scholarly journals Heat shock pretreatment improves stem cell repair following ischemia-reperfusion injuryviaautophagy

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (45) ◽  
pp. 12822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng-Fei Qiao
Author(s):  
Chen Shimoni ◽  
Myah Goldstein ◽  
Ivana Ribarski-Chorev ◽  
Iftach Schauten ◽  
Dana Nir ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (15) ◽  
pp. 7946
Author(s):  
Chang Youn Lee ◽  
Seahyoung Lee ◽  
Seongtae Jeong ◽  
Jiyun Lee ◽  
Hyang-Hee Seo ◽  
...  

The acute demise of stem cells following transplantation significantly compromises the efficacy of stem cell-based cell therapeutics for infarcted hearts. As the stem cells transplanted into the damaged heart are readily exposed to the hostile environment, it can be assumed that the acute death of the transplanted stem cells is also inflicted by the same environmental cues that caused massive death of the host cardiac cells. Pyroptosis, a highly inflammatory form of programmed cell death, has been added to the list of important cell death mechanisms in the damaged heart. However, unlike the well-established cell death mechanisms such as necrosis or apoptosis, the exact role and significance of pyroptosis in the acute death of transplanted stem cells have not been explored in depth. In the present study, we found that M1 macrophages mediate the pyroptosis in the ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injured hearts and identified miRNA-762 as an important regulator of interleukin 1b production and subsequent pyroptosis. Delivery of exogenous miRNA-762 prior to transplantation significantly increased the post-transplant survival of stem cells and also significantly ameliorated cardiac fibrosis and heart functions following I/R injury. Our data strongly suggest that suppressing pyroptosis can be an effective adjuvant strategy to enhance the efficacy of stem cell-based therapeutics for diseased hearts.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sneha L. Koneru ◽  
Mark Hintze ◽  
Dimitris Katsanos ◽  
Michalis Barkoulas

AbstractA fundamental question in medical genetics is how the genetic background modifies the phenotypic outcome of mutations. We address this question by focusing on the seam cells, which display stem cell properties in the epidermis of Caenorhabditis elegans. We demonstrate that a putative null mutation in the GATA transcription factor egl-18, which is involved in seam cell fate maintenance, is more tolerated in the CB4856 isolate from Hawaii than the lab reference strain N2 from Bristol. We identify multiple quantitative trait loci (QTLs) underlying the difference in phenotype expressivity between the two isolates. These QTLs reveal cryptic genetic variation that reinforces seam cell fate through potentiating Wnt signalling. Within one QTL region, a single amino acid deletion in the heat shock protein HSP-110 in CB4856 is sufficient to modify Wnt signalling and seam cell development, highlighting that natural variation in conserved heat shock proteins can shape phenotype expressivity.


Hypertension ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 1541-1554
Author(s):  
Hongyun Wang ◽  
Rusitanmujiang Maimaitiaili ◽  
Jianhua Yao ◽  
Yuling Xie ◽  
Sujing Qiang ◽  
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Plasma circulating extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been utilized as a potential therapeutic strategy to treat ischemic disease through intramyocardial injection (efficient but invasive) or tail vein injection (noninvasive but low cardiac retention). An effective and noninvasive delivery of EVs for future clinical use is necessary. The large animal (canine) model was complemented with a murine ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) model, as well as H9 human embryonic stem cell–induced cardiomyocytes or neonatal rat cardiomyocytes to investigate the effective delivery method and the role of plasma EVs in the IRI model. We further determine the crucial molecule within EVs that confers the cardioprotective role in vivo and in vitro and investigate the efficiency of CHP (cardiac homing peptide)-linked EVs in alleviating IRI. D-SPECT imaging showed that percutaneous intracoronary delivery of EVs reduced infarct extent in dogs. CHP-EVs further reduced IRI-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis in mice and neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. Mechanistically, administration of EVs by percutaneous intracoronary delivery (in dog) and myocardial injection (in mice) just before reperfusion reduced infarct size of IRI by increasing miR-486 levels. miR-486–deleted EVs exacerbated oxygen-glucose deprivation/reoxygenation–induced human embryonic stem cell–induced cardiomyocytes and neonatal rat cardiomyocyte apoptosis. EV-miR-486 inhibited the PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten) expression and then promoted AKT (protein kinase B) activation in human embryonic stem cell–induced cardiomyocytes and neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. In conclusion, plasma-derived EVs convey miR-486 to the myocardium and attenuated IRI-induced infarction and cardiomyocyte apoptosis. CHP strategy was effective to improve cardiac retention of EVs in mice (in vivo) and dogs (ex vivo).


2001 ◽  
Vol 281 (3) ◽  
pp. H1346-H1352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karyn L. Hamilton ◽  
Scott K. Powers ◽  
Takao Sugiura ◽  
Sunjoo Kim ◽  
Shannon Lennon ◽  
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We examined the effects of 3 days of exercise in a cold environment on the expression of left ventricular (LV) heat shock proteins (HSPs) and contractile performance during in vivo ischemia-reperfusion (I/R). Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into the following three groups ( n = 12/group): 1) control, 2) exercise (60 min/day) at 4°C (E-Cold), and 3) exercise (60 min/day) at 25°C (E-Warm). Left anterior descending coronary occlusion was maintained for 20 min, followed by 30 min of reperfusion. Compared with the control group, both the E-Cold and E-Warm groups maintained higher ( P < 0.05) LV developed pressure, first derivative of pressure development over time (+dP/d t), and pressure relaxation over time (−dP/d t) throughout I/R. Relative levels of HSP90, HSP72, and HSP40 were higher ( P < 0.05) in E-Warm animals compared with both control and E-Cold. HSP10, HSP60, and HSP73 did not differ between groups. Exercise increased manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) activity in both E-Warm and E-Cold hearts ( P < 0.05). Protection against I/R-induced lipid peroxidation in the LV paralleled the increase in MnSOD activity whereas lower levels of lipid peroxidation were observed in both E-Warm and E-Cold groups compared with control. We conclude that exercise-induced myocardial protection against a moderate duration I/R insult is not dependent on increases in myocardial HSPs. We postulate that exercise-associated cardioprotection may depend, in part, on increases in myocardial antioxidant defenses.


2008 ◽  
Vol 199 (2) ◽  
pp. 467
Author(s):  
Yanhua Hu ◽  
Georgios Foteinos ◽  
Qingzhong Xiao ◽  
Qingbo Xu
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