Paper
Cyclosporin A and hydroxycyclosporine (M-17) affect the secretory phenotype of human gingival fibroblasts.
Published Feb 27, 2007 · A. Mariotti, T. Hassell, D. Jacobs
Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology
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Abstract
The responsiveness of human gingival fibroblast populations to cyclosporin A (CsA) and its principal metabolite, hydroxycyclosporine (M17), was evaluated in cell culture. Gingival fibroblasts exhibited a dose-dependent accumulation and bell-shaped distribution of dansylated CsA. A 100-fold excess of non-labeled CsA prevented the accumulation of the fluorescent probe in the fibroblasts. Both CsA (400 ng/ml) and M17 (100 ng/ml) stimulated mean gingival fibroblast cell number to 23.2% and 36.7% above controls, and reduced mean collagen production by 37.7% and 37.4% below controls, respectively; however, neither CsA nor M17 affected mean protein production in comparison to control cultures. Analyses of responses to CsA and M17 by ligand-accumulating and non-accumulating fibroblasts sorted out from the parent cultures did not provide consistent interstrain responses either by cells representing the upper quartile of fluorescence or cells representing the bottom quartiles of fluorescence. These data demonstrate that CsA is accumulated by gingival fibroblasts and that CsA and M17 are potent modulators of gingival fibroblast phenotype.
Cyclosporin A and its metabolite hydroxycyclosporine (M17) are potent modulators of gingival fibroblast phenotype, affecting cell number and collagen production without affecting protein production.
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