Stem cells in regenerative therapy of cardiac pathology. The role of intercellular interactions.
E.Yu. Plotnikov1, D.B. Zorov2, G.T. Sukhikh1
1. V.I. Kulakov Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology of Rosmedtechnologies, Moscow
2. A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Keywords:
stem and progenitor cells, cardiomiocytes, tunneling nanotubes, myocardial infarction
Regenerative cell therapy represents the most perspective innovative method in
treatment of consequences of a heart attacks of a myocardium both other
functional and structural changes of a heart tissue. Are most widely used as a
material for cellular transplantation and myocardium regeneration embryonic and
meshenchymal stem cells, and also some other types of stem and progenitor
cells. The primary goal assigned to stem cells — to be differentiated to the
functionally active cardiomyocytes and to be integrated Into a myocardium
tissue of the recipient. Management of a differentiation of stem cells goes in
a myocardium at the expense of influence of a microenvironment and the direct
intercellular signaling when cell-to-cell crosstalk between the neighboring
cells regulates a differentiation direction. Now experimental acknowledgement
was received by three basic types of interaction of stem/progenitor cells with
cardiomyocytes, to some extent associated with a transdifferentiation. These
are cell fusion, formation of intercellular contacts of gap-junction and
recently found interaction type — tunneling nanotubes (TNTsl. In the review we
consider the data on positive effects of stem and progenitor cells in heart
pathologies and a role of intercellular interactions in realization of these
effects.
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