Hypoxic conditioned medium from human amniotic fluid-derived mesenchymal stem cells accelerates skin wound healing through TGF-β/SMAD2 and PI3K/Akt pathways

Int J Mol Sci. 2014 Jan 6;15(1):605-28. doi: 10.3390/ijms15010605.

Abstract

In a previous study, we isolated human amniotic fluid (AF)-derived mesenchymal stem cells (AF-MSCs) and utilized normoxic conditioned medium (AF-MSC-norCM) which has been shown to accelerate cutaneous wound healing. Because hypoxia enhances the wound healing function of mesenchymal stem cell-conditioned medium (MSC-CM), it is interesting to explore the mechanism responsible for the enhancement of wound healing function. In this work, hypoxia not only increased the proliferation of AF-MSCs but also maintained their constitutive characteristics (surface marker expression and differentiation potentials). Notably, more paracrine factors, VEGF and TGF-β1, were secreted into hypoxic conditioned medium from AF-MSCs (AF-MSC-hypoCM) compared to AF-MSC-norCM. Moreover, AF-MSC-hypoCM enhanced the proliferation and migration of human dermal fibroblasts in vitro, and wound closure in a skin injury model, as compared to AF-MSC-norCM. However, the enhancement of migration of fibroblasts accelerated by AF-MSC-hypoCM was inhibited by SB505124 and LY294002, inhibitors of TGF-β/SMAD2 and PI3K/AKT, suggesting that AF-MSC-hypoCM-enhanced wound healing is mediated by the activation of TGF-β/SMAD2 and PI3K/AKT. Therefore, AF-MSC-hypoCM enhances wound healing through the increase of hypoxia-induced paracrine factors via activation of TGF-β/SMAD2 and PI3K/AKT pathways.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amniotic Fluid / cytology
  • Animals
  • Benzodioxoles / pharmacology
  • Cell Hypoxia*
  • Cell Movement / drug effects
  • Cell Proliferation / drug effects
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Chromones / pharmacology
  • Culture Media, Conditioned / pharmacology*
  • Female
  • Fibroblasts / cytology
  • Humans
  • Imidazoles / pharmacology
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells / cytology
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells / metabolism
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred ICR
  • Morpholines / pharmacology
  • Pyridines / pharmacology
  • Signal Transduction / drug effects*
  • Skin / metabolism*
  • Skin / pathology
  • Smad2 Protein / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Smad2 Protein / metabolism
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta / metabolism
  • Wound Healing / drug effects*

Substances

  • 2-(5-benzo(1,3)dioxol-5-yl-2-tert-butyl-3H-imidazol-4-yl)-6-methylpyridine hydrochloride
  • Benzodioxoles
  • Chromones
  • Culture Media, Conditioned
  • Imidazoles
  • Morpholines
  • Pyridines
  • SMAD2 protein, human
  • Smad2 Protein
  • Transforming Growth Factor beta
  • 2-(4-morpholinyl)-8-phenyl-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one