利用人脐带血干细胞制备人鼠肝组织嵌合体模型

目的利用人脐带血干细胞研究制备HBV感染人鼠嵌合小鼠模型。方法将人脐血干细胞,经尾静脉分两次注射到裸鼠体内。分别于第7,14,21天取肝组织,进行AFP免疫组织化学检测,分析人肝细胞在裸鼠体内嵌合生长情况,并进行乙肝病毒感染实验,定量检测感染后小鼠血清中AFP、ALB。结果实验组小鼠在第7、14、21天肝脏内AFP持续阳性表达,AFP表达于细胞质内。HBV感染后小鼠肝脏HBsAg组化显示密集成片的阳性细胞。实验组和对照组表达差异显著（P〈0.05）。结论将人脐血干细胞移植裸鼠肝脏内可以存活并分化成人肝细胞形成嵌合鼠,并能被HBV感染。     

同种异体宫内移植小鼠嵌合模型的建立

干细胞宫内移植是一种很有前途的产前治疗方式。为深入研究干细胞移植后的细胞行为,采用宫内移植的方法建立同种异体的嵌合小鼠模型。将雄鼠骨髓单核细胞宫内注射到胎鼠腹腔,在受体鼠出生后检测雌性受体鼠外周血细胞。应用PCR检测外周血是否存在雄性鼠的DNA,并采用定量PCR技术确定其嵌合量;同时用荧光原位杂交（FISH）技术直观观察外周血中雄性来源的细胞。结果表明：共获得4只阳性外周血嵌合小鼠,其中3只稳定嵌合达到6个月以上。应用宫内移植成功建立了外周血中存在异源细胞的小鼠嵌合模型。     

人成体肝细胞在Fah-/-Nod/Scid小鼠肝脏中的显著增殖

利用人肝细胞异种移植到受体鼠肝内建立人源化肝脏的嵌合体小鼠(人鼠嵌合肝)对药物代谢、乙型肝炎病毒等嗜肝性病毒及其疫苗的研究具有重要意义. 研究表明, 利用Fah^-/-Rag2^-/-Il2rg^-/-三基因剔除小鼠可获得人肝细胞在小鼠肝脏中的显著再殖, 但较高的死亡率及纯合子不能用于繁殖, 制约着该小鼠模型的规模化应用. 本研究结合延胡索酰乙酰乙酸水解酶基因剔除(Fah^-/-)小鼠的肝脏再殖优势和Nod/Scid小鼠异种移植的特点, 将这两种小鼠进行杂交繁育建立Fah^-/-Nod/Scid小鼠品系, Fah^-/-Nod/Scid小鼠可以纯合保种并能正常繁殖. 采用提前停药的预处理方案, 结合FK506处理, 移植的人成体肝细胞能够实现在Fah^-/-Nod/Scid小鼠肝脏中的显著增殖, 肝脏再殖程度达到30%以上. 采用体重曲线、肝功能和人肝细胞功能蛋白表达等三方面指标评价嵌合肝脏中人肝细胞的功能, 结果表明再殖的肝细胞具有正常的人肝细胞功能. 这些结果表明, Fah^-/-Nod/Scid小鼠可以作为理想的可规模应用的人鼠嵌合肝模型, 该技术体系的改进简化了Fah^-/-小鼠作为人源化肝脏小鼠模型的实用性问题.     

胎肝造血干细胞的移植特性

胚胎发育中,肝脏是一个重要的造血器官。近年来胎肝移植的临床应用重新引起了人们的关注。本文应用染色体的 C-带染色法研究了小鼠骨髓和胎肝造血干细胞在照射受体小鼠中的增殖能力与相互间的竞争作用。实验结果表明胎肝造血干细胞在成年骨髓中的植入率比较同样条件下的成年骨髓造血干细胞低,但胎肝造血干细胞比较成年骨髓造血干细胞具有更强的自我更新或增殖能力。在同种胎肝造血干细胞移植中,为了降低同种移植抗力,提高移植的胎肝造血干细胞在受体中的耐受性,移植前对受体作适当的免疫抑制处理是必要的。因此,克服个体发育屏障和移植免疫屏障是提高同种胎肝造血干细胞移植效果中两个重要的研究课题。     

移植胎鼠间充质干细胞的抗衰老作用

本文旨在研究BALB/c小鼠胎鼠源干细胞同种异体移植的抗衰老作用。采用无菌剖宫产取胎鼠,密度梯度离心法分离干细胞,贴壁培养法纯化扩增间充质干细胞,连续3次尾静脉注射P1代细胞植入15月龄雌性BALB/c小鼠体内。超声检查小鼠心脏,检查血清总超氧化物歧化酶活力、丙二醛含量、谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶活力,各器官做解剖学检查以及组织学衰老程度比较、评分。结果显示,Y染色体原位杂交实验检测到移植后干细胞长期存活,移植后移植组小鼠存活日期明显长于对照组,移植3个月后评价心功能的各指标,心脏质量指数、脾脏质量指数,心脏、肾脏、肺脏、皮肤、结肠等器官组织学衰老程度评分结果以及血液生化指标,皆优于对照组(均P0.05)。以上结果提示,移植小鼠胎鼠源干细胞能有效地延缓小鼠衰老进程。     

通过显微注射法构建ES细胞(MESPU 13)嵌合小鼠

为了研究一个新建的小鼠胚胎干细胞系(ES细胞系)MESPU 13,我们将ES细胞显微注射到C57BL/6J小鼠的囊胚中构建嵌合鼠。在注射了2-9个ES细胞的136个囊胚中,127个囊胚(93%)经过3个小时的培养后重新出现囊胚腔。当把119个恢复的囊胚移植到假孕雌鼠的子宫内时,获得63只(52.9%)出生鼠。在59只存活到可以判断毛色阶段的小鼠中,有21只(35.6%)被判定为嵌合鼠。显示了该ES细胞系具有较高的嵌合能力。     

胎肝造血干细胞在扩散盒培养条件下移植特性的变化

经体内扩散盒培养6d 后的 LACA 小鼠胎肝细胞移植给照射的同系成年小鼠,造血干细胞在受体脾脏和骨髓中的有效植入率比正常胎肝细胞明显提高。但这种效果在同种异基因受体小鼠中则完全消失。实验结果表明,个体发育屏障和移植免疫屏障是决定同种胎肝移植能否成功的两个重要因素。胎肝细胞经体内或体外培养后可以模拟造血干细胞在体内的发育成熟,从而增强对成年造血微环境的适应性。用短期体内培养的方法,可以改变胎肝造血干细胞的某些生理特性,从而减弱个体发育屏障,但不能克服胎肝同种移植中的免疫性抗力。为了保证同种胎肝移植的成功,必须进一步同时克服两种屏障。     

骨髓间充质干细胞移植治疗大鼠肝损伤的实验研究

目的:了解肝损伤大鼠在输注骨髓间充质干细胞后肝功能生化指标和肝脏组织病理变化情况,为临床应用提供实验依据。方法:将大鼠随机分为正常组和造模组。造模组采用腹腔注射四氯化碳的方法构建,然后将造模组随机分为干细胞移植治疗组、模型对照组。干细胞移植组经门静脉输注标记的骨髓间充质干细胞。3周后处死大鼠。然后检测大鼠肝功能、肝脏病理改变分析干细胞移植治疗肝损伤效果。结果:干细胞移植治疗3周后,大鼠的肝脏与对照组比较,明显恢复,但是并没有恢复到正常水平。结论:骨髓间充质干细胞对肝损伤的大鼠有治疗作用。     

直接注射法制作ICR小鼠肝癌原位移植瘤模型

目的：培养鼠肝癌H22细胞,直接注射法制作ICR小鼠肝癌原位移植瘤,为后续实验奠定基础。方法：鼠肝癌H22细胞体外培养,将调整好的对数生长期的肝癌细胞直接注射小鼠肝脏,2周后解剖观察,并进行组织HE染色。结果：所有实验小鼠均可见肿瘤生长,HE染色示肝细胞肝癌。结论：直接注射法制作ICR小鼠肝癌原位移植瘤模型简便易行,值得推广应用。     

脐血间充质干细胞对小鼠辐射性肝损伤的作用

目的:研究脐血间充质干细胞(UCMSC)对全身X线受照小鼠的肝组织辐射损伤后的防护作用,为相关放射性肝疾病的治疗提供理论依据。方法:选取清洁级SD小鼠进行全身辐射,建立小鼠辐射损伤模型,观察辐射前后小鼠的一般状态;给小鼠注射UCMSC悬浮液1 m L和等体积生理盐水,分别于处理后第1、2、7、14 d取小鼠肝脏,用苏木精-伊红染色,观察辐射后肝组织病理形态学的变化;取肝脏组织匀浆检测丙二醛(MDA)含量和超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)的活性。结果:辐射组小鼠与正常组小鼠相比活动明显减少,治疗后的小鼠状况有所恢复;肝组织石蜡切片染色显示,按组织学标准评价后各组肝组织比较有显著性差异;辐射组与正常组比较,肝细胞内MDA含量显著升高,SOD活性显著降低,差异有统计学意义;普通组与辐射组比较,肝细胞内MDA含量有所降低,SOD活性有所升高有明显改善作用;加强组与普通组比较,MDA含量降低,SOD活性有所升高。结论:脐血间充质干细胞移植具有清除自由基、减轻肝损伤及修复再生损伤肝细胞的作用,能够有效改善肝脏损伤。     

Intrahepatic transplantation of CD34+ cord blood stem cells into newborn and adult NOD/SCID mice induce differential organ engraftment

In vivo studies concerning the function of human hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) are limited by relatively low levels of engraftment and the failure of the engrafted HSC preparations to differentiate into functional immune cells after systemic application. In the present paper we describe the effect of intrahepatically transplanted CD34⁺ cells from cord blood into the liver of newborn or adult NOD/SCID mice on organ engraftment and differentiation.Analyzing the short and long term time dependency of human cell recruitment into mouse organs after cell transplantation in the liver of newborn and adult NOD/SCID mice by RT-PCR and FACS analysis, a significantly high engraftment was found after transplantation into liver of newborn NOD/SCID mice compared to adult mice, with the highest level of 35% human cells in bone marrow and 4.9% human cells in spleen at day 70. These human cells showed CD19 B-cell, CD34 and CD38 hematopoietic and CD33 myeloid cell differentiation, but lacked any T-cell differentiation. HSC transplantation into liver of adult NOD/SCID mice resulted in minor recruitment of human cells from mouse liver to other mouse organs. The results indicate the usefulness of the intrahepatic application route into the liver of newborn NOD/SCID mice for the investigation of hematopoietic differentiation potential of CD34⁺ cord blood stem cell preparations.     

Human mesenchymal stem cells engraft and demonstrate site-specific differentiation after in utero transplantation in sheep

Mesenchymal stem cells are multipotent cells that can be isolated from adult bone marrow and can be induced in vitro and in vivo to differentiate into a variety of mesenchymal tissues, including bone, cartilage, tendon, fat, bone marrow stroma, and muscle. Despite their potential clinical utility for cellular and gene therapy, the fate of mesenchymal stem cells after systemic administration is mostly unknown. To address this, we transplanted a well-characterized human mesenchymal stem cell population into fetal sheep early in gestation, before and after the expected development of immunologic competence. In this xenogeneic system, human mesenchymal stem cells engrafted and persisted in multiple tissues for as long as 13 months after transplantation. Transplanted human cells underwent site-specific differentiation into chondrocytes, adipocytes, myocytes and cardiomyocytes, bone marrow stromal cells and thymic stroma. Unexpectedly, there was long-term engraftment even when cells were transplanted after the expected development of immunocompetence. Thus, mesenchymal stem cells maintain their multipotential capacity after transplantation, and seem to have unique immunologic characteristics that allow persistence in a xenogeneic environment. Our data support the possibility of the transplantability of mesenchymal stem cells and their potential utility in tissue engineering, and cellular and gene therapy applications.     

M-CSF诱导人骨髓间充质干细胞分化为肝样细胞的分子机制

本研究主要目的是明确M-CSF诱导骨髓间充质干细胞分化为肝样细胞的分子机制,为临床中的肝移植和治疗肝病提供新思路。对取自于本院骨科治疗的患者的股骨骨髓间充质干细胞进行提取、分离、传代培养及鉴定。流式细胞仪检测BMSCs的表面表型。为了诱导BMSCs的肝分化,本研究将BMSCs加入到培养基中。骨髓间充质干细胞诱导21 d后,BMSCs表达了肝细胞特异性标志物a-蛋白(AFP)和细胞角蛋白18(CK18),通过免疫荧光染色证实了分化与为分化的BMSCs表达的差异性。分化的BMSCs还显示了肝细胞的体外功能特征,包括白蛋白产生、尿素分泌和糖原储存。本研究结果表明,BMSCs在M-CSF诱导下可分化为功能性肝细胞样细胞,可作为肝病治疗的细胞来源。     

Laminin expression during bone marrow mononuclear cell transplantation in hepatectomized rats

The adult bone marrow retains two populations of stem cells with emerging importance for the treatment of diverse liver diseases: hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). However, the mechanisms that control liver regeneration after bone marrow cell transplantation are still controversial. Liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy is a complex process that requires the proliferation of all hepatic cells. Growth factors, cytokines and extracellular matrix molecules are key elements in this process. Laminins are a family of extracellular matrix proteins with adhesive and chemotactic functions, expressed in the portal and centrolobular veins of the normal liver. The aim of this study was to investigate laminin expression during liver regeneration induced by partial hepatectomy followed by bone marrow mononuclear cell (BMMNC) transplantation. Rat BMMNCs were isolated by Ficoll-gradient centrifugation, stained with DAPI and injected into recently hepatectomyzed rats via the portal vein. Liver sections obtained 15 min, 1 day and 3 days after the surgery were immunolabeled with anti-rat CD34 and/or laminin primary antibodies and observed under a laser scanning confocal microscope. Results showed that 15 min after partial hepatectomy, a transplanted CD34+ HSC was found in contact with laminin, which was localized in the portal and centrolobular veins of rat livers. Furthermore, 1 and 3 days after hepatectomy, transplanted BMMNCs were found in the hepatic sinusoids expressing laminin. These results strongly suggest that laminin might be an important extracellular matrix component for bone marrow cell attachment and migration in the injured liver.     

造血干细胞移植条件对小鼠造血重建的影响

通过同种基因型小鼠构建造血干细胞移植模型,将预处理的全骨髓单个核细胞或c-Kit⁺造血干细胞移植至致死剂量照射的受体小鼠体内,动态监测移植2～16周后受体小鼠体内供体来源细胞造血重建以及嵌合情况,以期揭示不同群体的供体细胞以及预处理等因素对小鼠造血干细胞移植后造血重建的影响。实验结果显示,移植后早期(2周)全骨髓单个核细胞组髓系比例要高于c-Kit⁺细胞移植组,但全骨髓移植组受体小鼠呈现出较大的移植后不良反应,出现脱毛、食欲不振以及体重减轻的症状。c-Kit⁺细胞移植组在淋系重建上要早于全骨髓移植组,供体细胞的嵌合植入也早于全骨髓移植组,但两组实验组最终均能完成造血重建过程。实验结果表明c-Kit⁺细胞移植组在移植后能够较快地实现供体细胞植入,进而开始造血重建,且c-Kit⁺细胞移植组的不良反应要低于全骨髓移植组。结果说明在整体造血重建效果上c-Kit⁺细胞移植组要优于全骨髓移植组。     

Intrahepatically transplanted human cord blood cells reduce SW480 tumor growth in the presence of bispecific EpCAM/CD3 antibody

Humanized mice were generated in order to investigate the anti-tumor efficacy of bispecific antibodies. The engraftment, distribution and differentiation of mononuclear cells (MNC) from cord blood transplanted into the liver of newborn non-obese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficiency (NOD/SCID) mice were measured. Using a human-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR), human cells were found to be present in the liver for a time range from 5 min to 5 days. After long-term engraftment of 42 days, the highest level of human cells was measured in mouse thymus, with lower levels in spleen and bone marrow. Engrafted human cells in mouse organs showed T-cell differentiation only, as measured by CD3, CD4 and CD8 expression. The MNC transplanted intrahepatically into newborn mice were tested for T-cell mediated anti-tumor activity in vivo against subcutaneously transplanted human SW480 colon carcinoma in NOD/SCID mice. A delay of SW480 tumor growth in mice in the presence of a bispecific epithelial cell-adhesion molecule (EpCAM)/CD3 antibody was found to be associated with the presence of immunoreactive human CD3 cells within the SW480 tumor. Our data provide evidence that the intrahepatic transplantation of cord blood stem cells into newborn mice represents a valuable model for establishing functionally active human T cells with anti-tumor activity.     

SELF-RENEWAL OF COLONY FORMING UNITS (CFU) IN SERIAL BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION EXPERIMENTS

The capacity of stem cells (CFU) for self-renewal was tested by transplanting normal bone marrow (primary transplantation) and bone marrow which had been subjected to one or two earlier transplantations (secondary and tertiary transplantation) into lethally irradiated syngeneic recipients. It was found that the capacity for self-renewal is diminished within the first weeks after one or more previous transplantations. This ability of stem cells recovered after a longer interval after the previous transplantation. The time required for this recovery depended upon the number of previous transplantations and amounted to more than 1 or 2 months after one or two transplantations respectively. Shortly after transplantation the CFU/nucleated cell ratio in bone marrow was below normal and its decrease was more pronounced when the bone marrow had been transplanted more often. An increase of the ratio towards normal values was observed in the course of one month after the last transplantation. Measurements of the spleen colony size after transplantation of normal and re-transplanted bone marrow indicated that CFUs from re-transplanted marrow gave slightly smaller spleen colonies than those of normal marrow.
It is concluded that the decreased self-renewal of stem cells shortly after previous transplantations is probably not due to a limitation in the number of normal mitoses they can perform, but to a loss of stem cells by transfer to the compartment of differentiating cells.     

Bone marrow transplantation into hemochromatotic mice decreases hepatic and duodenal iron overload

Human hereditary hemochromatosis is a disorder of iron homeostasis characterized by increased absorption of iron and its deposition in parenchymal organs. The maintenance of iron homeostasis is regulated by molecules involved in the absorption, transport, storage and redox of iron. The potential of hematopoietic stem cell therapy for liver diseases has been studied in some experimental animal models. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of bone marrow transplantation from wild type mice on the status of iron overload in Hfe knockout hemochromatotic mice (Hfe(-/-)). The transplanted cells were detected in the liver (11% of the total cells) and characterized as hepatocytes and myofibroblasts. They were also detected in the duodenum and characterized as myofibroblasts. The iron content in the Hfe(-/-) mice descended 2.9-fold in the liver and 2.4-fold in the duodenum 6 months after transplantation. Non-significant changes of relative mRNA abundance of genes of iron metabolism were observed in the liver and duodenum of Hfe(-/-) transplanted mice. At 6 months after transplantation the proportion of Hfe mRNA in Hfe(-/-) mice reached 3.8% of the levels in wild type mice in the liver and 1.6% in the duodenum. In conclusion, adult stem cells from bone marrow transplant were able to differentiate into hepatocytes and myofibroblasts in hemochromatotic mice. Bone marrow transplantation assisted in reducing the iron overload in this murine model of hemochromatosis. These findings might contribute to the knowledge of pathways involved in the regulatory system of iron homeostasis.     

Mesenchymal stem cells showed the highest potential for the regeneration of injured liver tissue compared with other subpopulations of the bone marrow

We have previously reported that bone marrow cells (BMCs) participate in the regeneration after liver injury. However, it is not established that this is the result of differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) or the combination of both. We investigated the contribution of each cell fraction to the regenerative process. First, we confirmed that transplanted stem cells migrate directly to injured liver tissue without dispersing to other organs. Next, we divided green fluorescent protein (GFP)-expressing BMCs into three populations as mononuclear cells, MSCs and HSCs. We then compared the engraftment capacity after transplantation of each fraction of cells into liver-injured mice. Of these, the MSCs transplanted group showed the highest GFP fluorescence intensities in liver tissue by flow cytometry analysis and confocal microscopic observation. Furthermore, MSCs showed differentiation potential into hepatocytes when co-cultured with injured liver cells, which suggests that MSCs showed highest potential for the regeneration of injured liver tissue compared with those of the other two cell refractions.