Aging alters the immunological response to ischemic stroke

RM Ritzel, YJ Lai, JD Crapser, AR Patel… - Acta …, 2018 - Springer
The peripheral immune system plays a critical role in aging and in the response to brain
injury. Emerging data suggest inflammatory responses are exacerbated in older animals …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing stem cells for cardiac repair: current status and new frontiers in regenerative cardiology

S Der Sarkissian, T Lévesque… - World journal of stem …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cell therapy has the potential to improve healing of ischemic heart, repopulate injured
myocardium and restore cardiac function. The tremendous hope and potential of stem cell …

Emerging roles of extracellular vesicles in cardiac repair and rejuvenation

FJ Alibhai, SW Tobin, A Yeganeh… - American Journal of …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Cell therapy has received significant attention as a therapeutic approach to restore cardiac
function after myocardial infarction. Accumulating evidence supports that beneficial effects …

Targeted myocardial delivery of GDF11 gene rejuvenates the aged mouse heart and enhances myocardial regeneration after ischemia–reperfusion injury

GQ Du, ZB Shao, J Wu, WJ Yin, SH Li, J Wu… - Basic research in …, 2017 - Springer
Ischemic cardiac injury is the main contributor to heart failure, and the regenerative capacity
of intrinsic stem cells plays an important role in tissue repair after injury. However, stem cells …

miR-10a rejuvenates aged human mesenchymal stem cells and improves heart function after myocardial infarction through KLF4

J Dong, Z Zhang, H Huang, P Mo, C Cheng… - Stem cell research & …, 2018 - Springer
Background Aging is one of the key factors that regulate the function of human bone marrow
mesenchymal stem cells (hBM-MSCs) and related changes in microRNA (miRNA) …

Enhancing myocardial repair with CardioClusters

MM Monsanto, BJ Wang, ZR Ehrenberg… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular therapy to treat heart failure is an ongoing focus of intense research, but progress
toward structural and functional recovery remains modest. Engineered augmentation of …

Delineating the relationship between immune system aging and myogenesis in muscle repair

SW Tobin, FJ Alibhai, L Wlodarek, A Yeganeh… - Aging cell, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recruited immune cells play a critical role in muscle repair, in part by interacting with local
stem cell populations to regulate muscle regeneration. How aging affects their …

CD34+ stem cells: promising roles in cardiac repair and regeneration

TB Marvasti, FJ Alibhai, RD Weisel, RK Li - Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Cell therapy has received significant attention as a novel therapeutic approach to restore
cardiac function after injury. CD34-positive (CD34+) stem cells have been investigated for …

Non-coding RNAs in cardiac regeneration: Mechanism of action and therapeutic potential

Y Wang, J Chen, DB Cowan, DZ Wang - Seminars in cell & developmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, thousands of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been discovered,
annotated, and characterized in nearly every tissue under both physiological and …

Long‐term repopulation of aged bone marrow stem cells using young Sca‐1 cells promotes aged heart rejuvenation

J Li, SH Li, J Dong, FJ Alibhai, C Zhang, ZB Shao… - Aging …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Reduced quantity and quality of stem cells in aged individuals hinders cardiac repair and
regeneration after injury. We used young bone marrow (BM) stem cell antigen 1 (Sca‐1) …