Development of a cellular assay as a personalized model for testing chronic wound therapeutics

Petra Doerfler,Nicole Schoefmann, Gabriela Cabral, Wolfgang Bauer, Martin C. Berli,Barbara Binder,Carina Borst, Sander Botter,Lars E. French, Tobias Goerge,Juerg Hafner,Daniela Hartmann, Annette Høgh,Wolfram Hoetzenecker,Judith C.J. Holzer-Geissler,Lars P. Kamolz,Katrin Kofler,Thomas Luger,Sebastian P. Nischwitz, Michael Popovits

Journal of Investigative Dermatology(2024)

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Abstract
Exudates of non-healing wounds contain drivers of pathogenicity. We utilized >800 exudates from non-healing and healing wounds of diverse etiologies, collected by three different methods, to develop a wound-specific, cell-based functional biomarker assay. Human dermal fibroblast proliferation served as readout to a) to differentiate between healing and non-healing wounds, b) follow the healing process of individual patients, and c) assess the effects of therapeutics for chronic wounds ex vivo. We observed a strong correlation between wound chronicity and inhibitory effects of individual exudates on fibroblast proliferation, with good diagnostic sensitivity (76-90%, depending on the sample collection method). Transition of a clinically non-healing to a healing phenotype restored fibroblast proliferation and extracellular matrix formation while reducing inflammatory cytokine production. Transcriptional analysis of fibroblasts exposed to ex vivo non-healing wound exudates revealed an induction of inflammatory cytokine- and chemokine pathways and the unfolded protein response, indicating that these changes may contribute to the pathology of non-healing wounds. Testing the wound therapeutics platelet derived growth factor and silver sulfadiazine yielded responses in line with clinical experience and indicate the usefulness of the assay to search for and profile new therapeutics.
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wound exudate,wound healing,biomarker,functional assay,transcriptomics
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