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PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
Volume 139, Issue 3, Pages 695E-706EPublisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000003072
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- National Institutes of Health [R01-DK074095, R01-AG025016, R03-DK094521]
- Harrington Discovery Institute
- Hagey Family Endowed Fund in Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine
- Oak Foundation
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Background: A hallmark of diabetes mellitus is the breakdown of almost every reparative process in the human body, leading to critical impairments of wound healing. Stabilization and activity of the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1 alpha is impaired in diabetes, leading to deficits in new blood vessel formation in response to injury. In this article, the authors compare the effectiveness of two promising small-molecule therapeutics, the hydroxylase inhibitor dimethylox-alylglycine and the iron chelator deferoxamine, for attenuating diabetes-associated deficits in cutaneous wound healing by enhancing HIF-1 alpha activation. Methods: HIF-1 alpha stabilization, phosphorylation, and transactivation were measured in murine fibroblasts cultured under normoxic or hypoxic and low-glucose or high-glucose conditions following treatment with deferoxamine or dimethyloxalylglycine. In addition, diabetic wound healing and neovascularization were evaluated in db/db mice treated with topical solutions of either deferoxamine or dimethyloxalylglycine, and the efficacy of these molecules was also compared in aged mice. Results: The authors show that deferoxamine stabilizes HIF-1a expression and improves HIF-1 alpha transactivity in hypoxic and hyperglycemic states in vitro, whereas the effects of dimethyloxalylglycine are significantly blunted under hyperglycemic hypoxic conditions. In vivo, both dimethyloxalylglycine and deferoxamine enhance wound healing and vascularity in aged mice, but only deferoxamine universally augmented wound healing and neovascularization in the setting of both advanced age and diabetes. Conclusion: This first direct comparison of deferoxamine and dimethyloxalylglycine in the treatment of impaired wound healing suggests significant therapeutic potential for topical deferoxamine treatment in ischemic and diabetic disease.
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