Mesenchymal stromal cell potency to treat acute kidney injury increased by ultrasound-activated interferon-?/interleukin-10 axis.
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ABSTRACT: Mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapies combined with renal pulsed focused ultrasound (pFUS) pretreatment increase MSC homing and improve cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) better than MSC alone. However, mechanisms underlying improved outcomes remain unknown. We hypothesize pFUS up-regulates renal interferon-? (IFN?) and stimulates MSC to produce interleukin-10 (IL-10) after migrating to kidneys. To demonstrate initially, MSC cultured with IFN? up-regulated IL-10. More MSC-derived IL-10 was detected in kidneys when IFN?-stimulated MSC were infused and they improved AKI better than unstimulated MSC. Next, IFN?-knockout mice with AKI received pFUS+MSC, but MSC-derived IL-10 expression and AKI were similar to using MSC alone. AKI in wild-type mice receiving pFUS and IL-10-deficient MSC was also unimproved compared to administering IL-10-deficient MSC alone. Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an anti-inflammatory enzyme up-regulated in MSC by IFN?, was up-regulated during AKI, but was not further elevated in MSC from pFUS-treated kidneys, suggesting that IDO is not involved in improved AKI healing by pFUS+MSC. These data suggest IFN? is up-regulated by pFUS and after i.v.-infused MSC home to pFUS-treated kidneys, IFN? stimulates additional IL-10 production by MSC to improve AKI. Analogous mechanisms of ultrasound-treated tissue microenvironments stimulating therapeutic MSC may exist in other pathologies where adjuvant ultrasound techniques are successful.
SUBMITTER: Burks SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6237567 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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