A preliminary study on the mechanism of botulinum toxin type A in preventing the proliferation of keloid fibroblast cells / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effects of different concentrations of botulinum toxin type A on hypertrophic scar fi-broblasts ,and to explore the molecular mechanism of botulinum toxin type A in the treatment of scar and prevention of postopera-tive scar hyperplasia .Methods Different concentrations of botulinum toxin A (0 .01 ,0 .1 ,1 U/L and 10 U/L) were used on hyper-trophic scar fibroblasts for 24 hours ,to observe the changes of cell adhesion and cytoskeleton under laser confocal microscopy .MTT and flow cytometry were used to detect the proliferation ,apoptosis and cycle of change ,at the same time real time fluorescence quantitative PCR and Western blot were conducted to detected the expression of TGF-β,matrix metalloproteinase MMP-1 ,MMP-2 and MMP-9 gene and protein expression changes .Results With the increase of botulinum toxin A dose ,the number of cell adhesion and cytoskeletal fluorescence intensity decreased ,cell proliferation ability decreased and mainly blocked at G0-G1 phase ,and the ap-optosis also increased with the dose increased .The results of qPCR and Western blot showed that MMP-1 and MMP-9 gene and protein were highly expressed with the increase of botulinum toxin A dose ,while TGF-βand MMP-9 showed low expression .Con-clusion Botulinum toxin A can inhibit the proliferation of hypertrophic scar fibroblasts and inhibit the expression of MMP-1 and MMP-2 ,which can inhibit scar formation .It plays a positive role in the treatment of scar .