The gestational power of mast cells in the injured tissue

Inflamm Res. 2018 Feb;67(2):111-116. doi: 10.1007/s00011-017-1108-5. Epub 2017 Nov 3.

Abstract

The inflammatory response expressed after wound healing would be the recapitulation of systemic extra-embryonic functions, which would focus on the interstitium of the injured tissue. In the injured tissue, mast cells, provided for a great functional heterogeneity, could play the leading role in the re-expression of extra-embryonic functions, i.e., coelomic-amniotic and trophoblastic-vitelline. Moreover, mast cells would favor the production of a gastrulation-like process, which in certain tissues and organs would induce the regeneration of the injured tissue. Therefore, the engraftment of mesenchymal stem cells and mast cells, both with an extra-embryonic regenerative phenotype, would achieve a blastema, from the repaired and regenerated injured tissue, rather than by fibrosis, which is commonly made through wound-healing.

Keywords: Amnion; Embryonic; Mast cells; Mesenchymal stem cells; Regeneration; Wound healing; Yolk sac.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Inflammation / pathology
  • Inflammation / physiopathology
  • Mast Cells / physiology*
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells / physiology
  • Regeneration / physiology
  • Wound Healing / physiology*