scholarly journals Secreted Factors from Stem Cells of Human Exfoliated Deciduous Teeth Directly Activate Endothelial Cells to Promote All Processes of Angiogenesis

Cells ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 2385
Author(s):  
Makoto Kato ◽  
Shin Tsunekawa ◽  
Nobuhisa Nakamura ◽  
Emiri Miura-Yura ◽  
Yuichiro Yamada ◽  
...  

Diabetes is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis and ischemic vascular diseases. Recently, regenerative medicine is expected to be a novel therapy for ischemic diseases. Our previous studies have reported that transplantation of stem cells promoted therapeutic angiogenesis for diabetic neuropathy and ischemic vascular disease in a paracrine manner, but the precise mechanism is unclear. Therefore, we examined whether secreted factors from stem cells had direct beneficial effects on endothelial cells to promote angiogenesis. The soluble factors were collected as conditioned medium (CM) 48 h after culturing stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED) in serum-free DMEM. SHED-CM significantly increased cell viability of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) in MTT assays and accelerated HUVECs migration in wound healing and Boyden chamber assays. In a Matrigel plug assay of mice, the migrated number of primary endothelial cells was markedly increased in the plug containing SHED-CM or SHED suspension. SHED-CM induced complex tubular structures of HUVECs in a tube formation assay. Furthermore, SHED-CM significantly increased neovascularization from the primary rat aorta, indicating that SHED-CM stimulated primary endothelial cells to promote comprehensive angiogenesis processes. The angiogenic effects of SHED-CM were the same or greater than the effective concentration of VEGF. In conclusion, SHED-CM directly stimulates vascular endothelial cells to promote angiogenesis and is promising for future clinical application.

Tumor Biology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 101042831770164
Author(s):  
Guanying Wang ◽  
Na Yuan ◽  
Shangke Huang ◽  
Lu Feng ◽  
Rui Han ◽  
...  

Fibrinogen Asn-Gly-Arg motif can specifically recognize and bind to Aminopeptidase N (CD13) on vascular endothelial cells in newly formed tumor vessels. Adipose-derived stem cells can serve as ideal vectors for gene therapy because of their ability of migrating to tumor tissues. First, this study was aimed to design a new peptide (CNGRCLLII(KLAKLAK)2) named CNAK which contains cyclic Asn-Gly-Arg motif and test its biological activity against human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Second, we aimed to construct stably transfected adipose-derived stem cells which express the CNAK peptide and investigate their anti-angiogenic activity in vivo. Adipose-derived stem cells were employed to localize CNAK on vascular endothelial cells in tumors based on their homing property. First of all, the new peptide was synthesized, which effectively entered into CD13+ human umbilical vein endothelial cells and showed cytotoxicity against human umbilical vein endothelial cells. The peptide induced apoptosis of human umbilical vein endothelial cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner, inhibited the expression of Bcl-2, and promoted the expression of Caspase-3 in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Furthermore, the migration and tube formation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells were inhibited by CNAK. Primary adipose-derived stem cells were then isolated and identified. Stably transfected adipose-derived stem cells which express CNAK peptide (CNAK-ASCs) were successfully established, and the migration of CNAK-ASCs was assessed. In vivo, CNAK-ASCs were found to inhibit the growth and angiogenesis of breast cancer xenografts. This effect may be through inhibiting the secretion of matrix metalloproteinase-2 and membrane type 1-matrix metalloproteinase in vivo. It was also found that CNAK-ASCs reduced the quantity of breast cancer stem cells in tumor tissues. Our data suggested that the new peptide CNAK containing Asn-Gly-Arg motif had anti-angiogenic activity in vitro and in vivo.


1991 ◽  
Vol 261 (2) ◽  
pp. L133-L139 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Charles ◽  
S. Rounds ◽  
H. W. Farber

Recent studies have demonstrated that serotonin (5-HT) is avidly taken up and metabolized by vascular endothelial cells (EC) and have suggested that 5-HT may contribute to inflammatory responses. Because EC can produce neutrophil cytokines among their biologically active molecules, we hypothesized that the interaction of 5-HT and EC might cause production of such a cytokine. Using a modified Boyden chamber assay, we found that cultured bovine aortic (BA), bovine pulmonary arterial (BPA), and human umbilical vein (HUV) EC incubated with 5-HT produced a neutrophil chemoattractant (NCA). The NCA was predominantly chemotactic, was not stored in an active form, appeared within 5 min of incubation with 5-HT, and required de novo protein synthesis for its appearance. The mechanism of NCA production was different in the three types of EC examined. Elaboration of NCA and BAEC and HUVEC was apparently mediated by 5-HT1 receptors and did not require uptake of 5-HT, whereas its elaboration from BPAEC required 5-HT uptake and was apparently mediated by 5-HT2 receptors. Incubation with three different lipoxygenase inhibitors blocked production of NCA, whereas incubation with a cyclooxygenase inhibitor did not. Further characterization of the NCA demonstrated that it was a mixture of several different chemotactic lipids and was distinct from other lipid or phospholipid neutrophil chemoattractants. These studies suggest that the interaction of the platelet-release product, 5-HT, with the adjacent endothelium results in the production of a chemoattractant that could affect neutrophil accumulation at sites of inflammation.


2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Petrillo ◽  
Tullio Genova ◽  
Giorgia Chinigò ◽  
Ilaria Roato ◽  
Giorgia Scarpellino ◽  
...  

Bone formation involves a complex crosstalk between endothelial cells (EC) and osteodifferentiating stem cells. This functional interplay is greatly mediated by the paracrine and autocrine action of soluble factors released at the vasculature-bone interface. This study elucidates the molecular and functional responses triggered by this intimate interaction. In this study, we showed that human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HMEC) induced the expression of pro-angiogenic factors in stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED) and sustain their osteo-differentiation at the same time. In contrast, osteodifferentiating SHED increased EC recruitment and promoted the formation of complex vascular networks. Moreover, HMEC enhanced anaerobic glycolysis in proliferating SHED without compromising their ability to undergo the oxidative metabolic shift required for adequate osteo-differentiation. Taken together, these findings provide novel insights into the molecular mechanism underlying the synergistic cooperation between EC and stem cells during bone tissue renewal.


1986 ◽  
Vol 55 (03) ◽  
pp. 369-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele De Caterina ◽  
Babette B Weksler

SummaryTo learn whether glucocorticoids inhibit prostaglandin (PG) production in vascular endothelial cells, we investigated the effects of glucocorticoids on PG synthesis by cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (EC). Pretreatment of EC with dexamethasone (DX, 10-9 to 5 x 10-5 M) caused a dose-dependent inhibition of PGI2 production when PG synthesis from endogenous arachidonate was stimulated by human thrombin (0.25-2 U/ml) or ionophore A 23187 (1-5 μM). The inhibition was detectable at 10-7 M DX and maximal at 10-5 M (4.0 ± 0.7 vs. control: 7.7 ± 1.9 ng/ml, mean ± S.D., P <0.01). The production of PGE2 and the release of radiolabelled arachidonate (AA) from prelabelled cells were similarly inhibited. Prolonged incubation of EC with glucocorticoids was required to inhibit PG production or arachidonate release: ranging from 8% inhibition at 5 h to 44% at 38 h. In contrast, prostaglandin formation from exogenous AA was not altered by DX treatment. When thrombin or ionophore-stimulated EC were restimulated with exogenous AA (25 μM), DX-treated cells released more PGI2 than control cells (5.7 ± 0.5 vs. 4.1 ± 0.6 ng/ml, P <0.01). Both the decrease in PGI2 production after thrombin/ionophore and the increase after re-stimulation with AA were blunted in the presence of the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide (0.1-0.2 μg/ml). Thus, incubation of EC with glucocorticoids inhibits PG production at the step of phospholipase activation. The time requirement for these steroid effects and their blunting by cycloheximide are consistent with the induction of regulatory proteins, possibly lipocortins, in endothelial cells.


2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 1341-1344
Author(s):  
Grigore Berea ◽  
Gheorghe Gh. Balan ◽  
Vasile Sandru ◽  
Paul Dan Sirbu

Complex interactions between stem cells, vascular cells and fibroblasts represent the substrate of building microenvironment-embedded 3D structures that can be grafted or added to bone substitute scaffolds in tissue engineering or clinical bone repair. Human Adipose-derived Stem Cells (hASCs), human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and normal dermal human fibroblasts (NDHF) can be mixed together in three dimensional scaffold free constructs and their behaviour will emphasize their potential use as seeding points in bone tissue engineering. Various combinations of the aforementioned cell lines were compared to single cell line culture in terms of size, viability and cell proliferation. At 5 weeks, viability dropped for single cell line spheroids while addition of NDHF to hASC maintained the viability at the same level at 5 weeks Fibroblasts addition to the 3D construct of stem cells and endothelial cells improves viability and reduces proliferation as a marker of cell differentiation toward osteogenic line.


Author(s):  
Minu Anoop ◽  
Indrani Datta

: Most conventional treatments for neurodegenerative diseases fail due to their focus on neuroprotection rather than neurorestoration. Stem cell‐based therapies are becoming a potential treatment option for neurodegenerative diseases as they can home in, engraft, differentiate and produce factors for CNS recovery. Stem cells derived from human dental pulp tissue differ from other sources of mesenchymal stem cells due to their embryonic neural crest origin and neurotrophic property. These include both dental pulp stem cells [DPSCs] from dental pulp tissues of human permanent teeth and stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth [SHED]. SHED offer many advantages over other types of MSCs such as good proliferative potential, minimal invasive procurement, neuronal differentiation and neurotrophic capacity, and negligible ethical concerns. The therapeutic potential of SHED is attributed to the paracrine action of extracellularly released secreted factors, specifically the secretome, of which exosomes is a key component. SHED and its conditioned media can be effective in neurodegeneration through multiple mechanisms, including cell replacement, paracrine effects, angiogenesis, synaptogenesis, immunomodulation, and apoptosis inhibition, and SHED exosomes offer an ideal refined bed-to-bench formulation in neurodegenerative disorders. However, in spite of these advantages, there are still some limitations of SHED exosome therapy, such as the effectiveness of long-term storage of SHED and their exosomes, the development of a robust GMP-grade manufacturing protocol, optimization of the route of administration, and evaluation of the efficacy and safety in humans. In this review, we have addressed the isolation, collection and properties of SHED along with its therapeutic potential on in vitro and in vivo neuronal disorder models as evident from the published literature.


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