Journal
JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH
Volume 59, Issue 5, Pages 555-564Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jrr/rry048
Keywords
irradiation myocardial fibrosis; mesenchymal stromal cell; oxidative damage; NF-kappa B signaling pathway
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Recently, multipotent mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) treatment has attracted special attention as a new alternative strategy for stimulating regeneration. Irradiation myocardial fibrosis (IMF) is a major complication associated with total body irradiation for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, nuclear accidents, and thoracic radiotherapy for lung cancer, esophageal cancer, proximal gastric cancer, breast cancer, thymoma, and lymphoma. The aim of the present study was to assess the therapeutic paracrine effects of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (UC-MSCs) in the cell model of IMF. For this purpose, primary human cardiac fibroblasts (HCF) cells were irradiated and cultured with the conditioned medium of UC-MSCs (MSCCM). MSCCM promoted cell viability, reduced collagen deposition as measured by Sircol assay and qPCR (Col1A1 and Col1A2), prevented oxidative stress and increased antioxidant status (as measured by malondialdehyde content and the activities and mRNA levels of antioxidant enzymes), and reduced pro-fibrotic TGF-beta 1, IL-6 and IL-8 levels (as examined by ELISA kit and qPCR). Pretreatment with inhibitor of NF-kappa B led to a decrease in the levels of TGF-beta 1 in cell lysate of HCF cells by ELISA kit. Furthermore, we also found that MSCCM prevented NF-kappa B signaling pathway activation for its proinflammatory actions induced by irradiation. Taken together, our data suggest that MSCCM could reduce irradiation-induced TGF-beta 1 production through inhibition of the NF-kappa B signaling pathway. These data provide new insights into the functional actions of MSCCM on irradiation myocardial fibrosis.
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