease and gestational disorders. Here we designed and tested the effectiveness of the cryopreservation protocol using human placenta biopsies; we measured the ETS activity by HRR of placenta specimens comparing fresh, cryopreserved, and snap frozen conditions.
Conclusions
By this protocol, Oxygen Consumption Rate (OCR) measurements of fresh and cryopreserved placental specimens are comparable whereas snap frozen procedure impairs mitochondrial activity.
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Funder
Università di Milano
Università degli Studi di Milano
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Genetics (clinical),Genetics,Molecular Biology,Molecular Medicine
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