The efficiency of regenerative medicine can be ameliorated by improving the biological performances of stem cells before their transplantation. Several ex-vivo protocols of non-damaging cell hypoxia have been demonstrated to significantly increase survival, proliferation and post-engraftment differentiation potential of stem cells. The best results for priming cultured stem cells against a following, otherwise lethal, ischemic stress have been obtained with brief intermittent episodes of hypoxia, or anoxia, and reoxygenation in accordance with the extraordinary protection afforded by the conventional maneuver of ischemic preconditioning in severely ischemic organs. These protocols of hypoxic preconditioning can be rather easily reproduced in a laboratory; however, more suitable pharmacological interventions inducing stem cell responses similar to those activated in hypoxia are considered among the most promising solutions for future applications in cell therapy. Here we want to offer an up-to-date review of the molecular mechanisms translating hypoxia into beneficial events for regenerative medicine. To this aim the involvement of epigenetic modifications, microRNAs, and oxidative stress, mainly activated by hypoxia inducible factors, will be discussed. Stem cell adaptation to their natural hypoxic microenvironments (niche) in healthy and neoplastic tissues will be also considered.

Claudio Muscari, Emanuele Giordano, Francesca Bonafè, Marco Govoni, Alice Pasini, Carlo Guarnieri (2013). Priming adult stem cells by hypoxic pretreatments for applications in regenerative medicine. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE, 20(1), 1-13 [10.1186/1423-0127-20-63].

Priming adult stem cells by hypoxic pretreatments for applications in regenerative medicine

MUSCARI, CLAUDIO;GIORDANO, EMANUELE DOMENICO;BONAFÈ, FRANCESCA;GOVONI, MARCO;PASINI, ALICE;GUARNIERI, CARLO
2013

Abstract

The efficiency of regenerative medicine can be ameliorated by improving the biological performances of stem cells before their transplantation. Several ex-vivo protocols of non-damaging cell hypoxia have been demonstrated to significantly increase survival, proliferation and post-engraftment differentiation potential of stem cells. The best results for priming cultured stem cells against a following, otherwise lethal, ischemic stress have been obtained with brief intermittent episodes of hypoxia, or anoxia, and reoxygenation in accordance with the extraordinary protection afforded by the conventional maneuver of ischemic preconditioning in severely ischemic organs. These protocols of hypoxic preconditioning can be rather easily reproduced in a laboratory; however, more suitable pharmacological interventions inducing stem cell responses similar to those activated in hypoxia are considered among the most promising solutions for future applications in cell therapy. Here we want to offer an up-to-date review of the molecular mechanisms translating hypoxia into beneficial events for regenerative medicine. To this aim the involvement of epigenetic modifications, microRNAs, and oxidative stress, mainly activated by hypoxia inducible factors, will be discussed. Stem cell adaptation to their natural hypoxic microenvironments (niche) in healthy and neoplastic tissues will be also considered.
2013
Claudio Muscari, Emanuele Giordano, Francesca Bonafè, Marco Govoni, Alice Pasini, Carlo Guarnieri (2013). Priming adult stem cells by hypoxic pretreatments for applications in regenerative medicine. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE, 20(1), 1-13 [10.1186/1423-0127-20-63].
Claudio Muscari;Emanuele Giordano;Francesca Bonafè;Marco Govoni;Alice Pasini;Carlo Guarnieri
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