Study of myofibroblast differentiation
monitoring the effect of extracellular vesicles / exosomes on myofibroblast differentiation in a model using TGFß as inducer of alpha smooth muscle actin in fibroblasts
application: identification of extracellular vesicles that influence myofibroblast differentiation during wound healing, fibrosis, and fibrocontractive diseases
treatment of telomerized human fibroblasts fHDF/TERT166 with transforming growth factor beta (TGFß) and induction of alpha smooth muscle actin (𝛂-SMA) expression (immunofluorescence staining, cell nuclei are counterstained with DAPI)
reduction of 𝛂-SMA upon treatment with extracellular vesicles from Wharton´s Jelly MSCs
