Lecturer of Oral Medicine, Diagnosis and Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, October 6 University, Cairo, Egypt.
Lecturer of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, October 6 University, Cairo, Egypt.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2023 Jul 1;24(7):2531-2542. doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2023.24.7.2531.
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived exosomes offers several advantages as a cell-free therapeutic agents. In this study, Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells exosomes (UC-MSCs-exos) effects on oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) cell line was evaluated.
UC-MSCs-exos were isolated and co-cultured with OSCC cells and their impact on OSCC was explored by various tests. Comet assay and western blot for cleaved caspase-3 and immunocytochemistry for caspase-8 were used for apoptosis assessment. HO-1 and Nrf2 were used to determine antioxidant levels. Tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6 were assessed as inflammatory biomarkers. HOX transcript antisense intergenic long noncoding RNA (HOTAIR) expression was also evaluated.
In a dose-dependent manner, UC-MSCs-exos reduced the levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-6 and TNF-α) and induced apoptosis of OSCC in vitro. Meanwhile, we found that UC-MSCs-exos downregulate HOTAIR.
UC-MSCs-exos conferred a suppressive role on OSCC in vitro, highlighting a promising therapeutic role. However, the exact potentially involved molecules and molecular mechanisms need to be investigated in further studies.
间充质干细胞(MSCs)衍生的外泌体作为无细胞治疗剂具有多种优势。在这项研究中,评估了脐带间充质干细胞外泌体(UC-MSCs-exos)对口腔鳞状细胞癌(OSCC)细胞系的影响。
分离 UC-MSCs-exos 并与 OSCC 细胞共培养,通过各种测试探索其对 OSCC 的影响。彗星试验和裂解 caspase-3 的 Western blot 以及 caspase-8 的免疫细胞化学用于评估细胞凋亡。HO-1 和 Nrf2 用于确定抗氧化水平。肿瘤坏死因子-α和白细胞介素-6 作为炎症生物标志物进行评估。还评估了 HOX 转录反义基因间长非编码 RNA(HOTAIR)的表达。
UC-MSCs-exos 以剂量依赖的方式降低了促炎细胞因子(IL-6 和 TNF-α)的水平,并诱导了 OSCC 的体外凋亡。同时,我们发现 UC-MSCs-exos 下调了 HOTAIR。
UC-MSCs-exos 在体外对 OSCC 具有抑制作用,突出了其有希望的治疗作用。然而,确切的潜在涉及分子和分子机制需要在进一步的研究中进行调查。