The Dose of Intravenously Transplanted Bone Marrow Stromal Cells Determines the Therapeutic Effect on Vascular Remodeling in a Rat Model of Ischemic Stroke

Autor: Pingyi Xu, Qianmin Yao, Gongxiong Wu, Zijing Liang, Yubao Xie, Junmin Lin, Bin He, Shaoming Li, Zhihua Yang
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Male
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology
Basic fibroblast growth factor
Blotting
Western

Biomedical Engineering
Ischemia
lcsh:Medicine
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Vascular Remodeling
Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation
Rats
Sprague-Dawley

03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Animals
Stroke
Transplantation
business.industry
Cerebral infarction
Mesenchymal stem cell
lcsh:R
Brain
Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Cell Biology
Cerebral Infarction
medicine.disease
Surgery
Rats
Vascular endothelial growth factor
Vascular endothelial growth factor A
Disease Models
Animal

030104 developmental biology
chemistry
Microscopy
Fluorescence

Fibroblast Growth Factor 2
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Cell Transplantation, Vol 25 (2016)
ISSN: 1555-3892
Popis: The therapeutic benefits of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell (BM-MSC) transplantation for ischemic stroke have been extensively demonstrated. However, studies on the optimal cell dose for intravenous administration are still limited. This study aimed to determine an appropriate cell dose for BM-MSC intravenous transplantation and to investigate the effect of cell dose on vascular remodeling in a rat model of ischemic stroke. BM-MSCs at doses of 5 × 10 4 (low-dose group), 5 × 10 5 (medium-dose group), and 2 × 10 6 (high-dose group) were intravenously injected into rats at 72 h after ischemia. The therapeutic efficacy of BM-MSCs was evaluated by measuring infarct volume, vascular diameters, capillary area in the peri-infarct zone, level of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in the peri-infarct zone, and serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) level at 7 days after ischemia. Compared with the low-dose and control groups, medium-dose and high-dose BM-MSC transplantation significantly reduced the volume of the infarct area, enlarged the diameters of pial vessels and the basilar artery, and increased the capillary area in the peri-infarct zone of the cerebral cortex. Furthermore, transplanted BM-MSCs elevated the expressions of bFGF in the peri-infarct zone and the serum VEGF level. Administration of 5 × 10 5 BM-MSCs is an appropriate cell dose for ischemic stroke therapy in rats. These findings may be helpful for designing future clinical trials.
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