Analysis of host-mediated repair mechanisms after human CNS-stem cell transplantation for spinal cord injury: correlation of engraftment with recovery.
Analysis of host-mediated repair mechanisms after human CNS-stem cell transplantation for spinal cord injury: correlation of engraftment with recovery.
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10.1371/journal.pone.0005871
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发表时间:
2009-06-11
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Cummings BJ
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作者:
Hooshmand MJ;Sontag CJ;Uchida N;Tamaki S;Anderson AJ;Cummings BJ
Human central nervous system-stem cells grown as neurospheres (hCNS-SCns) self-renew, are multipotent, and have potential therapeutic applications following trauma to the spinal cord. We have previously shown locomotor recovery in immunodeficient mice that received a moderate contusion spinal cord injury (SCI) and hCNS-SCns transplantation 9 days post-injury (dpi). Engrafted hCNS-SCns exhibited terminal differentiation to myelinating oligodendrocytes and synapse-forming neurons. Further, selective ablation of human cells using Diphtheria toxin (DT) abolished locomotor recovery in this paradigm, suggesting integration of human cells within the mouse host as a possible mechanism for the locomotor improvement. However, the hypothesis that hCNS-SCns could alter the host microenvironment as an additional or alternative mechanism of recovery remained unexplored; we tested that hypothesis in the present study. Stereological quantification of human cells using a human-specific cytoplasmic marker demonstrated successful cell engraftment, survival, migration and limited proliferation in all hCNS-SCns transplanted animals. DT administration at 16 weeks post-transplant ablated 80.5% of hCNS-SCns. Stereological quantification for lesion volume, tissue sparing, descending serotonergic host fiber sprouting, chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan deposition, glial scarring, and angiogenesis demonstrated no evidence of host modification within the mouse spinal cord as a result of hCNS-SCns transplantation. Biochemical analyses supplemented stereological data supporting the absence of neural stem-cell mediated host repair. However, linear regression analysis of the number of engrafted hCNS-SCns vs. the number of errors on a horizontal ladder beam task revealed a strong correlation between these variables (r = −0.78, p<0.05), suggesting that survival and engraftment were directly related to a quantitative measure of recovery. Altogether, the data suggest that the locomotor improvements associated with hCNS-SCns transplantation were not due to modifications within the host microenvironment, supporting the hypothesis that human cell integration within the host circuitry mediates functional recovery following a 9 day delayed transplant.
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DOI:
10.1523/jneurosci.2823-08.2008
发表时间:
2008-12-17
期刊:
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
影响因子:
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作者:
Galvan MD;Luchetti S;Burgos AM;Nguyen HX;Hooshmand MJ;Hamers FP;Anderson AJ
通讯作者:
Anderson AJ
影响因子:
82.9
作者:
Crowe, MJ;Bresnahan, JC;Beattie, MS
通讯作者:
Beattie, MS
影响因子:
2.7
作者:
Cummings, Brian J.;Engesser-Cesar, Christie;Anderson, Aileen J.
通讯作者:
Anderson, Aileen J.
影响因子:
3.4
作者:
Davies, JE;Tang, XF;Davies, SJA
通讯作者:
Davies, SJA
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
Davies, SJA;Fitch, MT;Silver, J
通讯作者:
Silver, J