Acellular bioscaffolds redirect cardiac fibroblasts and promote functional tissue repair in rodents and humans with myocardial injury

Coronary heart disease is a leading cause of death. Tissue remodeling and fibrosis results in cardiac pump dysfunction and ischemic heart failure. Cardiac fibroblasts may rebuild damaged tissues when prompted by suitable environmental cues. Here, we use acellular biologic extracellular matrix scaffolds (bioscaffolds) to stimulate pathways of muscle repair and restore tissue function. We show that acellular bioscaffolds with bioinductive properties can redirect cardiac fibroblasts to rebuild microvascular networks and avoid tissue fibrosis. Specifically, when human cardiac fibroblasts are combined with bioactive scaffolds, gene expression is upregulated and paracrine mediators are released that promote vasculogenesis and prevent scarring. We assess these properties in rodents with myocardial infarction and observe bioscaffolds to redirect fibroblasts, reduce tissue fibrosis and prevent maladaptive structural remodeling. Our preclinical data confirms that acellular bioscaffold therapy provides an appropriate microenvironment to stimulate pathways of functional repair. We translate our observations to patients with coronary heart disease by conducting a first-in-human observational cohort study. We show that bioscaffold therapy is associated with improved perfusion of infarcted myocardium, reduced myocardial scar burden, and reverse structural remodeling. We establish that clinical use of acellular bioscaffolds is feasible and offers a new frontier to enhance surgical revascularization of ischemic heart muscle.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 10(2020), 1 vom: 11. Juni, Seite 9459

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Svystonyuk, Daniyil A [VerfasserIn]
Mewhort, Holly E M [VerfasserIn]
Hassanabad, Ali Fatehi [VerfasserIn]
Heydari, Bobak [VerfasserIn]
Mikami, Yoko [VerfasserIn]
Turnbull, Jeannine D [VerfasserIn]
Teng, Guoqi [VerfasserIn]
Belke, Darrell D [VerfasserIn]
Wagner, Karl T [VerfasserIn]
Tarraf, Samar A [VerfasserIn]
DiMartino, Elena S [VerfasserIn]
White, James A [VerfasserIn]
Flewitt, Jacqueline A [VerfasserIn]
Cheung, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
Guzzardi, David G [VerfasserIn]
Kang, Sean [VerfasserIn]
Fedak, Paul W M [VerfasserIn]

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Clinical Trial
Journal Article
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 30.11.2020

Date Revised 11.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-020-66327-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311072348