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ArticleActa biochimica et biophysica Sinica2025

MSCs attenuate airway remodeling in HDM-induced asthma by inhibiting the Timp1-Wnt2b axis.

Kai Yu, Xinyu Feng, Rong Zhang, Jian Fan, Jiaying Yuan, Yan Shang, Jiayi Zhao

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Article in Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Kai YuDepartment of General Practice, Changhai Hospital, Naval Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Xinyu FengDepartment of General Practice, 411 Hospital, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200081, China.
Rong ZhangDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Naval Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Jian FanDepartment of General Practice, Changhai Hospital, Naval Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Jiaying YuanDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Naval Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Yan ShangDepartment of General Practice, Changhai Hospital, Naval Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Jiayi ZhaoDepartment of General Practice, 411 Hospital, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200081, China.

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Abstract

MSCs have demonstrated their unique therapeutic potential in early clinical trials for a variety of respiratory diseases in recent years, but their use in the treatment of asthma has rarely been reported. In this study, a chronic murine asthma model that is more similar to clinical asthma is constructed via sustained HDM induction for 70 days, followed by treatment via tail vein injection of MSCs after modeling. The mechanism by which MSCs alleviate airway remodeling is investigated via RNA-seq. The airways on the day following treatment are used to screen for transcriptomic changes resulting from the MSC treatment under study, filtering for differentially expressed genes (DEGs), identifying their enrichment pathways, and finally confirming the DEGs gained via western blot analysis. After HDM treatment, airway remodeling is reversed, asthma and the HIF-1 signaling pathway are inhibited, and the expression levels of Timp1 and Wnt2b in the fibrosis pathway are also significantly decreased. STRING analysis reveals a reciprocal interaction in their expression, which is also confirmed by western blot analysis. To verify whether MSCs alleviate airway remodeling by inhibiting Timp1, we construct MSCs overexpressing Timp1 and evaluate their effects

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Airway RemodelingAsthmaMesenchymal Stem CellsTissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1Wnt ProteinsAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalMaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CPyroglyphidaeSignal TransductionTimp1 protein, mouseTissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1Wnt Proteinsairway remodelingasthmaMSCTimp1Wnt2b

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PMCPMC12900743

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