Aging promotes pro-fibrotic matrix production and increases fibrocyte recruitment during acute lung injury
Viranuj Sueblinvong, Wendy A. Neveu, David C. Neujahr, Stephen T. Mills, Mauricio Rojas, Jesse Roman, David M. Guidot
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory Uni-versity School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory Uni-versity School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA; Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Atlanta VAMC, Decatur, GA, USA.
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Emory Uni-versity School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA; McKelvey Lung Transplantation Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
DOI: 10.4236/abb.2014.51004   PDF    HTML   XML   4,430 Downloads   6,638 Views   Citations

Abstract

Fibrotic lung diseases increase with age. Previously we determined that senescence increases tissue expression of fibronectin EDA (Fn-EDA) and decreases fibroblast expression of Thy-1, and that fibrocytes contribute to fibrosis following bleomycin-induced lung injury in mice. In this study we hypothesized that fibroblasts lacking Thy-1 expression produce an extracellular matrix that promotes fibrocyte retention and myofibroblast transdifferentiation, thereby promoting fibrogenesis. Young and old mice were treated with bleomycin intratracheally; fibrocytes in the bone marrow, blood, and lungs were quantified, and lung fibroblast Thy-1 expression was assessed. Bone marrowderived fibrocytes were cultured on matrices derived from Thy-1(+) or Thy-1(?) fibroblasts ± the pro-fibrotic cytokine TGFβ1. Older mice had more fibrocytes in their bone marrows at baseline and more fibrocytes in their lungs following bleomycin treatment. In parallel, lung fibroblasts in older mice had lower expression of Thy-1 at baseline that increased transiently 7 days after bleomycin treatment but then rapidly waned such that 14 days after bleomycin treatment Thy-1 expression was again markedly lower. Fibrocytes cultured on matrices derived from Thy-1(?) fibroblasts + TGFβ1 had increased gene expression for collagen type 1, fibronectin, Fn-EDA, and α-smooth muscle actin. In parallel, whereas the matrices derived from Thy-1(?) fibroblasts stimulated phosphorylation of Akt in cultured fibrocytes, the matrices derived from Thy-1(+) fibroblasts induced apoptosis. These findings suggest that senescence increases fibrocyte recruitment to the lung following injury and that loss of Thy-1 expression by lung fibroblasts promotes fibrocyte retention and myofibroblast transdifferentiation that renders the “aging lung” susceptible to fibrosis.

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Sueblinvong, V. , Neveu, W. , Neujahr, D. , Mills, S. , Rojas, M. , Roman, J. and Guidot, D. (2014) Aging promotes pro-fibrotic matrix production and increases fibrocyte recruitment during acute lung injury. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 5, 19-30. doi: 10.4236/abb.2014.51004.

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