ArticlePloS one2009
Bone marrow stem cells expressing keratinocyte growth factor via an inducible lentivirus protects against bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis.
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- Effectivity of mesenchymal stem cells for bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review and implication for clinical application.Stem cell research & therapy · 2021Pooled it
- Mesenchymal stem cell therapy in pulmonary fibrosis: a meta-analysis of preclinical studies.Stem cell research & therapy · 2021Pooled it
- Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Animal Bleomycin Pulmonary Fibrosis Models: A Systematic Review.Stem cells translational medicine · 2015Pooled it
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- Boosting therapeutic efficacy of mesenchymal stem cells in pulmonary fibrosis: The role of genetic modification and preconditioning strategies.Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2023Review
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- New perspectives in regenerative medicine and surgery: the bioactive composite therapies (BACTs).European journal of plastic surgery · 2022Article
- Sex and gender in interstitial lung diseases.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2021Article
- Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) and MSC-derived extracellular vesicles in COVID-19-induced ARDS: Mechanisms of action, research progress, challenges, and opportunities.International immunopharmacology · 2021Review
- Dissecting the Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Cause or Solution.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Review
- Regulatory Immune Cells in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Friends or Foes?Frontiers in immunology · 2021Review
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- Lung-resident mesenchymal stromal cells are tissue-specific regulators of lung homeostasis.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Many common diseases of the gas exchange surface of the lung have no specific treatment but cause serious morbidity and mortality. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by alveolar epithelial cell injury, interstitial inflammation, fibroblast proliferation and collagen accumulation within the lung parenchyma. Keratinocyte Growth Factor (KGF, also known as FGF-7) is a critical mediator of pulmonary epithelial repair through stimulation of epithelial cell proliferation. During repair, the lung not only uses resident cells after injury but also recruits circulating bone marrow-derived cells (BMDC). Several groups have used Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) as therapeutic vectors, but little is known about the potential of Hematopoietic Stem cells (HSCs). Using an inducible lentiviral vector (Tet-On) expressing KGF, we were able to efficiently transduce both MSCs and HSCs, and demonstrated that KGF expression is induced in a regulated manner both in vitro and in vivo. We used the in vivo bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis model to assess the potential therapeutic effect of MSCs and HSCs. While both populations reduced the collagen accumulation associated with bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis, only transplantation of transduced HSCs greatly attenuated the histological damage. Using double immunohistochemistry, we show that the reduced lung damage likely occurs through endogenous type II pneumocyte proliferation induced by KGF. Taken together, our data indicates that bone marrow transplantation of lentivirus-transduced HSCs can attenuate lung damage, and shows for the first time the potential of using an inducible Tet-On system for cell based gene therapy in the lung.
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