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Date: | 2018 |
Abstract: | Mechanical conditioning is incompletely characterized for stimulating therapeutic cells within the physiological range. We sought to unravel the mechanism of action underlying mechanical conditioning of adipose tissue-derived progenitor cells (ATDPCs), both in vitro and in silico. Cardiac ATDPCs, grown on 3 different patterned surfaces, were mechanically stretched for 7 days at 1 Hz. A custom-designed, magnet-based, mechanical stimulator device was developed to apply ~10% mechanical stretching to monolayer cell cultures. Gene and protein analyses were performed for each cell type and condition. Cell supernatants were also collected to analyze secreted proteins and construct an artificial neural network. Gene and protein modulations were different for each surface pattern. After mechanostimulation, cardiac ATDPCs increased the expression of structural genes and there was a rising trend on cardiac transcription factors. Finally, secretome analyses revealed upregulation of proteins associated with both myocardial infarction and cardiac regeneration, such as regulators of the immune response, angiogenesis or cell adhesion. To conclude, mechanical conditioning of cardiac ATDPCs enhanced the expression of early and late cardiac genes in vitro. Additionally, in silico analyses of secreted proteins showed that mechanical stimulation of cardiac ATDPCs was highly associated with myocardial infarction and repair. |
Grants: | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad SAF2014-59892 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca SGR 2014 Instituto de Salud Carlos III RD12-0019-0029 Instituto de Salud Carlos III RD12-0042-0047 Instituto de Salud Carlos III FIS PI14-01682 |
Note: | Altres ajuts: This work was supported by grants from Fundació La Marató de TV3 (201516, 201502), Sociedad Española de Cardiología, Societat Catalana de Cardiologia, [...], and Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears. [...]. We also appreciate support from the Fundació Privada Daniel Bravo Andreu. Finally, we thank M. Pilar Armengol Barnils from the Microscopic and Genomic Unit of the IGTP, Marta López for her help in fluorescence quantification, and Laura Artigas, from Anaxomics, for her support in secretome analysis. |
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Language: | Anglès |
Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Subject: | Adipose tissue ; Cells, Cultured ; Humans ; MEF2 Transcription factors ; Myocardium ; Stem cells ; Stress, Mechanical ; Transcription factors |
Published in: | Scientific reports, Vol. 8 (january 2018) , ISSN 2045-2322 |
Related work: | Llucià-Valldeperas, Aida; Bragos, Ramon; Soler-Botija, Carolina; [et al.]. «Author Correction: Unravelling the effects of mechanical physiological conditioning on cardiac adipose tissue-derived progenitor cells in vitro and in silico». Scientific reports, Vol. 8 (april 2018), p.1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24808-y |
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