Skin aging is caused by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Intrinsic aging is called natural aging and occurs over time, and extrinsic aging is caused by environmental factors such as sunlight, active oxygen etc. The aging skin commonly became thinner a...
Skin aging is caused by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Intrinsic aging is called natural aging and occurs over time, and extrinsic aging is caused by environmental factors such as sunlight, active oxygen etc. The aging skin commonly became thinner and has less elastic and collagen fibers. Human dermal fibroblast (HDF) is a major cell type of the dermis and has been used as a model cell type to investigate skin aging in vitro study. In recent research, stem cells and their secretomes have been applied to skin regeneration. Stem cells secrete numerous growth factors and cytokines, and those are transmitted by the exosomes, a kind of secreted extracellular vesicles. In previous studies, we found that induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived exosomes increased proliferation and migration of HDFs and increased collagen type I gene expression. However, the amount of exosome isolated from the human iPSC-conditioned medium (CM) was quite small, and consequently it took a long time to obtain a large amount of medium. In this study, we prepared exosome-mimetic nanovesicles (EMNs) from human iPSCs using a method of extruding cells into nano-sized particles by passing the cells several times through filters of a smaller size than the cells. The size and concentration of EMNs were measured using nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA), then WST-8 analysis revealed that cell proliferation was increased in a dose-dependent manner by treatment with EMNs. Scratch wound and transwell assay demonstrated that EMNs promoted migration as well as proliferation of senescent HDFs. We were able to obtain more EMNs from the cells compared to naturally secreted exosomes and EMNs functioned like exosome. These studies indicate that EMNs can ameliorate skin aging and were expected to provide a technical advance toward the clinical application of EMNs in skin aging.