Adam Russell-Hallinan, Narainrit Karuna, Frank Lezoualc'h, Giuseppe Matullo, Hana Baker, Monique Bernard, Yvan Devaux, Lina Badimon, Gemma Vilahur, Jennifer Rieusset, Geneviève A. Derumeaux, Chris J. Watson
An increasing number of individuals are at high risk of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and its cardiovascular (CV) complications, which challenges healthcare systems with an increased risk of developing CV diseases. Patients with T2DM exhibit a unique cardiac phenotype termed diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM). DCM usually involves complex and multifactorial pathogenic drivers, including myocardial inflammation, fibrosis, hypertrophy, and early diastolic dysfunction, which potentially evolve into systolic dysfunction and heart failure. There is a lack of effective treatments for DCM on the basis of the complexity of the disease per se and poor understanding of the mechanisms behind disease development and progression. Despite the considerable research attention on the onset of DCM development and progression, understanding of the full spectrum of pathogenic mechanisms has not yet been fully deciphered. Epigenetic alterations, including DNA methylation, histone modifications, bromodomain extra-terminal (BET)-containing reader proteins, and RNA-based mechanisms (e.g., miRs, lncRNAs, circRNA), are significantly associated with the initiation and evolution of DCM, particularly in the early stage. In this review, we provide insights into the evidence of epigenetic alterations related to DCM development and progression characteristics. Furthermore, the uniqueness of epigenetic changes in DCM in specific cell types within diabetic hearts is discussed. We also review epigenetic cooperation in the context of DCM development and epigenetic biomarkers related to DCM progression. With recent advancements in technology, epitranscriptomics-related to DCM has been uniquely discussed. Finally, this review may provide new avenues for potential implications for future research and the discovery of novel treatment targets for preventing the onset and progression of DCM.
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The restricted availability of cadaveric isolated human donor islets sharply limits progress in clinical trials of islet cell transplantation. Furthermore, the host's general pharmacologic immunosuppression is invariably needed to grant survival and function of the human islet grafts. The former mandates validation of new sources of insulin producing cells. The latter requires new strategies to circumvent use of general immunosuppressive agents. A possible solution to these problems could consist using of human stem cells, whose availability is indefinite, that are suitable for both, differentiation into endocrine cell phenotypes, and genetic manipulations to alter immunogenicity. Pluripotent human stem cells, either embryonic (ESCs), derived from the blastocyst, or those originating from adult somatic cells, artificially induced to pluripotency (iPSCs), or finally, multipotent human adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may be considered. MSCs are more difficult to trans-differentiate into Beta-like cells, but they hold powerful immunoregulatory properties, and do not pose ethical problems. Both ESCs and iPSCs show pro's and con's, in terms of ethical acceptance (ESCs), and technical feasibility (iPSCs), with the pending immune problems, that might be attenuated by gene editing manoeuvres to render the cells ‘immune evasive’. Early pilot clinical trials with either ESCs or iPSCs in immunosuppressed T1D patients showed that hyperglycemia can be reversed, although challenges remain.
{"title":"Developing Stem Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus","authors":"Riccardo Calafiore","doi":"10.1002/dmrr.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/dmrr.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The restricted availability of cadaveric isolated human donor islets sharply limits progress in clinical trials of islet cell transplantation. Furthermore, the host's general pharmacologic immunosuppression is invariably needed to grant survival and function of the human islet grafts. The former mandates validation of new sources of insulin producing cells. The latter requires new strategies to circumvent use of general immunosuppressive agents. A possible solution to these problems could consist using of human stem cells, whose availability is indefinite, that are suitable for both, differentiation into endocrine cell phenotypes, and genetic manipulations to alter immunogenicity. Pluripotent human stem cells, either embryonic (ESCs), derived from the blastocyst, or those originating from adult somatic cells, artificially induced to pluripotency (iPSCs), or finally, multipotent human adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may be considered. MSCs are more difficult to trans-differentiate into Beta-like cells, but they hold powerful immunoregulatory properties, and do not pose ethical problems. Both ESCs and iPSCs show pro's and con's, in terms of ethical acceptance (ESCs), and technical feasibility (iPSCs), with the pending immune problems, that might be attenuated by gene editing manoeuvres to render the cells ‘immune evasive’. Early pilot clinical trials with either ESCs or iPSCs in immunosuppressed T1D patients showed that hyperglycemia can be reversed, although challenges remain.</p>","PeriodicalId":11335,"journal":{"name":"Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews","volume":"41 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/dmrr.70079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144853812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}