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Clonally expanded human airway smooth muscle cells exhibit morphological and functional heterogeneity
BACKGROUND: Mesenchyme-derived airway cell populations including airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells, fibroblasts and myofibroblasts play key roles in the pathogenesis of airway inflammation and remodeling. Phenotypic and functional characterisation of these cell populations are confounded by their het...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014754/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24886333 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-15-57 |
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author | Singh, Shailendra R Billington, Charlotte K Sayers, Ian Hall, Ian P |
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description | BACKGROUND: Mesenchyme-derived airway cell populations including airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells, fibroblasts and myofibroblasts play key roles in the pathogenesis of airway inflammation and remodeling. Phenotypic and functional characterisation of these cell populations are confounded by their heterogeneity in vitro. It is unclear which mechanisms underlie the creation of these different sub-populations. The study objectives were to investigate whether ASM cells are capable of clonal expansion and if so (i) what proportion possess this capability and (ii) do clonal populations exhibit variation in terms of morphology, phenotype, proliferation rates and pro-relaxant or pro-contractile signaling pathways. METHODS: Early passage human ASM cells were subjected to single-cell cloning and their doubling time was recorded. Immunocytochemistry was performed to assess localization and levels of markers previously reported to be specifically associated with smooth muscle or fibroblasts. Finally functional assays were used to reveal differences between clonal populations specifically assessing mitogen-induced proliferation and pro-relaxant and pro-contractile signaling pathways. RESULTS: Our studies provide evidence that a high proportion (58%) of single cells present within early passage human ASM cell cultures have the potential to create expanded cell populations. Despite being clonally-originated, morphological heterogeneity was still evident within these clonal populations as assessed by the range in expression of markers associated with smooth muscle cells. Functional diversity was observed between clonal populations with 10 μM isoproterenol-induced cyclic AMP responses ranging from 1.4 - 5.4 fold cf basal and bradykinin-induced inositol phosphate from 1.8 - 5.2 fold cf basal. CONCLUSION: In summary we show for the first time that primary human ASM cells are capable of clonal expansion and that the resulting clonal populations themselves exhibit phenotypic plasticity. |
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spelling | pubmed-40147542014-05-10 Clonally expanded human airway smooth muscle cells exhibit morphological and functional heterogeneity Singh, Shailendra R Billington, Charlotte K Sayers, Ian Hall, Ian P Respir Res Research BACKGROUND: Mesenchyme-derived airway cell populations including airway smooth muscle (ASM) cells, fibroblasts and myofibroblasts play key roles in the pathogenesis of airway inflammation and remodeling. Phenotypic and functional characterisation of these cell populations are confounded by their heterogeneity in vitro. It is unclear which mechanisms underlie the creation of these different sub-populations. The study objectives were to investigate whether ASM cells are capable of clonal expansion and if so (i) what proportion possess this capability and (ii) do clonal populations exhibit variation in terms of morphology, phenotype, proliferation rates and pro-relaxant or pro-contractile signaling pathways. METHODS: Early passage human ASM cells were subjected to single-cell cloning and their doubling time was recorded. Immunocytochemistry was performed to assess localization and levels of markers previously reported to be specifically associated with smooth muscle or fibroblasts. Finally functional assays were used to reveal differences between clonal populations specifically assessing mitogen-induced proliferation and pro-relaxant and pro-contractile signaling pathways. RESULTS: Our studies provide evidence that a high proportion (58%) of single cells present within early passage human ASM cell cultures have the potential to create expanded cell populations. Despite being clonally-originated, morphological heterogeneity was still evident within these clonal populations as assessed by the range in expression of markers associated with smooth muscle cells. Functional diversity was observed between clonal populations with 10 μM isoproterenol-induced cyclic AMP responses ranging from 1.4 - 5.4 fold cf basal and bradykinin-induced inositol phosphate from 1.8 - 5.2 fold cf basal. CONCLUSION: In summary we show for the first time that primary human ASM cells are capable of clonal expansion and that the resulting clonal populations themselves exhibit phenotypic plasticity. BioMed Central 2014 2014-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4014754/ /pubmed/24886333 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-15-57 Text en Copyright © 2014 Singh et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Singh, Shailendra R Billington, Charlotte K Sayers, Ian Hall, Ian P Clonally expanded human airway smooth muscle cells exhibit morphological and functional heterogeneity |
title | Clonally expanded human airway smooth muscle cells exhibit morphological and functional heterogeneity |
title_full | Clonally expanded human airway smooth muscle cells exhibit morphological and functional heterogeneity |
title_fullStr | Clonally expanded human airway smooth muscle cells exhibit morphological and functional heterogeneity |
title_full_unstemmed | Clonally expanded human airway smooth muscle cells exhibit morphological and functional heterogeneity |
title_short | Clonally expanded human airway smooth muscle cells exhibit morphological and functional heterogeneity |
title_sort | clonally expanded human airway smooth muscle cells exhibit morphological and functional heterogeneity |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014754/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24886333 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-15-57 |
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