• 3, 3′, 5-triiodo-L-thyronine increases in vitro chondrogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells from human umbilical cord stroma through SRC2 

      Fernández-Pernas, Pablo; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Lesende-Rodríguez, Iván; Mateos, Jesús; Fuente, Alexandre de la; Fuentes Boquete, Isaac Manuel; De-Toro, Javier; Blanco García, Francisco J; Arufe, M.C. (Wiley, 2016-07-08)
      [Abstract] Our group focuses on the study of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from human umbilical cord stroma or Warthońs jelly and their directed differentiation toward chondrocyte-like cells capable of regenerating damaged ...
    • Action Mechanisms of Small Extracellular Vesicles in Inflammaging [Review] 

      Mato Basalo, Rocío; Lucio-Gallego, Sergio; Alarcón-Veleiro, Carmen; Sacristán-Santos, Marta; Miranda Quintana, María del Pilar; Morente López, Miriam; De-Toro, Javier; Silva-Fernández, Lucía; González-Rodríguez, Alba; Arufe, M.C.; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio (MDPI, 2022-04-06)
      [Abstract] The accumulation process of proinflammatory components in the body due to aging influences intercellular communication and is known as inflammaging. This biological mechanism relates the development of inflammation ...
    • Biodistribution and Immunogenicity of Allogeneic Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Rat Model of Intraarticular Chondrocyte Xenotransplantation 

      Marquina, Maribel; Collado, Javier A.; Pérez-Cruz, Magdiel; Fernández-Pernas, Pablo; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Blanco García, Francisco J; Máñez, Rafael; Arufe, M.C.; Costa, Cristina (Frontiers, 2017-11-06)
      [Abstract] Xenogeneic chondrocytes and allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are considered a potential source of cells for articular cartilage repair. We here assessed the immune response triggered by xenogeneic ...
    • Classical and nonclassical intercellular communication in senescence and ageing 

      Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; O'Loghlen, Ana (Cell Press, 2020-06-03)
      [Abstract] Intercellular communication refers to the different ways through which cells communicate with each other and transfer a variety of messages. These communication methods involve a number of different processes ...
    • Development of new non-viral systems for genetic modification of senescent cells 

      López-Seijas, Junquera; Miranda-Balbuena, Diego; Iglesias-Fente, Alba; Sacristán-Santos, Marta; Carballo-Pedrares, Natalia; Arufe, M.C.; Rey-Rico, Ana; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio (Cell Press, 2023-03-20)
      [Abstract] Senescence is a process characterized by a prolonged irreversible cell-cycle arrest. The accumulation of senescent cells in tissues is related to aging and to the development of age-related diseases. Recently, ...
    • Effect of Age on Pro-Inflammatory miRNAs Contained in Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles 

      Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Lesende-Rodríguez, Iván; Fernández-Pernas, Pablo; Sangiao-Alvarellos, Susana; Monserrat, Lorenzo; Arntz, O.J.; Van de Loo, F.J.; Mateos, Jesús; Arufe, M.C. (Nature, 2017-03-06)
      [Abstract] Stem cells possess significant age-dependent differences in their immune-response profile. These differences were analysed by Next-Generation Sequencing of six age groups from bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. ...
    • Effect of Aging on Behaviour of Mesenchymal Stem Cells 

      Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Morente-López, Miriam; Arufe, M.C. (Baishideng Publishing Group Inc., 2019-06-26)
      [Abstract] Organs whose source is the mesoderm lineage contain a subpopulation of stem cells that are able to differentiate among mesodermal derivatives (chondrocytes, osteocytes, adipocytes). This subpopulation of adult ...
    • Effect of miR-21 in mesenchymal stem cells-derived extracellular vesicles behavior 

      Morente-López, Miriam; Mato-Basalo, Rocío; Lucio-Gallego, Sergio; Gil, Concha; Carrera, Mónica; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Arufe, M.C. (BioMed Central, 2023-12-21)
      [Abstract] Background: A challenging new branch of research related to aging-associated diseases is the identification of miRNAs capable of modulating the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) which characterizes ...
    • Extracellular Vesicles as Potential Tools for Regenerative Therapy 

      Rodríguez-Navarro, José Antonio; Pascual-Guerra, Jorge; Sacristán, Silvia; Nogales, Maria del Carmen; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio (Taylor & Francis Online, 2020-09-08)
      [Abstract] Small extracellular vesicles released by fibroblasts from young human donors diminish lipid peroxidation in senescent cells and in different old mice organs due to their enrichment in Glutathione-S-transferase Mu ...
    • Genome Wide CRISPR/Cas9 Screen Identifies the Coagulation Factor IX (F9) as a Regulator of Senescence 

      Carpintero-Fernández, Paula; Borghesan, Michela; Eleftheriadou, Olga; Pan-Castillo, Belén; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Mitchell, Tom P.; Yuste, Alejandro; Ogrunc, Muge; Nightingale, Thomas D.; Mayán, María; O'Loghlen, Ana (Nature, 2022-02-19)
      [Abstract] During this last decade, the development of prosenescence therapies has become an attractive strategy as cellular senescence acts as a barrier against tumour progression. In this context, CDK4/6 inhibitors induce ...
    • High-Throughput Screen Detects Calcium Signaling Dysfunction in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome 

      Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Morente López, Miriam; De-Toro, Javier; Arufe, M.C. (MDPI, 2021-07-07)
      [Abstract] Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a deadly childhood disorder, which is considered a very rare disease. It is caused by an autosomal dominant mutation on the LMNA gene, and it is characterized by ...
    • Influence of Age on Rat Bone-Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Potential 

      Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Fernández-Pernas, Pablo; Fuentes Boquete, Isaac Manuel; De-Toro, Javier; Oreiro, Natividad; Sangiao-Alvarellos, Susana; Mateos, Jesús; Arufe, M.C. (Nature, 2015-11-19)
      [Abstract] Mesenchymal stem cells promising role in cell-based therapies and tissue engineering appears to be limited due to a decline of their regenerative potential with increasing donor age. Six age groups from bone ...
    • Influence of aging on proliferation, pluripotency, immunogenic profiles from bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells 

      Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio (2016)
      [Resumen] Las células madre mesenquimales (CMMs) tiene una gran relevancia en la regeneración de tejidos mesenquimales como hueso y cartílago. El prometedor papel de las CMMs en terapia celular e ingeniería tisular parece ...
    • Influence of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Vitro and their Role in Ageing 

      Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Morente-López, Miriam; Sánchez-Dopico, María José; Arntz, O.J.; Van de Loo, F.J.; De-Toro, Javier; Arufe, M.C. (Springer Nature, 2020-01-03)
      [Abstract] Introduction: This study assessed whether mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-derived extracellular vesicles influenced ageing and pluripotency markers in cell cultures where they are added. Methods: MSC-derived ...
    • iTRAQ-Based Analysis of Progerin Expression Reveals Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Reactive Oxygen Species Accumulation and Altered Proteostasis 

      Mateos, Jesús; Landeira-Abia, Arancha; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Fernández-Pernas, Pablo; Lesende-Rodríguez, Iván; Fernández-Puente, Patricia; Fernández-Moreno, Mercedes; Delmiro, Aitor; Martín, Miguel A.; Blanco García, Francisco J; Arufe, M.C. (BioMed Central, 2015-06-12)
      [Abstract] Introduction. Nuclear accumulation of a mutant form of the nuclear protein Lamin-A, called Progerin (PG) or Lamin AΔ50, occurs in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) or Progeria, an accelerated aging ...
    • Next-Generation Sequencing and Quantitative Proteomics of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome-Derived Cells Point to a Role of Nucleotide Metabolism in Premature Aging 

      Mateos, Jesús; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Morente-López, Miriam; Lesende-Rodríguez, Iván; Monserrat, Lorenzo; Ódena, María A.; Oliveira, Eliandre de; De-Toro, Javier; Arufe, M.C. (PLOS, 2018-10-31)
      [Abstract] Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a very rare fatal disease characterized for accelerated aging. Although the causal agent, a point mutation in LMNA gene, was identified more than a decade ago, the ...
    • NF-κB/IKK Activation by Small Extracellular Vesicles Within the SASP 

      Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; O'Loghlen, Ana (Wiley, 2021-06-29)
      [Abstract] Cellular senescence plays an important role in different biological and pathological conditions. Senescent cells communicate with their microenvironment through a plethora of soluble factors, metalloproteases ...
    • Proteomic Applications in the Study of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells 

      Mateos, Jesús; Arufe, M.C.; Fernández-Pernas, Pablo; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Blanco García, Francisco J (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014-02-07)
      Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are undifferentiated cells with an unlimited capacity for self-renewal and able to differentiate towards specific lineages under appropriate conditions. MSCs are, a priori, a good target for ...
    • Small Extracellular Vesicles Have GST Activity and Ameliorate Senescence-Related Tissue Damage 

      Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio; Rodríguez-Navarro, José Antonio; O’Loghlen, Ana (Elsevier, 2020-07-07)
      [Abstract] Aging is a process of cellular and tissue dysfunction characterized by different hallmarks, including cellular senescence. However, there is proof that certain features of aging and senescence can be ameliorated. ...
    • Study of ferroptosis transmission by small extracellular vesicles in epithelial ovarian cancer cells 

      Alarcón-Veleiro, Carmen; Mato-Basalo, Rocío; Lucio-Gallego, Sergio; Vidal-Pampín, Andrea; Quindós-Varela, María; Al-Qatarneh, Thamer; Berrecoso, Germán; Vizoso-Vázquez, Ángel; Arufe, M.C.; Fafián Labora, Juan Antonio (MDPI, 2023-01-12)
      [Abstract] Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most lethal gynecological cancer. The current treatment for EOC involves surgical debulking of the tumors followed by a combination of chemotherapy. While most patients ...