Project description:Hyaluronic acid was proposed to support soft tissue recession surgery and guided tissue regeneration. Nevertheless, the molecular mechanisms through which hyaluronic acid modulates the response of the connective tissue cells remain elusive. To elucidate the impact of hyaluronic acid on the connective tissue cells, we employed bulk RNA sequencing to unravel the changes in the genetic signature gingival fibroblasts exposed to 1.6% cross-linked hyaluronic acid and 0.2% natural hyaluronic acid hyaluronic acid. Transcriptome-wide changes were modest, even when implementing a minimum of 1.5 log2 fold-change and a significance threshold of 1.0 -log10; only a dozenth gene was differentially expressed and ranked according to the Manhattan distance. Upregulated were PLK3, SLC16A6, IL6, HBEGF, DGKE, DUSP4, PTGS2, FOXC2, ATAD2B, NFATC2, and downregulated were MMP24 and PLXNA2. RT-PCR analysis supported the impact of hyaluronic acid on increasing expression of the selected gene panel. The findings from bulk RNA sequencing suggest that gingival fibroblasts only show a weak response when exposed to hyaluronic acid.
Project description:Collagen membranes are commonly used biomaterials in clinical dentistry that can be coated with hyaluronic acid (HA). To investigate fibroblast responses, gingival fibroblasts were seeded on porcine-derived membranes originating from dermis (Mucoderm®) and pericardium (Collafleece®) —with or without lyophilized HA, followed by bulk RNA sequencing. Mucoderm® and Collafleece® elicited a significant transcriptional response compared to fibroblasts grown on tissue culture surfaces. Compared to Mucoderm®, Collafleece® increased the expression of extracellular matrix genes CCN1, CCN2, COL1A1, POSTN, SPARC, TAGLN, FBN2, CCDC80 and CREB3L1. Decreased genes included the proteases MMP3 and MMP10 but also detoxifying genes MT1E, MT2A, HMOX1, NQO1. RNA sequencing further revealed that HA coating increased IL24 in Mucoderm®, but no increasing changes was observed in Collafleece®. These data suggest that Collafleece® has a comparably stronger positive impact on extracellular matrix formation by in gingival fibroblast than Mucoderm®. The results further imply that HA coating does consistently impact fibroblast behavior.
Project description:Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) is prepared from the coagulated plasma of fractionated blood. When squeezing between two plates, PRF is separated into the solid PRF membranes and a liquid exudate, the PRF serum. The question arises regarding the extent to which the overall PRF activity remains in the membranes and what is lost in the serum. To this aim, we have exposed gingival fibroblasts to lysates prepared from PRF membranes and PRF serum, followed by bulk RNA sequencing. A total of 268 up- and 136 down-regulated genes in gingival fibroblasts exposed to PRF lysates are significantly regulated under the premise of a minimum log2 2.5-fold change and a minus log10 significance level of two, respectively. PRF serum caused 62 up- and 32 down-regulated genes when gingival fibroblasts were exposed to PRF serum, respectively. Among the 61 genes commonly up-regulated by PRF lysate and serum were CXCL1, CXCL5, CXCL6, CXCL8, IL33, and IL6 and PTGS2, STC1. PRF lysate further increased the chemokines CCL2, CCL7, CXCL2, CXCL3, and the IL1R1, IL1RL1, and IL1RN – as well as the paracrine factors IL11, LIF, IGF1, BMP2, BMP6, FGF2, CCN2/CTGF and HAS1, HAS2, HAS3. The 16 up-regulated genes by PRF serum included DKK1. Among the 122 down-regulated genes by PRF lysate were IFIT1, IFIT2, IFIT3, OSR1, OSR2. Among the 32 down-regulated genes by PRF serum were FGF18 and GDF15. Taken together, PRF lysates, compared to PRF serum, cause a more complex response of gingival fibroblasts with a chemokine with an obvious increase in chemokine expression and spectrum of paracrine factors.
Project description:Objective: 2-Hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA), one of the most common components of tooth filling materials, could diffuse throughout dentine, and in gingival and pulp cells, affecting odontoblast vitality. Design: the aim of this study was to assess the differential transcriptome modulation induced by HEMA treatment in human cultured gingival fibroblasts (HGFs) at different exposure time compared to untreated cells. Materials and methods: Gene expression profile was performed by employing a whole gene microarray approach on RNA extracted from cultured HGFs exposed to 3 mmol/l HEMA for 24 or 96 h. Differentially identified transcripts were analyzed by Ingenuity Pathways Analysis software to disclose genes biological functions. Results: Hierarchical clustering analysis of the data set originated from a total of 8 experiments showed the selective presence of two gene clusters, composed by hundreds trandcripts differentially expressed after 24-h and 96-h HEMA treatment. when compared to untreated controls. Functional analysis showed the transcripts involvement mainly in cell survival, proliferation and death, with an unbalance towards cell growth and inflammatory response. Conclusions: Data analysis showed an overall damage induced by HEMA exposure for both HGFs cultures at 24 and 96-h mainly leading to a proliferation impairement. Interestingly 24-h HEMA exposure could induce the cells to trigger repair mechanisms evidencing an early compensatory response and survive while. 96-h incubation might increase apoptosis as a consequence of the chronic damage. Gene expression profile of Human Gingival Fibroblasts (HGFs) exposed to 3mM 2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate (HEMA) for 24- and 96-h versus untreated Human Gingival Fibroblasts at 24- and 96-h. A total of 8 experiments was carried out including biological and technical replicates.
Project description:Fibroblasts are widely used cells for regenerative medicine in clinics, such as gingival or facial skin treatment. In fact, fibroblasts are considered as a mixture of various types of cells with "spindle shape" and there is no available clear marker. Gingival and dermal fibroblasts are similar in their morphology and function; however it is considered that the cultured cells retain their original characteristics depending on the origin, which may contribute to the differential therapeutic effects. For example, gingival wounds are known to heal relatively quickly with less scar formation compared with skin, which may imply their higher capability for regeneration as a therapeutic effect. The reason for this phenomenon may be partly due to characteristic differences between gingival and dermal fibroblasts including the expression of migration stimulating factor and matrix formation but these differences remain largely unknown. Recently, the characteristics of dermal fibroblasts have been reported to be different depending on body sites, such as face, trunk and plamoplantar skin. Although the expression of fibronectin and their splicing variants were known to be different between trunk and oral mucosal fibroblasts, there is still no detailed report on the functional differences between gingival and dermal fibroblasts. In this study, we investigated differential gene expression in normal gingival and dermal fibroblasts using DNA microarray to investigate the difference between the vague fibroblast-type cells from different tissue origin to achieve higher therapeutic effect in cell therapy.
Project description:Objective: 2-Hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA), one of the most common components of tooth filling materials, could diffuse throughout dentine, and in gingival and pulp cells, affecting odontoblast vitality. Design: the aim of this study was to assess the differential transcriptome modulation induced by HEMA treatment in human cultured gingival fibroblasts (HGFs) at different exposure time compared to untreated cells. Materials and methods: Gene expression profile was performed by employing a whole gene microarray approach on RNA extracted from cultured HGFs exposed to 3 mmol/l HEMA for 24 or 96 h. Differentially identified transcripts were analyzed by Ingenuity Pathways Analysis software to disclose genes biological functions. Results: Hierarchical clustering analysis of the data set originated from a total of 8 experiments showed the selective presence of two gene clusters, composed by hundreds trandcripts differentially expressed after 24-h and 96-h HEMA treatment. when compared to untreated controls. Functional analysis showed the transcripts involvement mainly in cell survival, proliferation and death, with an unbalance towards cell growth and inflammatory response. Conclusions: Data analysis showed an overall damage induced by HEMA exposure for both HGFs cultures at 24 and 96-h mainly leading to a proliferation impairement. Interestingly 24-h HEMA exposure could induce the cells to trigger repair mechanisms evidencing an early compensatory response and survive while. 96-h incubation might increase apoptosis as a consequence of the chronic damage.
Project description:Fibroblasts are widely used cells for regenerative medicine in clinics, such as gingival or facial skin treatment. In fact, fibroblasts are considered as a mixture of various types of cells with "spindle shape" and there is no available clear marker. Gingival and dermal fibroblasts are similar in their morphology and function; however it is considered that the cultured cells retain their original characteristics depending on the origin, which may contribute to the differential therapeutic effects. For example, gingival wounds are known to heal relatively quickly with less scar formation compared with skin, which may imply their higher capability for regeneration as a therapeutic effect. The reason for this phenomenon may be partly due to characteristic differences between gingival and dermal fibroblasts including the expression of migration stimulating factor and matrix formation but these differences remain largely unknown. Recently, the characteristics of dermal fibroblasts have been reported to be different depending on body sites, such as face, trunk and plamoplantar skin. Although the expression of fibronectin and their splicing variants were known to be different between trunk and oral mucosal fibroblasts, there is still no detailed report on the functional differences between gingival and dermal fibroblasts. In this study, we investigated differential gene expression in normal gingival and dermal fibroblasts using DNA microarray to investigate the difference between the vague fibroblast-type cells from different tissue origin to achieve higher therapeutic effect in cell therapy. Gingival and dermal tissues were collected from healthy patients. After successive stages primary culture and RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays (Genome Focus Array). Dermal and gingival tissues were obtained from healthy volunteers (8 cases for dermal tissue; 6 females, 2 males , average age 48 and 8 cases for buccal gingival tissue; 6 females, 2 males, average age 43) whose informed consent was obtained according to a protocol approved by the ethics committee of Nagoya University Hospital. After enzymatic digestion, tissues were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) containing 10% fetal bovine serum at 37°C in the presence of 5% CO2 for about 4 weeks as reported previously. Total mRNAs were extracted from cells between passages 4-5 by Trizol reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and were applied to Human Focus Arrays (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA) for microarray analysis according to the manufacturer's protocol (http://www.affymetrix.com/support/technical/manuals.affx). The gene expression data were analyzed by Arrayassist (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA). Briefly, 8,500 probes on the array, normalization and scaling (MAS5), flag-positive gene selection, unpaired t-test, and CV selection (<20) resulted in 5,284 genes to analyze. GO (Gene ontology) analysis was performed using the software default settings to find the gene group related to the same category of biological function by searching common key terms that were reported for each gene.
Project description:Analysis of response to leptin and IL-1β in gingival fibroblasts at the gene expression level. The hypothesis tested in the present study was that leptin and IL-1β synergistically effect the phenotype of gingival fibroblasts. Results provide important information regarding the response of gingival fibroblasts to leptin and IL-1β, such as specific inflammatory genes that were up- or down-regulated.