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ArticleACS nano2023

Nanotopographical Cues Tune the Therapeutic Potential of Extracellular Vesicles for the Treatment of Aged Skeletal Muscle Injuries.

Kai Wang, Nolan Frey, Andres Garcia, Kun Man, Yong Yang, Alice Gualerzi, Zachary J Clemens, Marzia Bedoni, Philip R LeDuc, Fabrisia Ambrosio

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Article in ACS nano, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Cellular Senescence in Skeletal Muscle Aging.Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) · 2026
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  10. Microenvironmental Modulation for Therapeutic Efficacy of Extracellular Vesicles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  14. Mechanome-Guided Strategies in Regenerative Rehabilitation.Current opinion in biomedical engineering · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Kai WangDiscovery Center for Musculoskeletal Recovery, Schoen Adams Research Institute at Spaulding, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8447-6177
Nolan FreyDepartment of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.
Andres GarciaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4822-202X
Kun ManDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76207, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3764-3312
Yong YangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76207, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4305-8029
Alice GualerziIRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan 20148, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2996-5714
Zachary J ClemensDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.
Marzia BedoniIRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan 20148, Italy.
Philip R LeDucDepartment of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.
Fabrisia AmbrosioDiscovery Center for Musculoskeletal Recovery, Schoen Adams Research Institute at Spaulding, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, United States.

Funding

Physical exercise and Blood-brain communication: exosomes, Klotho and choroid plexusR01AG066198 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI AMBROSIO, FABRISIA, KOLDAMOVA, RADOSVETA · 2020 to 2024
$3.8M
Role of extracellular matrix in age-related declines of muscle regenerationR01AG061005 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI AMBROSIO, FABRISIA, LEDUC, PHILIP R · 2019 to 2023
$2.5M
The Anti-Aging Role of Klotho in Skeletal Muscle RegenerationR01AG052978 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI AMBROSIO, FABRISIA · 2017 to 2020
$2.0M
Request for a Nikon A1 confocal microscopeS10OD019973 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WATKINS, SIMON C · 2015 to 2015
$358k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG052978NIA NIH HHS R01 AG061005NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066198NIH HHS S10 OD019973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skeletal muscle regeneration relies on the tightly temporally regulated lineage progression of muscle stem/progenitor cells (MPCs) from activation to proliferation and, finally, differentiation. However, with aging, MPC lineage progression is disrupted and delayed, ultimately causing impaired muscle regeneration. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have attracted broad attention as next-generation therapeutics for promoting tissue regeneration. As a next step toward clinical translation, strategies to manipulate EV effects on downstream cellular targets are needed. Here, we developed an engineering strategy to tune the therapeutic potential of EVs using nanotopographical cues. We found that EVs released by young MPCs cultured on flat substrates (fEVs) promoted the proliferation of aged MPCs while EVs released by MPCs cultured on nanogratings (nEVs) promoted myogenic differentiation. We then employed a bioengineered 3D muscle aging model to optimize the administration protocol and test the therapeutic potential of fEVs and nEVs in a high-throughput manner. We found that the sequential administration first of fEVs during the phase of MPC proliferative expansion (i.e., 1 day after injury) followed by nEV administration at the stage of MPC differentiation (i.e., 3 days after injury) enhanced aged muscle regeneration to a significantly greater extent than fEVs and nEVs delivered either in isolation or mixed. The beneficial effects of the sequential EV treatment strategy were further validated

Indexed as

CuesExtracellular VesiclesCell DifferentiationCells, CulturedMuscle, Skeletalagingcell-free therapyexosomesnanotopographyskeletal muscle repair

Identifiers

PMID37797946
PMCPMC10603813

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