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Zhang C, Ma J, Zhang X, Zhou D, Cao Z, Qiao L, Chen G, Yang L, Ding BS. Processing of angiocrine alarmin IL-1α in endothelial cells promotes lung and liver fibrosis. Int Immunopharmacol 2024; 134:112176. [PMID: 38723369 DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2024.112176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2024] [Revised: 04/21/2024] [Accepted: 04/27/2024] [Indexed: 06/03/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Fibrosis results from excessive scar formation after tissue injury. Injured cells release alarmins such as interleukin 1 (IL-1) α and β as primary mediators initiating tissue repair. However, how alarmins from different cell types differentially regulate fibrosis remains to be explored. METHODS Here, we used tissue specific knockout strategy to illustrate a unique contribution of endothelial cell-derived IL-1α to lung and liver fibrosis. The two fibrotic animal model triggered by bleomycin and CCl4 were used to study the effects of endothelial paracrine/angiocrine IL-1α in fibrotic progression. Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) were performed to explore the production of angiocrine IL-1α at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels in vitro. RESULTS We found that endothelial paracrine/angiocrine IL-1α primarily promotes lung and liver fibrosis during the early phase of organ repair. By contrast, myeloid cell-specific ablation of IL-1α in mice resulted in little influence on fibrosis, suggesting the specific pro-fibrotic role of IL-1α from endothelial cell but not macrophage. In vitro study revealed a coordinated regulation of IL-1α production in human primary endothelial cells at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. Specifically, the transcription of IL-1α is regulated by RIPK1, and after caspase-8 (CASP8) cleaves the precursor form of IL-1α, its secretion is triggered by ion channel Pannexin 1 upon CASP8 cleavage. CONCLUSIONS Endothelial cell-produced IL-1α plays a unique role in promoting organ fibrosis. Furthermore, the release of this angiocrine alarmin relies on a unique molecular mechanism involving RIPK1, CASP8, and ion channel Pannexin 1.
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- Chunxue Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China
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- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The Research Units of West China(2018RU012)-Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China.
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
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Seidlitz T, Koo BK, Stange DE. Gastric organoids-an in vitro model system for the study of gastric development and road to personalized medicine. Cell Death Differ 2021; 28:68-83. [PMID: 33223522 PMCID: PMC7852679 DOI: 10.1038/s41418-020-00662-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 10/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Gastric cancer ranks as the fifth most common human malignancy and the third leading cause of cancer related deaths. Depending on tumor stage, endoscopic or surgical resection supported by perioperative chemotherapy is the only curative option for patients. Due to late clinical manifestation and missing reliable biomarkers, early detection is challenging and overall survival remains poor. Organoids are cell aggregates cultured in three-dimensions that grow with similar characteristics as their tissue-of-origin. Due to their self-renewal and proliferative capacity, organoids can be maintained long term in culture and expanded in many cases in an unlimited fashion. Patient-derived organoid (PDO) libraries function as living biobanks, allowing the in depth analysis of tissue specific function, development and disease. The recent successful establishment of gastric cancer PDOs opens up new perspectives for multiple translational clinical applications. Here, we review different adult stem cell derived gastric organoid model systems and focus on their establishment, phenotypic and genotypic characterizations as well as their use in predicting therapy response.
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- Therese Seidlitz
- Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Dresden, Germany: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany.
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Menendez JA, Alarcón T. Senescence-Inflammatory Regulation of Reparative Cellular Reprogramming in Aging and Cancer. Front Cell Dev Biol 2017; 5:49. [PMID: 28529938 PMCID: PMC5418360 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2017.00049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2017] [Accepted: 04/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The inability of adult tissues to transitorily generate cells with functional stem cell-like properties is a major obstacle to tissue self-repair. Nuclear reprogramming-like phenomena that induce a transient acquisition of epigenetic plasticity and phenotype malleability may constitute a reparative route through which human tissues respond to injury, stress, and disease. However, tissue rejuvenation should involve not only the transient epigenetic reprogramming of differentiated cells, but also the committed re-acquisition of the original or alternative committed cell fate. Chronic or unrestrained epigenetic plasticity would drive aging phenotypes by impairing the repair or the replacement of damaged cells; such uncontrolled phenomena of in vivo reprogramming might also generate cancer-like cellular states. We herein propose that the ability of senescence-associated inflammatory signaling to regulate in vivo reprogramming cycles of tissue repair outlines a threshold model of aging and cancer. The degree of senescence/inflammation-associated deviation from the homeostatic state may delineate a type of thresholding algorithm distinguishing beneficial from deleterious effects of in vivo reprogramming. First, transient activation of NF-κB-related innate immunity and senescence-associated inflammatory components (e.g., IL-6) might facilitate reparative cellular reprogramming in response to acute inflammatory events. Second, para-inflammation switches might promote long-lasting but reversible refractoriness to reparative cellular reprogramming. Third, chronic senescence-associated inflammatory signaling might lock cells in highly plastic epigenetic states disabled for reparative differentiation. The consideration of a cellular reprogramming-centered view of epigenetic plasticity as a fundamental element of a tissue's capacity to undergo successful repair, aging degeneration or malignant transformation should provide challenging stochastic insights into the current deterministic genetic paradigm for most chronic diseases, thereby increasing the spectrum of therapeutic approaches for physiological aging and cancer.
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- Javier A Menendez
- Metabolism and Cancer Group, Program Against Cancer Therapeutic Resistance, Catalan Institute of OncologyGirona, Spain.,Molecular Oncology Group, Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI)Girona, Spain.,METABOSTEMBarcelona, Spain
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- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)Barcelona, Spain.,Computational and Mathematical Biology Research Group, Centre de Recerca MatemàticaBarcelona, Spain.,Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaBarcelona, Spain.,Barcelona Graduate School of MathematicsBarcelona, Spain
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Hiraoka T, Hirota Y, Saito-Fujita T, Matsuo M, Egashira M, Matsumoto L, Haraguchi H, Dey SK, Furukawa KS, Fujii T, Osuga Y. STAT3 accelerates uterine epithelial regeneration in a mouse model of decellularized uterine matrix transplantation. JCI Insight 2016; 1:87591. [PMID: 27358915 PMCID: PMC4922514 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.87591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2016] [Accepted: 04/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Although a close connection between uterine regeneration and successful pregnancy in both humans and mice has been consistently observed, its molecular basis remains unclear. We here established a mouse model of decellularized uterine matrix (DUM) transplantation. Resected mouse uteri were processed with SDS to make DUMs without any intact cells. DUMs were transplanted into the mouse uteri with artificially induced defects, and all the uterine layers were recovered at the DUM transplantation sites within a month. In the regenerated uteri, normal hormone responsiveness in early pregnancy was observed, suggesting the regeneration of functional uteri. Uterine epithelial cells rapidly migrated and formed a normal uterine epithelial layer within a week, indicating a robust epithelial-regenerating capacity. Stromal and myometrial regeneration occurred following epithelial regeneration. In ovariectomized mice, uterine regeneration of the DUM transplantation was similarly observed, suggesting that ovarian hormones are not essential for this regeneration process. Importantly, the regenerating epithelium around the DUM demonstrated heightened STAT3 phosphorylation and cell proliferation, which was suppressed in uteri of Stat3 conditional knockout mice. These data suggest a key role of STAT3 in the initial step of the uterine regeneration process. The DUM transplantation model is a powerful tool for uterine regeneration research.
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- Takehiro Hiraoka
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Precursory Research for Innovative Medical Care (PRIME), Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Reproductive Sciences, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Richmond CA, Shah MS, Carlone DL, Breault DT. Factors regulating quiescent stem cells: insights from the intestine and other self-renewing tissues. J Physiol 2016; 594:4805-13. [PMID: 26670741 DOI: 10.1113/jp271653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2015] [Accepted: 12/10/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Long-lived and self-renewing adult stem cells (SCs) are essential for homeostasis in a wide range of tissues and can include both rapidly cycling and quiescent (q)SC populations. Rapidly cycling SCs function principally during normal tissue maintenance and are highly sensitive to stress, whereas qSCs exit from their quiescent state in response to homeostatic imbalance and regenerative pressure. The regulatory mechanisms underlying the quiescent state include factors essential for cell cycle control, stress response and survival pathways, developmental signalling pathways, and post-transcriptional modulation. Here, we review these regulatory mechanisms citing observations from the intestine and other self-renewing tissues.
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Lamprecht S, Fich A. The cancer cells-of-origin in the gastrointestinal tract: progenitors revisited. Carcinogenesis 2015; 36:811-6. [PMID: 26116624 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgv095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2015] [Accepted: 06/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A prominent model of tumor progression posits that normal self-renewing and multipotent stem cells(SCs) are the initial target of transformation. This view has been robustly challenged by the recurring observation that transit-amplifying cells and differentiated progenitors can initiate neoplasia outside the SC zone thus qualifying as cancer cells-of-origin. The emerging concept is that a cancer SC and a cancer cell-of-origin are not necessarily the same cell. Importantly, progenitor cells were shown to possess remarkable plasticity and to revert, on demand, to a SC-like state. The present review revisits our early hypothesis that colonic progenitors acquiring a mutant adenomatous polyposis coli gene after exiting the stem zone may serve as genuine cancer cells-of-origin. New findings consonant with this view are examined, and tenable molecular and cellular mechanisms underpinning the plasticity of progenitor cells in the gastrointestinal tract and in other tissues are discussed. The translational impact of cell plasticity is addressed, and recommendations for future research are advanced.
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- Sergio Lamprecht
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology and Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka University Medical Center, Beersheva, Israel
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- Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka University Medical Center, Beersheva, Israel
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Wang X, Hsi TC, Guerrero-Juarez CF, Pham K, Cho K, McCusker CD, Monuki ES, Cho KWY, Gay DL, Plikus MV. Principles and mechanisms of regeneration in the mouse model for wound-induced hair follicle neogenesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 2:169-181. [PMID: 26504521 PMCID: PMC4617665 DOI: 10.1002/reg2.38] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
Wound‐induced hair follicle neogenesis (WIHN) describes a regenerative phenomenon in adult mammalian skin wherein fully functional hair follicles regenerate de novo in the center of large excisional wounds. Originally described in rats, rabbits, sheep, and humans in 1940−1960, the WIHN phenomenon was reinvestigated in mice only recently. The process of de novo hair regeneration largely duplicates the morphological and signaling features of normal embryonic hair development. Similar to hair development, WIHN critically depends on the activation of canonical WNT signaling. However, unlike hair development, WNT activation in WIHN is dependent on fibroblast growth factor 9 signaling generated by the immune system's γδ T cells. The cellular bases of WIHN remain to be fully characterized; however, the available evidence leaves open the possibility for a blastema‐like mechanism wherein epidermal and/or dermal wound cells undergo epigenetic reprogramming toward a more plastic, embryonic‐like state. De novo hair follicles do not regenerate from preexisting hair‐fated bulge stem cells. This suggests that hair neogenesis is not driven by preexisting lineage‐restricted progenitors, as is the case for amputation‐induced mouse digit tip regeneration, but rather may require a blastema‐like mechanism. The WIHN model is characterized by several intriguing features, which await further explanation. These include (1) the minimum wound size requirement for activating neogenesis, (2) the restriction of hair neogenesis to the wound's center, and (3) imperfect patterning outcomes, both in terms of neogenic hair positioning within the wound and in terms of their orientation. Future enquiries into the WIHN process, made possible by a wide array of available skin‐specific genetic tools, will undoubtedly expand our understanding of the regeneration mechanisms in adult mammals.
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- Xiaojie Wang
- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- UMR 967, Cellules Souches et Radiations, CEA - INSERM - Universités Paris 7 et Paris 11, CEA/DSV/IRCM/SCSR/LRTS, 92265 Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex, France
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA ; Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Chernaya O, Shinin V, Liu Y, Minshall RD. Behavioral heterogeneity of adult mouse lung epithelial progenitor cells. Stem Cells Dev 2014; 23:2744-57. [PMID: 24950291 DOI: 10.1089/scd.2013.0631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The existence and identity of multipotent stem cells in the adult lung is currently highly debated. At present, it remains unclear whether candidate stem/progenitor cells are located in the airways, alveoli, or throughout the epithelial lining of the lung. Here, we introduce a method of airway microdissection, which enabled us to study the progenitor behavior of pulmonary epithelial cells in region-specific contexts. The progenitor characteristics of epithelial cells isolated from the trachea, proximal and distal airways, and lung parenchyme were evaluated in vitro and in vivo. We identified a population of airway-derived basal-like epithelial cells with the potential to self-renew and differentiate into airway and alveolar lineages in culture and in vivo after subcutaneous transplantation. The multipotent candidate progenitors originated from a minor fraction of the airway epithelial cell population characterized by high expression of α6 integrin. Results of the current study provide new insights into the regenerative potential of region-specific integrin α6-positive pulmonary epithelial cells.
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- Olga Chernaya
- 1 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago, Illinois
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