Journal
WOUND REPAIR AND REGENERATION
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 98-103Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/wrr.12253
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- Family Erlling- Persson Foundation
- Stockholm County Research Council
- ALF fund
- Bert von Kantzows Foundation
- Swedish Society of Medicine
- Fredrik och Ingrid Turings Foundation
- Ake Wiberg Foundation
- Tore Nilssons Foundation
- Research Board of Karolinska Institutet
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL116899] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy has been used as an adjunctive therapy for diabetic foot ulcers, although its mechanism of action is not completely understood. Recently, it has been shown that HBO mobilizes the endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) from bone marrow that eventually will aggregate in the wound. However, the gathering of the EPCs in diabetic wounds is impaired because of the decreased levels of local stromal-derived factor-1 alpha (SDF-1 alpha). Therefore, we investigated the influence of HBO on hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1), which is a central regulator of SDF-1 alpha and is down-regulated in diabetic wounds. The effects of HBO on HIF-1 alpha function were studied in human dermal fibroblasts, SKRC7 cells, and HIF-1 alpha knockout and wild-type mouse embryonic fibroblasts using appropriate techniques (Western blot, quantitative polymerase chain reaction, and luciferase hypoxia-responsive element reporter assay). Cellular proliferation was assessed using H-3-thymidine incorporation assay. The effect of HIF in combination with HBOT was tested by inoculating stable HIF-1 alpha-expressing adenovirus (Adv-HIF) into experimental wounds in db/db mice exposed to HBO. HBO activates HIF-1 alpha at several levels by increasing both HIF-1 alpha stability (by a non-canonical mechanism) and activity (as shown both by induction of relevant target genes and by a specific reporter assay). HIF-1 alpha induction has important biological relevance because the induction of fibroblast proliferation in HBO disappears when HIF-1 alpha is knocked down. Moreover, the local transfer of stable HIF-1 alpha-expressing adenovirus (Adv-HIF) into experimental wounds in diabetic (db/db mice) animals has an additive effect on HBO-mediated improvements in wound healing. In conclusion, HBO stabilizes and activates HIF-1, which contributes to increased cellular proliferation. In diabetic animals, the local transfer of active HIF further improves the effects of HBO on wound healing.
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