Cargando…
Interstitial Macrophages Lead Early Stages of Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis and Induce Fibroblasts Activation
A progressive fibrosing phenotype is critical in several lung diseases. It is irreversible and associated with early patient mortality. Growing evidence has revealed pulmonary macrophages’ role as modulators of the fibrotic processes. The proportion, phenotype, and function of alveolar (AM) and inte...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
MDPI
2023
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9913327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36766744 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells12030402 |
_version_ | 1784885400284692480 |
---|---|
author | Libório-Ramos, Sofia Barbosa-Matos, Catarina Fernandes, Raquel Borges-Pereira, Caroline Costa, Sandra |
author_facet | Libório-Ramos, Sofia Barbosa-Matos, Catarina Fernandes, Raquel Borges-Pereira, Caroline Costa, Sandra |
author_sort | Libório-Ramos, Sofia |
collection | PubMed |
description | A progressive fibrosing phenotype is critical in several lung diseases. It is irreversible and associated with early patient mortality. Growing evidence has revealed pulmonary macrophages’ role as modulators of the fibrotic processes. The proportion, phenotype, and function of alveolar (AM) and interstitial macrophages (IM) at the early stages of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis have not been clearly described. In this way, our study aimed to characterize these macrophage populations and investigate the effect on fibroblast activation. C57BL/6 mice were intratracheally injected with bleomycin and were sacrificed at day 3, 5, and 7 for the performance of flow cytometry and fluorescent-activated cell sorting analysis for protein and gene expression quantification. After bleomycin administration, the proportion of IM was significantly higher than that of AM, which showed a decay during the inflammatory phase, and peaked at day 7. At day 7 of the inflammatory phase, AM started shifting their phenotype from M1-like towards M2, while IM showed a M2-like phenotype. Conditioned medium derived from IM sorted at day 7 induced fibroblast activation and differentiation in myofibroblasts in vitro. Our findings indicate that IM are the largest macrophage population at the early stages of experimental pulmonary fibrosis and are secreted mediators able to activate fibroblasts, pointing to macrophage modulation as a potential therapeutic strategy to restrain progressive fibrosing lung disorders. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-9913327 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2023 |
publisher | MDPI |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-99133272023-02-11 Interstitial Macrophages Lead Early Stages of Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis and Induce Fibroblasts Activation Libório-Ramos, Sofia Barbosa-Matos, Catarina Fernandes, Raquel Borges-Pereira, Caroline Costa, Sandra Cells Article A progressive fibrosing phenotype is critical in several lung diseases. It is irreversible and associated with early patient mortality. Growing evidence has revealed pulmonary macrophages’ role as modulators of the fibrotic processes. The proportion, phenotype, and function of alveolar (AM) and interstitial macrophages (IM) at the early stages of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis have not been clearly described. In this way, our study aimed to characterize these macrophage populations and investigate the effect on fibroblast activation. C57BL/6 mice were intratracheally injected with bleomycin and were sacrificed at day 3, 5, and 7 for the performance of flow cytometry and fluorescent-activated cell sorting analysis for protein and gene expression quantification. After bleomycin administration, the proportion of IM was significantly higher than that of AM, which showed a decay during the inflammatory phase, and peaked at day 7. At day 7 of the inflammatory phase, AM started shifting their phenotype from M1-like towards M2, while IM showed a M2-like phenotype. Conditioned medium derived from IM sorted at day 7 induced fibroblast activation and differentiation in myofibroblasts in vitro. Our findings indicate that IM are the largest macrophage population at the early stages of experimental pulmonary fibrosis and are secreted mediators able to activate fibroblasts, pointing to macrophage modulation as a potential therapeutic strategy to restrain progressive fibrosing lung disorders. MDPI 2023-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9913327/ /pubmed/36766744 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells12030402 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Libório-Ramos, Sofia Barbosa-Matos, Catarina Fernandes, Raquel Borges-Pereira, Caroline Costa, Sandra Interstitial Macrophages Lead Early Stages of Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis and Induce Fibroblasts Activation |
title | Interstitial Macrophages Lead Early Stages of Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis and Induce Fibroblasts Activation |
title_full | Interstitial Macrophages Lead Early Stages of Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis and Induce Fibroblasts Activation |
title_fullStr | Interstitial Macrophages Lead Early Stages of Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis and Induce Fibroblasts Activation |
title_full_unstemmed | Interstitial Macrophages Lead Early Stages of Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis and Induce Fibroblasts Activation |
title_short | Interstitial Macrophages Lead Early Stages of Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis and Induce Fibroblasts Activation |
title_sort | interstitial macrophages lead early stages of bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis and induce fibroblasts activation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9913327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36766744 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells12030402 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT liborioramossofia interstitialmacrophagesleadearlystagesofbleomycininducedlungfibrosisandinducefibroblastsactivation AT barbosamatoscatarina interstitialmacrophagesleadearlystagesofbleomycininducedlungfibrosisandinducefibroblastsactivation AT fernandesraquel interstitialmacrophagesleadearlystagesofbleomycininducedlungfibrosisandinducefibroblastsactivation AT borgespereiracaroline interstitialmacrophagesleadearlystagesofbleomycininducedlungfibrosisandinducefibroblastsactivation AT costasandra interstitialmacrophagesleadearlystagesofbleomycininducedlungfibrosisandinducefibroblastsactivation |