Characterization of cardiac fibroblast-extracellular matrix crosstalk across developmental ages provides insight into age-related changes in cardiac repair

Copyright © 2024 Perreault, Daley, Watson, Rastogi, Jaiganesh, Porter, Duffy and Black..

Heart failure afflicts an estimated 6.5 million people in the United States, driven largely by incidents of coronary heart disease (CHD). CHD leads to heart failure due to the inability of adult myocardial tissue to regenerate after myocardial infarction (MI). Instead, immune cells and resident cardiac fibroblasts (CFs), the cells responsible for the maintenance of the cardiac extracellular matrix (cECM), drive an inflammatory wound healing response, which leads to fibrotic scar tissue. However, fibrosis is reduced in fetal and early (<1-week-old) neonatal mammals, which exhibit a transient capability for regenerative tissue remodeling. Recent work by our laboratory and others suggests this is in part due to compositional differences in the cECM and functional differences in CFs with respect to developmental age. Specifically, fetal cECM and CFs appear to mitigate functional loss in MI models and engineered cardiac tissues, compared to adult CFs and cECM. We conducted 2D studies of CFs on solubilized fetal and adult cECM to investigate whether these age-specific functional differences are synergistic with respect to their impact on CF phenotype and, therefore, cardiac wound healing. We found that the CF migration rate and stiffness vary with respect to cell and cECM developmental age and that CF transition to a fibrotic phenotype can be partially attenuated in the fetal cECM. However, this effect was not observed when cells were treated with cytokine TGF-β1, suggesting that inflammatory signaling factors are the dominant driver of the fibroblast phenotype. This information may be valuable for targeted therapies aimed at modifying the CF wound healing response and is broadly applicable to age-related studies of cardiac remodeling.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

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Frontiers in cell and developmental biology - 12(2024) vom: 15., Seite 1279932

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Perreault, Luke R [VerfasserIn]
Daley, Mark C [VerfasserIn]
Watson, Matthew C [VerfasserIn]
Rastogi, Sagar [VerfasserIn]
Jaiganesh, Ajith [VerfasserIn]
Porter, Elizabeth C [VerfasserIn]
Duffy, Breanna M [VerfasserIn]
Black, Lauren D [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiac development
Cardiac fibroblast
Extracellular matrix
Fibrosis
Journal Article
Wound healing

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Date Revised 05.03.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fcell.2024.1279932

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369244869