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BASIC RESEARCH IN CARDIOLOGY
Volume 115, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-020-0785-3
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Exosomes; Foetal stem cells; Size-exclusion chromatography; Ischaemia-reperfusion injury; Angiogenesis; PI3K; Proteomics
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- British Heart Foundation [FS/15/70/32044]
- National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre [BRC233/CM/SD/101320]
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Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) exhibit antiapoptotic and proangiogenic functions in models of myocardial infarction which may be mediated by secreted small extracellular vesicles (sEVs). However, MSCs have frequently been harvested from aged or diseased patients, while the isolated sEVs often contain high levels of impurities. Here, we studied the cardioprotective and proangiogenic activities of size-exclusion chromatography-purified sEVs secreted from human foetal amniotic fluid stem cells (SS-hAFSCs), possessing superior functional potential to that of adult MSCs. We demonstrated for the first time that highly pure (up to 1.7 x 10(10) particles/mu g protein) and thoroughly characterised SS-hAFSC sEVs protect rat hearts from ischaemia-reperfusion injury in vivo when administered intravenously prior to reperfusion (38 +/- 9% infarct size reduction, p < 0.05). SS-hAFSC sEVs did not protect isolated primary cardiomyocytes in models of simulated ischaemia-reperfusion injury in vitro, indicative of indirect cardioprotective effects. SS-hAFSC sEVs were not proangiogenic in vitro, although they markedly stimulated endothelial cell migration. Additionally, sEVs were entirely responsible for the promigratory effects of the medium conditioned by SS-hAFSC. Mechanistically, sEV-induced chemotaxis involved phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) signalling, as its pharmacological inhibition in treated endothelial cells reduced migration by 54 +/- 7% (p < 0.001). Together, these data indicate that SS-hAFSC sEVs have multifactorial beneficial effects in a myocardial infarction setting.
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