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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 306, Issue 1, Pages 285-297Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2005.02.019
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human stomach; epithelial restitution; cell migration; cell spreading; ulcer healing
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While several autocrine/paracrine growth factors (GFs) can all stimulate epithelial regeneration in experimentally wounded primary gastric cultures, clinical relevance for their non-redundant cooperative actions in human gastric ulcer healing is suggested by the sequential pattern of GF gene induction in vivo. Using new HGE cell lines able to form a coherent monolayer with tight junctions as well as using primary human gastric epithelial cultures, we show that EGF, TGR alpha, HGF and IGFs accelerate epithelial restitution upon wounding, independently of the TGF beta pathway (as opposed to intestinal cells). However, they differently modulate cell behavior: TGF alpha exerts strong effects (even more than EGF) on cytoplasmic spreading and non-oriented protruding activity of bordering cells whereas HGF preferentially coordinates single lamella formation, cell elongation and migration into the wound. IGF-I and IGF-II rather induce the alignment of bordering cells and maintain a compact monolayer front. The number of mitotic cells maximally increases with EGF, followed by TGF alpha and IGF-I,II. The current study demonstrates that GFs differentially regulate the regeneration of human gastric epithelial cells through specific modulation of cell shape adaptation, migration and proliferation, further stressing that a coordination of GF activities would be necessary for the normal progression of post-wounding epithelial repair. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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