单位:[a]Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA[b]Liver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine in Liver Cirrhosis, National Clinical Research Center of Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China临床科室国家中心肝病分中心首都医科大学附属北京友谊医院[c]Department of Surgery, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
The lack of approved therapies for hepatic fibrosis seriously limits medical management of patients with chronic liver disease. Since extracellular vesicles (EVs) function as conduits for intercellular molecular transfer, we investigated if EVs from healthy individuals have anti-fibrotic properties. Hepatic fibrogenesis or fibrosis in carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)- or thioacetic acid-induced liver injury models in male or female mice were suppressed by serum EVs from normal mice (EVN) but not from fibrotic mice (EVF). CCl4-treated mice undergoing EVN therapy also exhibited reduced levels of hepatocyte death, inflammatory infiltration, circulating AST/ALT levels and hepatic or circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines. Hepatic histology, liver function tests or circulating proinflammatory cytokine levels were unaltered in control mice receiving EVN. As determined using PKH26-labelled EVN, principal target cells included hepatic stellate cells (HSC; a normally quiescent fibroblastic cell that undergoes injury-induced activation and produces fibrosis during chronic injury) or hepatocytes which showed increased EVN binding after, respectively, activation or exposure to CCl4. In vitro, EVN decreased proliferation and fibrosis-associated molecule expression in activated HSC, while reversing the inhibitory effects of CCl4 or ethanol on hepatocyte proliferation. In mice, microRNA-34c, -151-3p, -483-5p, -532-5p and -687 were more highly expressed in EVN than EVF and mimics of these microRNAs (miRs) individually suppressed fibrogenic gene expression in activated HSC. A role for these miRs in contributing to EVN actions was shown by the ability of their corresponding antagomirs to individually and/or collectively block the therapeutic effects of EVN on activated HSC or injured hepatocytes. Similarly, the activated phenotype of human LX-2 HSC was attenuated by serum EVs from healthy human subjects and contained higher miR-34c, -151-3p, -483-5p or -532-5p than EVs from hepatic fibrosis patients. In conclusion, serum EVs from normal healthy individuals are inherently anti-fibrogenic and anti-fibrotic, and contain microRNAs that have therapeutic actions in activated HSC or injured hepatocytes.
基金:
National Institutes of HealthUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA [R01AA021276, R21AA023626]; National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [81570542]; NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISMUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA) [R21AA023626, R01AA021276] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER; OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTHUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA [U42OD012210] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
第一作者单位:[a]Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[a]Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA[c]Department of Surgery, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA[*1]Center for Clinical and Translational Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Room WA2011, 700 Children’s Drive, Columbus, OH 43205, USA
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Li Chen,Ruju Chen,Sherri Kemper,et al.Therapeutic effects of serum extracellular vesicles in liver fibrosis[J].JOURNAL of EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES.2018,7(1):doi:10.1080/20013078.2018.1461505.
APA:
Li Chen,Ruju Chen,Sherri Kemper,Min Cong,Hong You&David R. Brigstock.(2018).Therapeutic effects of serum extracellular vesicles in liver fibrosis.JOURNAL of EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES,7,(1)
MLA:
Li Chen,et al."Therapeutic effects of serum extracellular vesicles in liver fibrosis".JOURNAL of EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES 7..1(2018)