RWJ-67657 treatment post-MI had beneficial effects on LV remodeling and dysfunction, supporting a key role for p38 MAPK in pathologic cell signaling in these processes and its inhibition as a novel therapy.
These findings indicate that tranilast has antifibrotic actions in the Ren-2 model of experimental diabetic cardiac disease by mechanisms that might attributable to reduced TGF-beta activity.
The cardiovascular therapeutic potential of bone marrow mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSC) is largely mediated by paracrine effects. Traditional preparation of MSC has involved plastic adherence-isolation. In contrast, prospective immunoselection aims to improve cell isolation by enriching for mesenchymal precursor cells (MPC) at higher purity. This study compared the biological characteristics and cardiovascular trophic activity of plastic adherence-isolated MSC (PA-MSC) and MPC prepared from the same human donors by immunoselection for stromal precursor antigen-1 (STRO-1). Compared to PA-MSC, STRO-1-MPC displayed greater (1) clonogenicity, (2) proliferative capacity, (3) multilineage differentiation potential, and (4) mRNA expression of mesenchymal stem cell-related transcripts. In vitro assays demonstrated that conditioned medium from STRO-1-MPC had greater paracrine activity than PA-MSC, with respect to cardiac cell proliferation and migration and endothelial cell migration and tube formation. In keeping with this, STRO-1-MPC exhibited higher gene and protein expression of CXCL12 and HGF. Inhibition of these cytokines attenuated endothelial tube formation and cardiac cell proliferation, respectively. Paracrine responses were enhanced by using supernatant from STRO-1(Bright) MPC and diminished with STRO-1(Dim) conditioned medium. Together, these findings indicate that prospective isolation gives rise to mesenchymal progeny that maintain a higher proportion of immature precursor cells compared to traditional plastic adherence-isolation. Enrichment for STRO-1 is also accompanied by increased expression of cardiovascular-relevant cytokines and enhanced trophic activity. Immunoselection thus provides a strategy for improving the cardiovascular reparative potential of mesenchymal cells.
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