基质细胞衍生因子1对骨髓间充质干细胞迁移及皮肤创伤修复的影响

背景：基质细胞衍生因子1对骨髓间充质干细胞具有强烈的趋化作用,且基质细胞衍生因子1与骨髓间充质干细胞均能促进组织创伤愈合,然而有关两者与皮肤创伤愈合的研究文献报道较少。 目的：观察基质细胞衍生因子1在皮肤创伤修复过程中对骨髓间充质干细胞定向迁移及皮肤创面愈合的影响。 方法：选取30只SD大鼠随机分为5组,各组大鼠尾静脉注射PKH26标记的骨髓间充质干细胞,注射1周后于背部制作皮肤创伤模型,造模后于皮肤创伤处多点注射不同质量浓度的基质细胞衍生因子1(1,2,10,50 μg/L)。注射14 d后观察并记录大鼠皮肤愈合情况,免疫荧光染色观察创面组织骨髓间充质干细胞数量、分布情况,苏木精-伊红染色观察创面组织病理变化,Western blot检测创面组织Ⅰ型胶原及Ⅲ型胶原蛋白表达情况。 结果与结论：当基质细胞衍生因子1质量浓度为10 μg/L时,骨髓间充质干细胞在皮肤创面的数量最多,创伤修复效果最好。同样基质细胞衍生因子1能够调节Ⅰ型胶原及Ⅲ型胶原在创面的表达,基质细胞衍生因子1质量浓度为10 μg/L时,Ⅰ型胶原及Ⅲ型胶原表达最高。结果表明适宜质量浓度的基质细胞衍生因子1 (10 μg/L)能够更好地促进骨髓间充质干细胞迁移,从而促进皮肤创伤愈合。中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点：干细胞;骨髓干细胞;造血干细胞;脂肪干细胞;肿瘤干细胞;胚胎干细胞;脐带脐血干细胞;干细胞诱导;干细胞分化;组织工程全文链接：     

Contribution of bone marrow-derived cells to skin: collagen deposition and wound repair

The bone marrow provides inflammatory cells and endothelial progenitor cells to healing cutaneous wounds. To further explore the bone marrow contribution to skin and healing wounds, we used a chimeric mouse model in which the bone marrow from enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) transgenic mice is transplanted into normal C57BL mice. We found that normal skin is a target organ for bone marrow-derived cells from both the hematopoietic and the mesenchymal stem cell pool. We present evidence that the bone marrow contribution to normal skin and the healing cutaneous wound is substantially greater than the previously recognized CD45+ subpopulation, where 15%-20% of the spindle-shaped dermal fibroblasts were bone marrow-derived (EGFP+). Furthermore, the bone marrow-derived cells were able to contract a collagen matrix and transcribe both collagen types I and III, whereas the skin-resident cells transcribed only collagen type I. Whereas endothelial progenitor cells were found early during the wound repair process, bone marrow-derived endothelial cells were not seen after epithelialization was complete. Our data show that wound healing involves local cutaneous cells for reconstituting the epidermis but distant bone marrow-derived cells and the adjacent uninjured dermal mesenchymal cells for reconstituting the dermal fibroblast population.     

Retinoic acid increases the cellular cholesterol predominantly in a mTOR-independent manner

Retinoic acid (RA) plays a role in the mounting immune response and controls several functions of the human body, including cholesterol homeostasis. The synthesis, uptake, and efflux of cellular cholesterol are significantly linked to the mammalian target of rapamycin complex-1 (mTORC1). Activation of mTORC1 promotes the synthesis and uptake of the cholesterol and suppresses its efflux, thus causing accumulation of cellular cholesterol. It is intriguing to know the effect of a high dose of RA on cholesterol accumulation in macrophages (mφ) and whether it is via mTOR activation. It is important to note that the long-term treatment of RA in humans is safe. Therefore, we chose a high dose of RA to observe its effect, which may be implicated in diseases like visceral leishmaniasis, where cholesterol deficiency is established. In the present study, we found the increased expression of RAPTOR, a regulatory component of the mTORC1 complex, in mφ upon treatment with RA. We observed the increased expression of SREBP2, LDLR, and PCSK9 in RA-treated mφ under sufficient cholesterol conditions, which further increased cellular cholesterol levels. Notably, their expressions were decreased when the mTOR pathway was inhibited by rapamycin. However, treatment with rapamycin did not result in the loss of cellular cholesterol in RA-treated mφ. Comparison with rapamycin-treated mφ suggests that RA induces cellular cholesterol levels in a mTORC1-independent manner.

     

P物质对表皮细胞聚集、分化控制及在皮肤创伤修复中的应用

BACKGROUND: Epidermal stem cells are the source of cells for repairing the skin and its appendages. To study differentiation and migration of epidermal stem cells is crucial for perfect healing. Objective: To investigate the effects of substance P in skin wound repair. METHODS: Thirty Wistar rats were randomized into groups of substance P, capsaicin and control (n=10 per group). After the establishment of skin defect models, exogenous neuropeptide substance P, capsaicin, and normal saline were daily injected at the wound for continuous 5 days. Skin thickness, skin wound area, BrdU-positive cells were detected in the three groups at different time after injection. Results and conclusions: No difference n the skin thickness was found in the three groups at 14 days after injection (P > 0.05), but with time, the epidermal thickness was reduced. At 42 days, the epidermal thickness was reduced remarkably in the substance P group and decreased certainly in the capsaicin group, but unchanged in the control group. The wound area of the substance P group was significantly lower than that in the control and capsaicin groups at 3, 5, 7 days after injection (P < 0.05), but there was no difference between the control and capsaicin group (P > 0.05). The BrdU positive rates in the three groups were significantly different at 3, 5, 7, 12 days after injection: the substance P group > the control group > the capsaicin group (P < 0.05). These results show that substance P can promote epidermal cell proliferation and accelerate wound healing.      

Diverse and potent activities of HGF/SF in skin wound repair

Genetic studies in the mouse have highlighted essential roles for several growth factors in skin repair and have offered a rationale for their use in therapy. The present study shows that the plasminogen-related growth factor HGF/SF (hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor) promotes wound repair in homozygous diabetic db/db mice by recruiting neutrophils, monocytes, and mast cells to the wound; by promoting the migration of endothelial cells to the injured area; and by enhancing keratinocyte migration and proliferation. As a result, granulation tissue formation, wound angiogenesis, and re-epithelialization are all increased. The results demonstrate that HGF/SF affects and sustains all key cellular processes responsible for wound repair and point to a unique potential of this molecule for the therapy of chronic skin wounds.     

Mycobacterial antigens induce apoptosis in human purified protein derivative-specific alphabeta T lymphocytes in a concentration-dependent manner

The morbidity and lethality of tuberculosis is partially the result of an ineffective delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction which causes caseating granulomas in the lung and other organs. Recently we showed that during caseation besides macrophages numerous Fas+ FasL+ lymphocytes undergo apoptosis and postulated that this phenomenon may be due to activation-induced cell death (AICD) as a consequence of T-lymphocyte reactivation via bacillary antigens. As purified protein derivative of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb-PPD) provokes caseation in tuberculosis patients, the question arose as to whether bacillary antigens are responsible for AICD within caseous areas. In the present study Mtb-PPD-specific T helper 1 (Th1)-differentiated T lymphocytes were generated in vitro. Reactivation of these cells with Mtb-PPD resulted in a concentration-dependent hyporesponsiveness, which was due to an increase in apoptosis of gammadelta+, alphabeta+ CD4+ as well as alphabeta+ CD8+ T lymphocytes as assessed by the demonstration of the apoptosis-associated mitochondrial membrane protein 7A6 and DNA fragmentation. Blocking experiments demonstrated that Mtb-PPD antigens exploited the Fas/FasL system to induce apoptosis in Mtb-PPD-specific T lymphocytes. These results may support the hypothesis that in tubercle granulomas with caseation T lymphocytes undergo AICD following reactivation by bacillary antigens, thus contributing to the persistence of tuberculosis.     

表皮干细胞在组织工程创面修复中的应用

背景：随着细胞生物学、分子生物学技术、组织工程学的快速发展,探寻组织工程化皮肤创面覆盖物的“种子细胞”的研究逐渐增多。 目的：总结表皮干细胞的生物学特性,探讨其在皮肤创面修复过程中的再生作用与临床应用价值。 方法：应用计算机检索CNKI和PubMed数据库中2002-07/2011-12关于表皮干细胞修复皮肤损伤研究的文章,以“表皮干细胞,创面修复,组织工程,皮肤”或“epidermal stem cells,tissue engineering skin,wound surface”为检索词进行检索。选择文章内容与表皮干细胞修复皮肤损伤研究进展有关的文章,同一领域文献则选择近期发表或发表在权威杂志文章。初检得到129篇文献,根据纳入标准选择28篇文献进行综合分析。 结果与结论：表皮干细胞是表皮发生、分化和创面修复的基础,其正常增殖分化是维持皮肤正常组织结构和细胞内环境稳定的基本要求,也是皮肤组织工程理想的种子细胞。对烧伤、创伤等大面积皮肤缺损的治疗,对皮肤疾病的细胞疗法、基因治疗等方面都有很好的应用前景。表皮细胞的体外培养是复合人工皮肤组织工程学研究的先决条件。随着对表皮干细胞分离、纯化和培养技术的不断完善,可达到迅速构建表皮层的目的。但表皮干细胞的应用研究仍需要进一步的探索。     

Semaphorin controls epidermal morphogenesis by stimulating mRNA translation via eIF2alpha in Caenorhabditis elegans

Conserved semaphorin-plexin signaling systems govern various aspects of animal development, including axonal guidance in vertebrates and epidermal morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Here we provide in vivo evidence that stimulation of mRNA translation via eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha (eIF2alpha) is an essential downstream event of semaphorin signaling in C. elegans. In semaphorin/plexin mutants, a marked elevation in the phosphorylation of eIF2alpha is observed, which causes translation repression and is causally related to the morphological epidermal phenotype in the mutants. Conversely, removal of constraints on translation by genetically reducing the eIF2alpha phosphorylation largely bypasses requirement for the semaphorin signal in epidermal morphogenesis. We also identify an actin-depolymerizing factor/cofilin, whose expression in the mutants is predominantly repressed, as a major translational target of semaphorin signaling. Thus, our results reveal a physiological significance for translation of mRNAs for cytoskeletal regulators, linking environmental cues to cytoskeletal rearrangement during cellular morphogenesis in vivo.     

IQGAP1 promotes cell proliferation and is involved in a phosphorylation-dependent manner in wound closure of bronchial epithelial cells

The re-epithelialization process of the airway involves spreading and migration followed by cell proliferation. Scaffold IQ domain GTPase-activating protein (IQGAP1), an effector of Rho GTPases, is a key component in a series of cell processes, although its exact mechanism in injury and repair of the airway is still unclear. In this study, we utilized a widely used model in vitro by scratching bronchial epithelial cells (BECs). At different time points after scratching, the amounts of IQGAP1 in mRNA and protein were greater than that in the control. PKCepsilon-mediated phosphorylation of IQGAP1 was involved in the process of injury and repair. The overexpression of PKCepsilon or treatment with phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (the PKC activator) promoted wound closure. On the contrary, the group treated with GF109203X (the PKC inhibitor) had the opposite effect. Scratching or overexpression of IQGAP1 induced increasing amounts of total beta-catenin and the transposition of beta-catenin from the cytoplasm into the nucleus. These results activated the T cell factor/lymphoid enhanced factor and induced expression levels of its target genes of c-myc and cyclin D1. The reduction of IQGAP1 by the transfection of small interference RNA of IQGAP1 attenuated these effects and directly impaired the scratching-induced wound closure. Taken together, our results suggest that IQGAP1 promotes cell proliferation and phosphorylation of IQGAP1 is involved in the process of wound closure in BECs.     

Discriminating expression of differentiation markers evolves in transplants of benign and malignant human skin keratinocytes through stromal interactions

Accumulating evidence indicates a decisive role for the adjacent stroma in tumour growth and dissemination. However, it is not clear how far altered differentiation such as expression of aberrant keratins and vimentin, common in invasive human carcinomas, may reflect intrinsic cell properties or a response to the tumour environment. We have addressed this by transplanting benign and malignant human HaCaT-ras keratinocytes, seeded on collagen matrix, onto nude mice. Initially, epithelia derived from benign and malignant cells, being separated from host stroma by collagen, were poorly organized and exhibited the same differentiation markers, as identified by immunofluorescence and in situ hybridization. Epidermal basal and suprabasal keratins were expressed persistently even upon contact with newly formed stroma and malignant cell invasion. In contrast, non-epidermal keratins (K4/K13, K8/18, K19), which were similarly synthesized by benign and malignant cells in culture and in early transplants, were differentially regulated with increasing stromal vicinity. While both proteins and mRNAs were downregulated in benign epithelia, the malignant, invasive tumour cells continuously expressed these non-epidermal keratins throughout (K19), suprabasally (K4/13) or at invasive sites (K8/18). Furthermore, the mesenchymal protein vimentin was expressed de novo in invasive areas confronting tumour stroma. Thus, atypical tissue markers, similarly synthesized in isolated cells in vitro, are downregulated in benign but maintained and upregulated in malignant epithelia. This is presumably caused by the neighbouring stroma being permanently activated by malignant epithelia.     

Sequential pattern formation in a model for skin morphogenesis

During morphogenesis regular patterns often develop behind afrontier of pattern formation which travels across the prospectivetissue. Here the authors consider the propagating patterns exhibitedin a two-dimensional domain by a tissue interaction mechanochemicalmodel for skin pattern formation. It is shown that the modelcan exhibit travelling waves of complex spatial pattern formation.Two alternative mechanisms that can produce such sequentialpatterning are presented. In particular, it is demonstratedthat the specification of a simple quasi-one-dimensional patternis all that is required to determine a complex two-dimensionalpattern. Finally, the model solutions are related to actualpattern propagation during chick feather primordia initiation.     

CD34-positive stromal cells and alpha-smooth muscle actin-positive stromal cells in the tumor capsule of skin sweat gland neoplasms

To elucidate the roles of CD34-positive stromal cells and alpha-smooth muscle actin-positive stromal cells at the tumor border of skin sweat gland neoplasms, we examined expression of stromal cell markers in the tumor capsule of 19 skin sweat gland neoplasms (16 mixed tumors of the skin and three nodular hidradenomas) using monoclonal antibodies to CD34, CD31, cytokeratin 14 (CK14), alpha-smooth muscle actin (ASMA) and high molecular weight caldesmon (HCD). We regarded CD34-positive, CD31-, CK14-, ASMA- and HCD-negative stromal cells to be CD34-positive stromal cells, and ASMA-positive, HCD-, CK14-, CD34- and CD31-negative stromal cells to be ASMA-positive stromal cells. CD34-positive stromal cells were detected in the tumor capsule of all 19 of the tumors examined. In nine of the 16 mixed tumors (56%) and all of the three nodular hidradenomas, ASMA-positive stromal cells were detected at the immediate inner side of the CD34-positive stromal cell layers. These results indicate that cellular components in the tumor capsules of mixed tumors of the skin and nodular hidradenomas are CD34-positive stromal cells and ASMA-positive stromal cells, and suggest that stromal cells of these two cell types are associated with tumor capsule formation of skin sweat gland neoplasms.     

L-22 enhances the invasiveness of endometrial stromal cells of adenomyosis in an autocrine manner

It has reported that interleukin-22 (IL-22) promotes the invasion of tumor cells. IL-22 in the endometriotic milieu stimulates the proliferation of human endometrial stromal cells (ESCs). The present study aimed to elucidate whether and how IL-22 regulates the invasion of ESCs from adenomyosis. The expression of IL-22 and its receptors in normal endometrium, eutopic endometrium and ectopic lesion was analyzed by immunohistochemistry; the invasiveness of ESCs in vitro was verified by Matrigel invasion assay; and the effects of IL-22 on the correspondent functional molecules were investigated by ELISA and flow cytometry. Here we found that IL-22 and its receptors IL-22R1 and IL-10R2 in eutopic endometrium and ectopic lesion of adenomyosis were significantly higher than that of normal endometrium. Recombinant human IL-22 (rhIL-22) increased IL-22R1 and IL-10R2 levels on ESCs. Moreover, rhIL-22 promoted the invasiveness of ESCs, and inhibited the expression of metastasis suppressor gene CD82, stimulated the secretion of IL-8, RANTES, IL-6 and VEGF of ESCs. On the contrary, the neutralizing antibody for IL-22 reversed these effects. Our current study has demonstrated that IL-22 has a positive feedback on the expression of its receptors IL-22R1 and IL-10R2 on ESCs. This autocrine effect of IL-22 promotes the invasion of ESCs possibly through regulating invasion-related molecules, suggesting that the abnormal high expression of IL-22 may play an important role in ESCs invasion and finally contribute to the origin and development of adenomyosis.     

Nimodipine increases excitability of rabbit CA1 pyramidal neurons in an age- and concentration-dependent manner.

1. Cellular properties were studied before and after bath application of the dihydropyridine L-type calcium channel antagonist nimodipine in aging and young rabbit hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells in vitro. Various concentrations of nimodipine, ranging from 10 nM to 10 microM, were tested to investigate age- and concentration-dependent effects on cellular excitability. Drug studies were performed on a population of neurons at similar holding potentials to equate voltage-dependent effects. The properties studied under current-clamp conditions included steady-state current-voltage relations (I-V), the amplitude and integrated area of the postburst afterhyperpolarization (AHP), accommodation to a prolonged depolarizing current pulse (spike frequency adaptation), and single action-potential waveform characteristics following synaptic activation. 2. Numerous aging-related differences in cellular properties were noted. Aging hippocampal CA1 neurons exhibited significantly larger postburst AHPs (both the amplitude and the integrated area were enhanced). Aging CA1 neurons also exhibited more hyperpolarized resting membrane potentials with a concomitant decrease in input resistance. When cells were grouped to equate resting potentials, no differences in input resistance were noted, but the AHPs were still significantly larger in aging neurons. Aging CA1 neurons also fired fewer action potentials during a prolonged depolarizing current injection than young CA1 neurons. 3. Nimodipine decreased both the peak amplitude and the integrated area of the AHP in an age- and concentration-dependent manner. At concentrations as low as 100 nM, nimodipine significantly reduced the AHP in aging CA1 neurons. In young CA1 neurons, nimodipine decreased the AHP only at 10 microM. No effects on input resistance or action-potential characteristics were seen. 4. Nimodipine increased excitability in an age- and concentration-dependent manner by decreasing spike frequency accommodation (increasing the number of action potentials during prolonged depolarizing current injection). In aging CA1 neurons, this effect was significant at concentrations as low as 10 nM. In young CA1 neurons, nimodipine decreased accommodation only at higher concentrations (> or = 1.0 microM). 5. We conclude that aging CA1 neurons were less excitable than young neurons. In aging hippocampus, nimodipine restores excitability, as measured by size of the AHP and degree of accommodation, to levels closely resembling those of young adult CA1 neurons. These actions of nimodipine on aging CA1 hippocampal neurons may partly underlie the drug's notable ability to improve associative learning in aging rabbits and other mammals. Reversal of inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) by chloride ion and/or current injections into six motoneurons revealed the presence of inhibition during the period between phrenic bursts during fictive vomiting and also during the final phase of expulsion when phrenic discharge ceased by abdominal discharge continued. 3. Fictive coughing, evoked by repetitive electrical stimulation of superior laryngeal nerve afferents, was characterized by a large phrenic discharge followed immediately by a large abdominal nerve discharge. During fictive coughing, phrenic motoneurons retained their ramplike depolarizations throughout phrenic discharge; however, the amplitude of depolarization was greater than during inspiration. During the subsequent abdominal nerve discharge, the phrenic membrane potential usually underwent an initial rapid, transient hyperpolarization followed by a gradual repolarization associated with increased synaptic noise.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)