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. 2023 Feb 16;222(3):e202211044. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202211044

Table 2.

Pathological and non-pathological systems featuring mitochondrial transfer

Condition Result Reference
Pathological Lung carcinoma Rescued mitochondrial function Spees et al., 2006
Osteosarcoma Rescued mitochondrial function Cho et al., 2012
Acute lung injury Cellular protection and tissue repair Islam et al., 2012
Ischemia Preserving myocardial energetics, cell viability, and enhanced post-infarct cardiac function—protect the heart from ischemia-reperfusion injury Masuzawa et al., 2013
Allergic airway inflammation Enhanced rescue of epithelial injury Ahmad et al., 2014
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Attenuation of cigarette smoke–induced lung damage Li et al., 2014
Ischemia Cardioprotection from ischemia-reperfusion injury Cowan et al., 2016
Cerebral ischemia Amplified cell survival signals—neurorecovery Hayakawa et al., 2016
Acute respiratory distress syndrome Enhancement of phagocytic activity of lung alveolar macrophages Jackson et al., 2016a; Jackson et al., 2016b
Acute myeloid leukemia Resistance to chemotherapy Moschoi et al., 2016
Canine transmissible venereal tumor Acquisition of functional mtDNA Strakova et al., 2016, 2020
Bladder cancer Increased invasiveness Lu et al., 20178
Acute respiratory distress syndrome Anti-inflammatory and highly phagocytic macrophage phenotype resulting in amelioration of lung injury Morrison et al., 2017
PD Acquisition of functional mitochondria Rostami et al., 2017
Oxygen-glucose deprivation Restoring brain endothelial energetics and barrier integrity Hayakawa et al., 2018
Hypoxia/reoxygenation injury Attenuation of CM apoptosis Shen et al., 2018
Asthma Alleviated asthmatic inflammation Yao et al., 2018
Diabetic nephropathy Structural and functional restoration of renal proximal tubular epithelial cells Konari et al., 2019
MM Enhanced mitochondrial metabolism, protumoral effect Marlein et al., 2019
Neonatal cardiomyopathy Improvement of CM bioenergetics and viability in male rats exposed to pre-gestational diabetes Louwagie et al., 2021
Lung carcinoma Enhancement of metastatic potential during tumor progression Takenaga et al., 2021
Cerebral ischemia Increased neuronal survival and improved metabolism Tseng et al., 2021
Glioblastoma Adaptation of non-tumor astrocytes to tumor-like metabolism and hypoxia conditions Valdebenito et al., 2021
AD Increased transmitophagy of defective neuronal mitochondrial, potential alleviation of AD pathology and symptoms Lampinen et al., 2022
Non-pathological Cardiac homeostasis Preserved metabolic stability and organ function Nicolas-Avila et al., 2020
White adipose tissue homeostasis Metabolic homeostasis, impairment leads to obesity Brestoff et al., 2021
Metabolic preconditioning of the heart Cardio-protection against lipotoxic or ischemic stresses elicited by obesity Crewe et al., 2021
Wound healing Promotion of pro-angiogenic activity of MSCs via their metabolic remodeling Levoux et al., 2021