Abstract

A rapid and robust method to generate therapeutic resident lung progenitors from adult lung tissues is reported. Outgrowth cells from healthy lung explants were self-aggregated into three-dimensional lung spheroids. Lung spheroid cells inhibited apoptosis, fibrosis, and infiltration but promoted angiogenesis and outperformed adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells, suggesting that lung spheroids and lung spheroid cells from healthy lung tissues are excellent sources of regenerative lung cells for therapeutic lung regeneration.

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Title
Adult Lung Spheroid Cells Contain Progenitor Cells and Mediate Regeneration in Rodents With Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis
Author
Henry, Eric 1 ; Cores Jhon 1 ; Taylor, Hensley M 2 ; Shirena, Anthony 3 ; Vandergriff, Adam 1 ; De Andrade James B.M. 2 ; Tyler, Allen 2 ; Caranasos, Thomas G 4 ; Lobo, Leonard J 5 ; Cheng, Ke 1 

 Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences and Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 
 Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences and Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 
 Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 
 Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 
 Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 
Pages
1265-1274
Section
Tissue-Specific Progenitor and Stem Cells
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Nov 2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISSN
21576564
e-ISSN
21576580
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2289561716
Copyright
© 2015. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.