Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Identification of a physiologic vasculogenic fibroblast state to achieve tissue repair

  • Durba Pal,
  • Subhadip Ghatak,
  • Kanhaiya Singh,
  • Ahmed Safwat Abouhashem,
  • Manishekhar Kumar,
  • Mohamed S El Masry,
  • Sujit K. Mohanty,
  • Ravichand Palakurti,
  • Yashika Rustagi,
  • Saba Tabasum,
  • Dolly K. Khona,
  • Savita Khanna,
  • Sedat Kacar,
  • Rajneesh Srivastava,
  • Pramod Bhasme,
  • Sumit S. Verma,
  • Edward Hernandez,
  • Anu Sharma,
  • Diamond Reese,
  • Priyanka Verma,
  • Nandini Ghosh,
  • Mahadeo Gorain,
  • Jun Wan,
  • Sheng Liu,
  • Yunlong Liu,
  • Natalia Higuita Castro,
  • Surya C. Gnyawali,
  • William Lawrence,
  • Jordan Moore,
  • Daniel Gallego Perez,
  • Sashwati Roy,
  • Mervin C. Yoder,
  • Chandan K. Sen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36665-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Here, the authors report on the discovery of physiological vasculogenic fibroblasts capable of forming functional blood vessels. In vivo tissue reprogramming triggered by topical tissue nanotransfection (TNT) of a single anti-miR-200b oligonucleotide achieved therapeutic tissue vascularization.