ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2012
In vivo cardiac cellular reprogramming efficacy is enhanced by angiogenic preconditioning of the infarcted myocardium with vascular endothelial growth factor.
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- Cardiac Regeneration: New Insights Into the Frontier of Ischemic Heart Failure Therapy.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Pooled it
- Harnessing Lessons from Gel-Based and Advanced Biomaterial Therapeutics to Enable Direct Cellular Reprogramming.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Administration of a novel reprogramming formula improves cardiac function and decreases cardiac fibrosis in a myocardial infarction model.JTCVS open · 2025Article
- In Vivo Targeted Reprogramming of Cardiac Fibroblasts for Heart Regeneration: Advances and Therapeutic Potential.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Advances in fibroblast-based cardiac reprogramming in the treatment of heart disease.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025Review
- Direct fibroblast reprogramming: an emerging strategy for treating organic fibrosis.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Review
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- Activation of a GPCR, ORL1 Receptor: A Novel Therapy to Prevent Heart Failure Progression.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024Article
- Activation of a GPCR, ORL1 receptor: A novel therapy to prevent heart failure progression.Research square · 2024Article
- Disparity of gene expression in coronary artery disease: insights from MEIS1, HIRA, and Myocardin.Molecular biology reports · 2024Article
- Vitamin C facilitates direct cardiac reprogramming by inhibiting reactive oxygen species.Stem cell research & therapy · 2024Article
- Fibroblast Reprogramming in Cardiac Repair.JACC. Basic to translational science · 2024Review
- Recent advances and future prospects in direct cardiac reprogramming.Nature cardiovascular research · 2023Review
- Direct cardiac reprogramming: A new technology for cardiac repair.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2023Review
- Adenoviral vectors for cardiovascular gene therapy applications: a clinical and industry perspective.Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2022Review
- Translational perspectives on cardiac reprogramming.Seminars in cell & developmental biology · 2022Review
- Hippo Pathway Effector Tead1 Induces Cardiac Fibroblast to Cardiomyocyte Reprogramming.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn situ cellular reprogramming offers the possibility of regenerating functional cardiomyocytes directly from scar fibroblasts, obviating the challenges of cell implantation. We hypothesized that pretreating scar with gene transfer of the angiogenic vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) would enhance the efficacy of this strategy. METHODS AND
resultsGata4, Mef2c, and Tbx5 (GMT) administration via lentiviral transduction was demonstrated to transdifferentiate rat fibroblasts into (induced) cardiomyocytes in vitro by cardiomyocyte marker studies. Fisher 344 rats underwent coronary ligation and intramyocardial administration of an adenovirus encoding all 3 major isoforms of VEGF (AdVEGF-All6A(+)) or an AdNull control vector (n=12/group). Lentivirus encoding GMT or a GFP control was administered to each animal 3 weeks later, followed by histologic and echocardiographic analyses. GMT administration reduced the extent of fibrosis by half compared with GFP controls (12 ± 2% vs 24 ± 3%, P<0.01) and reduced the number of myofibroblasts detected in the infarct zone by 4-fold. GMT-treated animals also demonstrated greater density of cardiomyocyte-specific marker beta myosin heavy chain 7(+) cells compared with animals receiving GFP with or without VEGF (P<0.01). Ejection fraction was significantly improved after GMT vs GFP administration (12 ± 3% vs -7 ± 3%, P<0.01). Eight (73%) GFP animals but no GMT animals demonstrated decreased ejection fraction during this interval (P<0.01). Also, improvement in ejection fraction was 4-fold greater in GMT/VEGF vs GMT/null animals (17 ± 2% vs 4 ± 1%, P<0.05).
conclusionsVEGF administration to infarcted myocardium enhances the efficacy of GMT-mediated cellular reprogramming in improving myocardial function and reducing the extent of myocardial fibrosis compared with the use of GMT or VEGF alone.
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