Attenuating Spinal Cord Injury by Conditioned Medium from Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Autor: Henrich Cheng, Fan Wei Tseng, Dann Ying Liou, Ching-Feng Weng, Wen Cheng Huang, Ming Chao Huang, Yan Ru Lin, May Jywan Tsai
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Clinical Medicine
Volume 8
Issue 1
Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol 8, Iss 1, p 23 (2018)
ISSN: 2077-0383
DOI: 10.3390/jcm8010023
Popis: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating neurological condition and might even result in death. However, current treatments are not sufficient to repair such damage. Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSC) are ideal transplantable cells which have been shown to modulate the injury cascade of SCI mostly through paracrine effects. The present study investigates whether systemic administration of conditioned medium from MSCs (MSCcm) has the potential to be efficacious as an alternative to cell-based therapy for SCI. In neuron-glial cultures, MSC coculture effectively promoted neuronal connection and reduced oxygen glucose deprivation-induced cell damage. The protection was elicited even if neuron-glial culture was used to expose MSCcm, suggesting the effects possibly from released fractions of MSC. In vivo, intravenous administration of MSCcm to SCI rats significantly improved behavioral recovery from spinal cord injury, and there were increased densities of axons in the lesion site of MSCcm-treated rats compared to SCI rats. At early days postinjury, MSCcm treatment upregulated the protein levels of Olig 2 and HSP70 and also increased autophage-related proteins in the injured spinal cords. Together, these findings suggest that MSCcm treatment promotes spinal cord repair and functional recovery, possibly via activation of autophagy and enhancement of survival-related proteins.
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