Myocardial cell therapy at the crossroads
Myocardial cell therapy at the crossroads
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心肌细胞治疗处于十字路口
DOI:
10.1038/ncpcardio0743
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发表时间:
2007
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通讯作者:
V. Fuster
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作者:
B. Nadal;V. Fuster
In 2001, the first reports documenting postinfarct myocardial regeneration in rodents using bone-marrow-derived putative stem cells (BMDSCs) elicited great scientific and clinical interest. Despite the interest generated, however, these early reports neither identified the putative therapeutic cells nor provided data on dose–effect relationships or optimal administration parameters. Furthermore, they provided no insight into the mechanism or mechanisms responsible for the differentiation of BMDSCs into myocardial cells. An arduous program of animal experimentation was envisaged before the first clinical trials.Surprisingly, within 6 months of the rodent study's publication, a phase I, nonrandomized clinical trial of BMDSC myocardial transplantation was published that reported a modest improvement in ejection fraction (EF). Unfortunately many investigators interpreted this publication as the starting shot for a stampede of clinical trials transplanting or mobilizing BMDSCs into human myocardium—without prior validation in animal models.