Persistence of allografts in the peritoneal cavity after prenatal transplantation in mice.
Persistence of allografts in the peritoneal cavity after prenatal transplantation in mice.
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小鼠产前移植后同种异体移植物在腹腔内的持久性。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01570.x
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发表时间:
2008
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Muench,MarcusO
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作者:
Chen,Jeng-Chang;Chang,Ming-Ling;Muench,MarcusO
BACKGROUND:In utero transplantation (IUT) is usually performed by intraperitoneal injection, but there is little information regarding the fate of intraperitoneally transplanted cells in the first weeks after transplantation.STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:Fetal transplantation was performed in a B6D2F1(C57BL/6 × DBA/2, H‐2b/d) into C57BL/6 (H‐2b) murine strain combination at the gestational age of 13 days by intraperitoneal injection of light‐density marrow cells. Adult C57BL/6 mice were used as the postnatal transplantation group. Donor cell levels in the peritoneum, peripheral blood, and various hematopoietic tissues were examined by flow cytometry.RESULTS:After fetal transplantation, peritoneal chimerism could be detected for 4 weeks, ranging from 0.02 to 23.2 percent with the highest median chimerism at 2 weeks after transplantation. Donor cells in the peripheral blood, spleen, marrow, liver, and thymus were usually low (<0.2%) with a tendency for higher donor cell levels at 2 weeks after transplantation. Engraftment in fetal peritoneum was primarily by myeloid and B cells with few T cells. In contrast, adult mice transplanted with haplogeneic marrow cleared nearly all donor cells from the peritoneum within a week of transplant. There was no evidence showing that donor cells had ever migrated to any hematopoietic tissues after adult transplantation.CONCLUSION:Despite limited engraftment in hematopoietic tissues, donor cells persisted in the peritoneum for 2 weeks or longer after fetal transplantation. The fetal peritoneum may serve as a sanctuary for foreign cells in the fetus, which may aid the development of novel cellular therapies for birth defects.