Published ahead of print on May 12, 2005, doi:10.1165/rcmb.2004-0330OC
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. Vol. 33, pp. 145-152, 2005
© 2005 American Thoracic Society DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2004-0330OC
Bone MarrowDerived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Repair of the Injured Lung
Mauricio Rojas,
Jianguo Xu,
Charles R. Woods,
Ana L. Mora,
Willy Spears,
Jesse Roman and
Kenneth L. Brigham
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine; Center for Translational Research of the Lung, McKelvey Center for Lung Transplantation, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine; and Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Mauricio Rojas, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Center for Translational Research of the Lung, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322. E-mail: mrojas{at}emory.edu
We sought to determine whether an intact bone marrow is essential to lung repair following bleomycin-induced lung injury in mice, and the mechanisms of any protective effects conferred by bone marrowderived mesenchymal stem cell (BMDMSC) transfer. We found that myelosupression increased susceptibility to bleomycin injury and that BMDMSC transfer was protective. Protection was associated with the differentiation of engrafted BMDMSC into specific and distinct lung cell phenotypes, with an increase in circulating levels of G-CSF and GM-CSF (known for their ability to promote the mobilization of endogenous stem cells) and with a decrease in inflammatory cytokines. In vitro, cells from injured, but not from normal, mouse lung produced soluble factors that caused BMDMSC to proliferate and migrate toward the injured lung. We conclude that bone marrow stem cells are important in the repair of bleomycin-injured lung and that transfer of mesenchymal stem cells protects against the injury. BMDMSC localize to the injured lung and assume lung cell phenotypes, but protection from injury and fibrosis also involves suppression of inflammation and triggering production of reparative growth factors.
Key Words: stem cells lung injury bleomycin
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