Fat for fostering: Regenerating injured heart using local adipose tissue.
Fat for fostering: Regenerating injured heart using local adipose tissue.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.ebiom.2016.03.024
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发表时间:
2016-05
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影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Qian L
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作者:
Ma H;Liu J;Qian L
In this issue of EBioMedicine, Bayes-Genis and colleagues (Bayes-Genis et al., 2016) reported the first clinical study investigating safety and efficacy of the adipose graft transposition procedure (AGTP) in patients with chronic myocardial infarction undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. This innovative approach takes advantage of the local existing tissue to repair damaged myocardium, simplifying the surgical procedure and potentially avoiding the risks of using nonautologous cells or stem cells that have been manipulated in petri dish. Myocardial infarction (MI) is a devastating disease condition, and is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in western countries. In the past decade, significant advance has been made to develop novel therapeutic approaches to regenerate infarcted myocardium, including the stem cell therapy and the most recent reprogramming approaches. Stem cell therapy currently faces the challenges of poor cell survival, limited cell–cell interaction and functional integration of engrafted cells, as well as unclear mechanisms of some beneficial effects observed in animal model. Clinical studies of using stem cell or stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes have a mixed result (Mummery et al., 2010). The newly emerged reprogramming approach converting endogenous fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes could potentially overcome some of these challenges (Qian and Srivastava, 2013); however, this approach is currently at its fledgling stage and has been primarily tested on small rodents for effectiveness and safety. In clinic, revascularization strategies, including fibrinolysis, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and CABG, have greatly improved myocardial salvage and prognosis in patients suffering from acute myocardial infarction. However, patients who miss the narrow optimal time window for reperfusion therapy or those who experience detrimental ischemia reperfusion injury during revascularization, will develop myocardial scar over time, which ultimately contributes to cardiac dysfunction, malignant arrhythmia, sudden cardiac death and other major cardiovascular events (Klem et al.,