title: Systemic Wound Healing Associated with local sub-Cutaneous Mechanical Stimulation.
abstract: Degeneration is a hallmark of autoimmune diseases, whose incidence grows worldwide. Current therapies attempt to control the immune response to limit degeneration, commonly promoting immunodepression. Differently, mechanical stimulation is known to trigger healing (regeneration) and it has recently been proposed locally for its therapeutic potential on severely injured areas. As the early stages of healing consist of altered intra- and inter-cellular fluxes of soluble molecules, we explored the potential of this early signal to spread, over time, beyond the stimulation district and become systemic, to impact on distributed or otherwise unreachable injured areas. We report in a model of arthritis in rats how stimulations delivered in the subcutaneous dorsal tissue result, over time, in the control and healing of the degeneration of the paws' joints, concomitantly with the systemic activation of wound healing phenomena in blood and in correlation with a more eubiotic microbiome in the gut intestinal district.
authors.affiliation: Group of Clinical Genomic Networks, Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai 200031, P.R. China.|CNR IAC "Mauro Picone", Via dei Taurini 19 00185-Roma, Italy.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nardini
authors.affiliation: Group of Clinical Genomic Networks, Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai 200031, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Devescovi
authors.affiliation: Group of Clinical Genomic Networks, Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai 200031, P.R. China.|Bioinformatics Platform, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, CAS, Shanghai 200031, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Yuanhua
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Group of Clinical Genomic Networks, Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai 200031, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Group of Clinical Genomic Networks, Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai 200031, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Youtao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Group of Clinical Genomic Networks, Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai 200031, P.R. China.|NORSAS consultancy limited, Norwich (NR12 8QP), Norfolk, UK.
authors.forename: Jennifer E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Dent
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001168:Arthritis / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D010812:Physical Stimulation; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014945:Wound Healing