Liver Transplantation Center and HBP Surgery, Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, Sichuan Cancer Center, Cancer Hospital Affiliate to University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610042, Sichuan, China.
School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, Sichuan, China.
J Nanobiotechnology. 2023 Jan 25;21(1):29. doi: 10.1186/s12951-023-01788-4.
Liver fibrosis is a chronic liver disease with the presence of progressive wound healing response caused by liver injury. Currently, there are no approved therapies for liver fibrosis. Exosomes derived from human adipose mesenchymal stem cells (hADMSCs-Exo) have displayed a prominent therapeutic effect on liver diseases. However, few studies have evaluated therapeutic effect of hADMSCs-Exo in liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, and its precise mechanisms of action remain unclear. Herein, we investigated anti-fibrotic efficacy of hADMSCs-Exo in vitro and in vivo, and identified important metabolic changes and the detailed mechanism through transcriptomic and metabolomic profiling. We found hADMSCs-Exo could inhibit the proliferation of activated hepatic stellate cells through aggravating apoptosis and arresting G1 phase, effectively inhibiting the expression of profibrogenic proteins and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in vitro. Moreover, it could significantly block collagen deposition and EMT process, improve liver function and reduce liver inflammation in liver cirrhosis mice model. The omics analysis revealed that the key mechanism of hADMSCs-Exo anti-hepatic fibrosis was the inhibition of PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway and affecting the changes of metabolites in lipid metabolism, and mainly regulating choline metabolism. CHPT1 activated by hADMSCs-Exo facilitated formation and maintenance of vesicular membranes. Thus, our study indicates that hADMSCs-Exo can attenuate hepatic stellate cell activation and suppress the progression of liver fibrosis, which holds the significant potential of hADMSCs-Exo for use as extracellular nanovesicles-based therapeutics in the treatment of liver fibrosis and possibly other intractable chronic liver diseases.
肝纤维化是一种慢性肝病,其特征是肝脏损伤引起的进行性伤口愈合反应。目前,尚无批准用于肝纤维化的治疗方法。来源于人脂肪间充质干细胞(hADMSCs-Exo)的外泌体在肝脏疾病中显示出突出的治疗效果。然而,很少有研究评估 hADMSCs-Exo 对肝纤维化和肝硬化的治疗效果,其确切作用机制尚不清楚。在此,我们研究了 hADMSCs-Exo 在体内和体外的抗纤维化功效,并通过转录组和代谢组学分析确定了重要的代谢变化和详细的作用机制。我们发现 hADMSCs-Exo 可以通过加重细胞凋亡和阻止 G1 期来抑制激活的肝星状细胞的增殖,有效抑制体外的促纤维化蛋白和上皮间质转化(EMT)的表达。此外,它还可以显著阻断胶原沉积和 EMT 过程,改善肝硬化小鼠模型的肝功能和减轻肝脏炎症。组学分析表明,hADMSCs-Exo 抗肝纤维化的关键机制是抑制 PI3K/AKT/mTOR 信号通路和影响脂质代谢中代谢物的变化,主要调节胆碱代谢。hADMSCs-Exo 激活的 CHPT1 有助于囊泡膜的形成和维持。因此,我们的研究表明,hADMSCs-Exo 可以减弱肝星状细胞的激活并抑制肝纤维化的进展,这表明 hADMSCs-Exo 作为基于细胞外纳米囊泡的治疗剂在治疗肝纤维化和可能的其他难治性慢性肝病方面具有重要的应用潜力。
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