Electrophysiological Parameters of the Heart in Pigs with Doxorubicin-Induced Myocardial Injury After Intracoronary Administration of Antlerogenic Stem Cell Homogenate

Author(s):  
Agnieszka Noszczyk- Nowak ◽  
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Józef Nicpoń ◽  
Urszula Pasławska ◽  
Robert Pasławski ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeniya Vaskova ◽  
Gentaro Ikeda ◽  
Yuko Tada ◽  
Christine Wahlquist ◽  
Marc Mercola ◽  
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Background Exosomes are small extracellular vesicles that function as intercellular messengers and effectors. Exosomal cargo contains regulatory small molecules, including mi RNA s, mRNA s, lnc RNA s, and small peptides that can be modulated by different pathological stimuli to the cells. One of the main mechanisms of action of drug therapy may be the altered production and/or content of the exosomes. Methods and Results We studied the effects on exosome production and content by neprilysin inhibitor/angiotensin receptor blockers, sacubitril/valsartan and valsartan alone, using human‐induced pluripotent stem cell‐derived cardiomyocytes under normoxic and hypoxic injury model in vitro , and assessed for physiologic correlation using an ischemic myocardial injury rodent model in vivo. We demonstrated that the treatment with sacubitril/valsartan and valsartan alone resulted in the increased production of exosomes by induced pluripotent stem cell‐derived cardiomyocytes in vitro in both conditions as well as in the rat plasma in vivo. Next‐generation sequencing of these exosomes exhibited downregulation of the expression of rno‐miR‐181a in the sacubitril/valsartan treatment group. In vivo studies employing chronic rodent myocardial injury model demonstrated that miR‐181a antagomir has a beneficial effect on cardiac function. Subsequently, immunohistochemical and molecular studies suggested that the downregulation of miR‐181a resulted in the attenuation of myocardial fibrosis and hypertrophy, restoring the injured rodent heart after myocardial infarction. Conclusions We demonstrate that an additional mechanism of action of the pleiotropic effects of sacubitril/valsartan may be mediated by the modulation of the mi RNA expression level in the exosome payload.


2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sapikowski Grzegorz ◽  
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Popiel Jarosław ◽  
Dzimira Stanisław ◽  
Szczepańska Patrycja ◽  
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Circulation ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 138 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Zhao ◽  
Yawen Tang ◽  
Wuqiang Zhu ◽  
Jianyi Zhang

Introduction: Stem-cell-based therapies provide promise for the treatment of ischemic myocardial injury, but the number of cells that remain engrafted at the site of administration is exceptionally low, which is believed to limit the effectiveness of treatment. In this study, we investigated whether the number of engrafted human induced-pluripotent stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) can be increased via overexpression of the cell-cycle activator cyclin D2 (CCND2) and if so, whether this increase is accompanied by improvements in myocardial recovery. Experiments were conducted in a large-animal (swine) model of myocardial injury. Methods and results: CCND2-overexpressing hiPSC-CMs (CCND2 OE CMs) were constructed via lentiviral transfection; then, myocardial infarction (MI) was surgically induced in swine, and the animals were randomly assigned to treatment with CCND2 OE CMs (i.e., the MI+CCND2 OE CM group), wild-type hiPSC-CMs (the MI+CCND2 WT CM group), or neither experimental treatment (the MI group); the cells were injected into five sites (6х10 6 cells/site) surrounding the infarct. Four weeks after MI, measurements of the heart-weight to bodyweight ratio (HW/BW), cardiac function (determined via magnetic resonance imaging), and vascularity (CD31 staining) were significantly better in MI+CCND2 OE CM animals than in the CCND2 WT CM group. HW/BW was also significantly lower in both cell-treatment groups than in MI animals, and CCND2 overexpression was associated with increases in both hiPSC-CM engraftment (mRNA levels) and cell-cycle activity (ki67 and phosphorylated histone 3 levels). Conclusion: Experiments in a large-animal MI model indicated that CCND2 overexpression in transplanted hiPSC-CMs was associated with increases in cell-cycle activity and the number of engrafted cells, as well as improvements in cardiac function, hypertrophy, and vascularity.


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