Myofibroblasts: paracrine cells important in health and disease.

By D. Powell. Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, 2000

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Role of tissue stroma in cancer cell invasion (2003, background): “Myofibroblasts provide pro-invasive signals in a combinatorial fashion, meaning that they produce several cytokines, chemokines, and inflammatory mediators [37,148] that in combination affect invasion of the cancer cells.”
Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells obtained from diverse human tissues share functional properties and gene-expression profile with CD146+ perivascular cells and fibroblasts. (2008, background): “Recently, it has been proposed that a cell continuum may exist from fibroblast to myofibroblast to mature vascular smooth muscle cells in the artery wall [80,81], and that fibroblasts, myofibroblasts, and vascular smooth muscle cells derive from a common stem cell [82].”
Dysregulation of microRNAs after myocardial infarction reveals a role of miR-29 in cardiac fibrosis (2008, background): “Phenotypically transformed fibroblast-like cells, termed myofibroblasts, are primarily responsible for fibrous tissue formation at the site of infarction (4).”
Alpha-smooth muscle actin expression upregulates fibroblast contractile activity. (2001, background): “…in closing the wound tissue, through their capacity to produce a strong contractile force (for review see Grinnell, 1994; Rønnov-Jessen et al., 1996; Powell et al., 1999; Serini and Gabbiani, 1999), possibly generated within stress fibers, similar to those present in cultured fibroblasts (Skalli…”
Identification of Circulating Fibrocytes as Precursors of Bronchial Myofibroblasts in Asthma1 (2003, methodology): “After the first 2 days of culture in presence of ET-1 or TGF- 1, fibrocytes appeared as spindle-shaped cells resembling tissue fibroblasts (17, 18) (Fig.”
Mammalian Krüppel-Like Factors in Health and Diseases (2010, background): “In cultured cardiac fibroblasts, angiotensin II increases expression of KLF5 and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-A, which controls tissue remodeling (340).”