Mesenchymal stem cells improve cardiac conduction by upregulation of connexin 43 through paracrine signaling
Mesenchymal stem cells improve cardiac conduction by upregulation of connexin 43 through paracrine signaling
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DOI:
10.1152/ajpheart.00533.2012
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发表时间:
2013-02-01
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4.8
通讯作者:
Banach, Kathrin
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作者:
Mureli, Shwetha;Gans, Christopher P.;Banach, Kathrin
Mureli S, Gans CP, Bare DJ, Geenen DL, Kumar NM, Banach K. Mesenchymal stem cells improve cardiac conduction by upregulation of connexin 43 through paracrine signaling. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 304: H600-H609, 2013. First published December 15, 2012; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00533.2012.-Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) were shown to improve cell survival and alleviate cardiac arrhythmias when transplanted into cardiac tissue; however, little is known about the mechanism by which MSCs modify the electrophysiological properties of cardiac tissue. We aimed to distinguish the influence of cell-cell coupling between myocytes and MSCs from that of MSC-derived paracrine factors on the spontaneous activity and conduction velocity (theta) of multicellular cardiomyocyte preparations. HL-1 cells were plated on microelectrode arrays and their spontaneous activity and theta was determined from field potential recordings. In heterocellular cultures of MSCs and HL-1 cells the beating frequency was attenuated (t(0h): 2.26 +/- 0.18 Hz; t(4h): 1.98 +/- 0.26 Hz; P < 0.01) concomitant to the intercellular coupling between MSCs and cardiomyocytes. In HL-1 monolayers supplemented with MSC conditioned media (ConM) or tyrode (ConT) theta significantly increased in a time-dependent manner (ConT: t(0h): 2.4 cm/s +/- 0.2; t(4h): 3.1 +/- 0.4 cm/s), whereas the beating frequency remained constant. Connexin (Cx)43 mRNA and protein expression levels also increased after ConM or ConT treatment over the same time period. Enhanced low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 6 (LRP6) phosphorylation after ConT treatment implicates the Wnt signaling pathway. Suppression of Wnt secretion from MSCs (IWP-2; 5 mu mol/l) reduced the efficacy of ConT to induce phospho-LRP6 and to increase theta. Inhibition of beta-catenin (cardamonin; 10 mu mol/l) or GSK3-alpha/beta (LiCl; 5 mmol/l) also suppressed changes in theta, further supporting the hypothesis that MSC-mediated Cx43 upregulation occurs in part through secreted Wnt ligands and activation of the canonical Wnt signaling pathway.