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Purinergic signaling in early inflammatory events of the foreign body response: modulating extracellular ATP as an enabling technology for engineered implants and tissues.

Abstract
Purinergic signaling is a ubiquitous and vital aspect of mammalian biology in which purines--mainly adenosine triphosphate (ATP)--are released from cells through loss of membrane integrity (cell death), exocytosis, or transport/diffusion across membrane channels, and exert paracrine or autocrine signaling effects through three subclasses of well-characterized receptors: the P1 adenosine receptors, the P2X ionotropic nucleotide receptors, and the P2Y metabotropic receptors. ATP and its metabolites are released by damaged and stressed cells in injured tissues. The early events of wound healing, hemostasis, and inflammation are highly regulated by these signals through activation of purinergic receptors on platelets and neutrophils. Recent data have demonstrated that ATP signaling is of particular importance to targeting leukocytes to sites of injury. This is particularly relevant to the subject of implanted medical devices, engineered tissues, and grafts as all these technologies elicit a wound healing response with varying degrees of encapsulation, rejection, extrusion, or destruction of the tissue or device. Here, we review the biology of purinergic signaling and focus on ATP release and response mechanisms that pertain to the early inflammatory phase of wound healing. Finally, therapeutic options are explored, including a new class of peptidomimetic drugs based on the ATP-conductive channel connexin43.
AuthorsJ Matthew Rhett, Stephen A Fann, Michael J Yost
JournalTissue engineering. Part B, Reviews (Tissue Eng Part B Rev) Vol. 20 Issue 5 Pg. 392-402 (Oct 2014) ISSN: 1937-3376 [Electronic] United States
PMID24279914 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Review)
Chemical References
  • Receptors, Purinergic
  • Adenosine Triphosphate
Topics
  • Adenosine Triphosphate (metabolism)
  • Animals
  • Extracellular Space (metabolism)
  • Foreign-Body Reaction (metabolism)
  • Humans
  • Inflammation (pathology)
  • Prostheses and Implants
  • Receptors, Purinergic (metabolism)
  • Signal Transduction
  • Tissue Engineering (methods)

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