1. 199 EFFECTS OF REPROGRAMMING-CONDITIONED MEDIUM ON ULTRAVIOLET RAY A–DAMAGED HUMAN DERMAL FIBROBLASTS
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Soon Young Heo, Su Jin Kim, S. G. Lee, Kwang Sung Ahn, E. Lo, S. M. Park, Jee Hyun Kang, Hosup Shim, J. H. Kang, and Sung Yun Lee
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Senescence ,integumentary system ,Cell growth ,Cellular differentiation ,Reproductive technology ,Biology ,Cell biology ,Endocrinology ,Reproductive Medicine ,Apoptosis ,Immunology ,Genetics ,DNA fragmentation ,Animal Science and Zoology ,sense organs ,Induced pluripotent stem cell ,Molecular Biology ,Reprogramming ,Developmental Biology ,Biotechnology - Abstract
Ultraviolet ray A (UVA) is an electromagnetic light with a long wavelength from the sun. The penetration of UVA deep into the human dermis causes changes in cells, such as DNA fragmentation, apoptosis, and senescence, eventually leading a decline of proliferation and wound-healing ability. These changes induced by UVA exposure are similar to those seen in the process of stem cell differentiation. We postulated that the condition that reverses cellular differentiation may alleviate the UVA-induced damage in skin cells. Human dermal fibroblasts (HDF) could be reprogrammed to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). Conditioned medium (CM) was prepared during the process of iPSC reprogramming (referred to as Repro-CM). The UVA-irradiated HDF were cultured in Repro-CM for 24 h. In comparison with CM prepared from the culture of normal HDF and iPSC (referred to as HDF-CM and iPSC-CM, respectively), effects of Repro-CM on UVA-irradiated cells were investigated. Viability, wound-healing ability, apoptosis, and senescence of HDF were analysed by WST-1 assay, scratch assay, Annexin V assay, and senescence-associated β-galactosidase assay, respectively. Upon recovering from the UVA-induced damage, viability and wound-healing ability of HDF were significantly different (P
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- 2017