Percutaneous Intracoronary Delivery of Plasma Extracellular Vesicles Protects the Myocardium against Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Canis

Hongyun Wang, Rusitanmujiang Maimaitiaili, Jianhua Yao, Yuling Xie, Sujing Qiang, Fan Hu, Xiang Li, Chao Shi, Peng Jia, Haotian Yang, Meng Wei, Juan Zhao, Zheng Zhou, Jinxin Xie, Jizong Jiang, Haidong Cai, Joost P.G. Sluijter, Yawei Xu, Yi Zhang, Junjie Xiao*

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Abstract

Plasma circulating extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been utilized as a potential therapeutic strategy to treat ischemic disease through intramyocardial injection (efficient but invasive) or tail vein injection (noninvasive but low cardiac retention). An effective and noninvasive delivery of EVs for future clinical use is necessary. The large animal (canine) model was complemented with a murine ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) model, as well as H9 human embryonic stem cell-induced cardiomyocytes or neonatal rat cardiomyocytes to investigate the effective delivery method and the role of plasma EVs in the IRI model. We further determine the crucial molecule within EVs that confers the cardioprotective role in vivo and in vitro and investigate the efficiency of CHP (cardiac homing peptide)-linked EVs in alleviating IRI. D-SPECT imaging showed that percutaneous intracoronary delivery of EVs reduced infarct extent in dogs. CHP-EVs further reduced IRI-induced cardiomyocyte apoptosis in mice and neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. Mechanistically, administration of EVs by percutaneous intracoronary delivery (in dog) and myocardial injection (in mice) just before reperfusion reduced infarct size of IRI by increasing miR-486 levels. miR-486-deleted EVs exacerbated oxygen-glucose deprivation/reoxygenation-induced human embryonic stem cell-induced cardiomyocytes and neonatal rat cardiomyocyte apoptosis. EV-miR-486 inhibited the PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten) expression and then promoted AKT (protein kinase B) activation in human embryonic stem cell-induced cardiomyocytes and neonatal rat cardiomyocytes. In conclusion, plasma-derived EVs convey miR-486 to the myocardium and attenuated IRI-induced infarction and cardiomyocyte apoptosis. CHP strategy was effective to improve cardiac retention of EVs in mice (in vivo) and dogs (ex vivo).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1541-1554
Number of pages14
JournalHypertension
Volume78
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2021

Keywords

  • extracellular vesicles
  • infarction
  • microRNA
  • plasma
  • reperfusion injury

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