Wharton’s Jelly Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Post-Myocardial Infarction Therapeutic Toolkit: An Experienced View

Muñoz-Domínguez, Noelia; Roura, Santiago; Prat-Vidal, Cristina; Vives, Joaquim

doi:10.3390/pharmaceutics13091336

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Wharton’s Jelly Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Post-Myocardial Infarction Therapeutic Toolkit: An Experienced View

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Noelia Muñoz-Domínguez

^1,†,

Santiago Roura

^2,3,4,5,†,

Cristina Prat-Vidal

^2,3,4,6,* and

Joaquim Vives

^1,7,8,*

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Servei de Teràpia Cel·lular, Banc de Sang i Teixits, Edifici Dr. Frederic Duran i Jordà, Passeig Taulat, 116, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

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ICREC Research Program, Germans Trias i Pujol Health Science Research Institute, Can Ruti Campus, 08916 Badalona, Spain

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Heart Institute (iCor), Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Carretera de Canyet s/n, 08916 Badalona, Spain

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CIBER Cardiovascular, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain

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Faculty of Medicine, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, 08500 Vic, Spain

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Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge—IDIBELL, 08907 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain

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Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Group, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron 129-139, 08035 Barcelona, Spain

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Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron 129-139, 08035 Barcelona, Spain

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Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.

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The first two authors (N.M.-D. and S.R.) contributed equally to this work.

Pharmaceutics 2021, 13(9), 1336; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13091336

Submission received: 9 July 2021 / Revised: 18 August 2021 / Accepted: 23 August 2021 / Published: 26 August 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Derived Secretome for Immunomodulation and Tissue Remodeling)

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Abstract

Outstanding progress has been achieved in developing therapeutic options for reasonably alleviating symptoms and prolonging the lifespan of patients suffering from myocardial infarction (MI). Current treatments, however, only partially address the functional recovery of post-infarcted myocardium, which is in fact the major goal for effective primary care. In this context, we largely investigated novel cell and TE tissue engineering therapeutic approaches for cardiac repair, particularly using multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) and natural extracellular matrices, from pre-clinical studies to clinical application. A further step in this field is offered by MSC-derived extracellular vesicles (EV), which are naturally released nanosized lipid bilayer-delimited particles with a key role in cell-to-cell communication. Herein, in this review, we further describe and discuss the rationale, outcomes and challenges of our evidence-based therapy approaches using Wharton’s jelly MSC and derived EV in post-MI management.

Keywords: biomanufacturing; cardiac tissue engineering; clinical translation; extracellular vesicles; mesenchymal stromal cells; myocardial infarction; Wharton’s jelly

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Muñoz-Domínguez, N.; Roura, S.; Prat-Vidal, C.; Vives, J. Wharton’s Jelly Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Post-Myocardial Infarction Therapeutic Toolkit: An Experienced View. Pharmaceutics 2021, 13, 1336. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13091336

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Muñoz-Domínguez N, Roura S, Prat-Vidal C, Vives J. Wharton’s Jelly Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Post-Myocardial Infarction Therapeutic Toolkit: An Experienced View. Pharmaceutics. 2021; 13(9):1336. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13091336

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Muñoz-Domínguez, Noelia, Santiago Roura, Cristina Prat-Vidal, and Joaquim Vives. 2021. "Wharton’s Jelly Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Post-Myocardial Infarction Therapeutic Toolkit: An Experienced View" Pharmaceutics 13, no. 9: 1336. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13091336

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Muñoz-Domínguez, N., Roura, S., Prat-Vidal, C., & Vives, J. (2021). Wharton’s Jelly Mesenchymal Stromal Cells and Derived Extracellular Vesicles as Post-Myocardial Infarction Therapeutic Toolkit: An Experienced View. Pharmaceutics, 13(9), 1336. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13091336

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