Mesenchymal Cell News Volume 13.25 | Jun 29 2021

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    Mesenchymal Cell News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 13.25 – 29 June, 2021
    TOP STORY

    A Self-Amplifying Loop of YAP and SHH Drives Formation and Expansion of Heterotopic Ossification

    In mouse models of progressive osseous heteroplasia, a disease caused by null mutations in GNAS, researchers found that Gnas−/− mesenchymal cells secreted Sonic hedgehog (SHH), which induced osteoblast differentiation of the surrounding wild-type cells.
    [Science Translational Medicine]

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    Effect of Expansion Media and Fibronectin Coating on Growth and Chondrogenic Differentiation of Human Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells

    The use of a xenogeneic-free medium provided a suitable alternative for human bone marrow MSC expansion, due to the capability to maintain cell characteristic and potency.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Cell-Fate Decision of Mesenchymal Stem Cells toward Osteocyte Differentiation Is Committed by Spheroid Culture

    While the osteocytes are known as terminally differentiated cells derived from MSCs, the detailed mechanisms of osteocyte differentiation remain unclear. Scientists fabricated 3D self-organized spheroids using human MSCs.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Conditioned Medium of IGF1-Induced Synovial Membrane Mesenchymal Stem Cells Increases Chondrogenic and Chondroprotective Markers in Chondrocyte Inflammation

    Investigators determined the growth factors content in conditioned medium of synovial membrane MSCs (SMMSCs-CM) as well as the chondrogenic and chondroprotective markers expression in osteoarthritis model after IGF1-induced and non-induced SMMSCs-CM treatments.
    [Bioscience Reports]

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    Matrigel Enhances Differentiation of Human Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells Into Dopaminergic Neuron

    The authors investigated the differentiation capacity of human adult MSCs derived from adipose tissue into dopaminergic and neuron-like cells in the 3D culture plate.
    [Neuroscience Letters]

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    TCF21+ Mesenchymal Cells Contribute to Testis Somatic Cell Development, Homeostasis, and Regeneration in Mice

    The authors revealed that the testis, like other organs, maintained multipotent mesenchymal progenitors that could be potentially leveraged in the development of future therapies for hypoandrogenism and/or infertility.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Stat3 Loss in Mesenchymal Progenitors Causes Job Syndrome-Like Skeletal Defects by Reducing Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling

    Researchers investigated the molecular mechanism whereby Stat3 regulated skeletal development and osteoblast differentiation.
    [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]

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    Inverse and Reciprocal Regulation of p53/p21 and BMI-1 Modulates Vasculogenic Differentiation of Dental Pulp Stem Cells

    Dental pulp stem cells seeded in biodegradable scaffolds and transplanted into immunodeficient mice generated mature human blood vessels invested with smooth muscle actin-positive mural cells.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    A Novel BRD4 Inhibitor Suppresses Osteoclastogenesis and Ovariectomized Osteoporosis by Blocking RANKL-Mediated MAPK and NF-κB Pathways

    Scientists revealed that (+)-ND could repress osteoclast synthesis, bone resorption function in vitro, and attenuated ovariectomy-triggered bone loss in vivo.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Delayed Fracture Healing in Mmp10 (Stromelysin 2) Knockout Mice

    Researchers provided evidence of the in vivo function of MMP-10 during endochondral ossification and defined the macrophages as the lead cell population in cartilage removal and vascular invasion.
    [Journal of Bone and Mineral Research]

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    REVIEWS

    Microfluidic Tools for Enhanced Characterization of Therapeutic Stem Cells and Prediction of Their Potential Antimicrobial Secretome

    Investigators discuss the potential of emerging microfluidic technologies providing new insights into the density, shape, and size of live cells, starting from heterogeneous or 3D cultured samples.
    [Antibiotics]

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    Biomechanical and Biological Responses of Periodontium in Orthodontic Tooth Movement: Up-Date in a New Decade

    The authors summarize the current knowledge and explained the hypothetic theory of the mechanisms underlying orthodontic tooth movement through classifying the whole biomechanical events into four steps and introduced the developments of current study models and clinical applications.
    [International Journal of Oral Science]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    TRACON Pharmaceuticals Announces Orphan Drug Designation For Envafolimab In Soft Tissue Sarcoma

    TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation to envafolimab for the treatment of patients with soft tissue sarcoma following submission of an amended application that included Phase I clinical trial data.
    [TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc.]

    Press Release

    Trillium Therapeutics Announces Dosing of First Patient in Phase Ib/II Study of TTI-621 in Combination with Doxorubicin in Leiomyosarcoma

    Trillium Therapeutics, Inc. announced that it has dosed the first patient with TTI-621, an investigational checkpoint inhibitor of the innate immune system, in combination with doxorubicin in a Phase Ib/II study in leiomyosarcoma.
    [Trillium Therapeutics, Inc.]

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