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Journal of Clinical Immunology
Published in: Journal of Clinical Immunology 4/2010

01-07-2010

Human Fibroblasts Share Immunosuppressive Properties with Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Authors: Sandrine Cappellesso-Fleury, Bénédicte Puissant-Lubrano, Pol-André Apoil, Matthias Titeux, Peter Winterton, Louis Casteilla, Philippe Bourin, Antoine Blancher

Published in: Journal of Clinical Immunology | Issue 4/2010

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Abstract

Introduction

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) and adipose tissue-derived stem cells share immunosuppressive capacities, suggesting that the latter could be a general property of stromal cells.

Methods

To check this hypothesis, we compared human BM-MSC and fibroblasts for their in vitro multi-potentiality, expandability and their immunomodulatory properties under normalized optimized culture conditions.

Results

We report that, unlike BM-MSCs, fibroblasts cannot differentiate in vitro into adipocytes and osteoblasts and differ from BM-MSCs by the expression of membrane CD106, CD10 and CD26 and by the expression of collagen VII mRNA. Like BM-MSCs, fibroblasts are unable to provoke in vitro allogeneic reactions, but strongly suppress lymphocyte proliferation induced by allogeneic mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) or mitogens. We show that fibroblasts' immunosuppressive capacity is independent from prostaglandin E2, IL-10 and the tryptophan catabolising enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase and is not abrogated after the depletion of CD8+ T lymphocytes, NK cells and monocytes.

Conclusion

Finally, fibroblasts and BM-MSCs act at an early stage through blockage of lymphocyte activation, as demonstrated by down-regulation of GZMB (granzyme B) and IL2RA (CD25) expression.
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Metadata
Title
Human Fibroblasts Share Immunosuppressive Properties with Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Authors
Sandrine Cappellesso-Fleury
Bénédicte Puissant-Lubrano
Pol-André Apoil
Matthias Titeux
Peter Winterton
Louis Casteilla
Philippe Bourin
Antoine Blancher
Publication date
01-07-2010
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Clinical Immunology / Issue 4/2010
Print ISSN: 0271-9142
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2592
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-010-9415-4

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