人脐带间充质干细胞体内移植的安全性研究

目的:探讨人脐带间充质干细胞(hUCMSC)的成瘤性及其对荷瘤鼠肿瘤生长的影响。方法:分离培养hUCMSC,取第6代细胞裸鼠皮下移植,观察其成瘤性;对荷瘤鼠尾静脉注射移植hUCMSC,观察其对肿瘤生长的影响;体外共培养hUCMSC和MCF-7肿瘤细胞,观察hUCMSC对MCF-7细胞克隆形成率的影响。结果:hUCMSC裸鼠皮下移植30 d,未观察到有肿瘤形成;尾静脉注射移植hUCMSC对荷瘤鼠肿瘤的生长无明显影响;体外共培养结果表明,hUCMSC对MCF-7肿瘤细胞的克隆形成无明显影响。结论:hUCMSC体内移植无成瘤性;静脉移植后对肿瘤生长无显著影响。     

荧光素酶标的人肝癌细胞裸鼠异种移植瘤模型的生物发光成像和PET-CT成像比较

目的利用荧光素酶基因标记的人肝癌细胞株BEL-7402建立裸鼠肝原位移植模型,及小鼠肝原位移植模型的生物发光和小动物PET-CT成像的比较。方法构建表达荧光素酶基因的真核表达载体并将其转入人肝癌细胞BEL-7402,经梯度浓度G418筛选获得稳定表达荧光素酶基因的细胞克隆并扩大培养。BALB/cA-nu裸鼠肝门静脉接种5×105个发光细胞使其成瘤,活体荧光成像和小动物PET-CT成像系统观察肿瘤的生长情况。结果获得了稳定表达Luc的人肝癌细胞株,将其接种到裸鼠体内,活体荧光成像系统观察发现能够成瘤,小动物PET-CT影像观察发现小鼠肝脏边缘对18 F-FDG有高摄取区域。结论利用荧光素酶基因标记的人肝癌细胞BEL-7402成功建立了原位肝癌裸鼠模型,小动物活体成像结合小动物PET-CT技术为原位肿瘤模型的建立提供了一种新的可靠的技术,为进一步研究肝癌生长转移机制和药物开发提供了新的有用工具。     

替吉奥联合三维适形放疗对胰腺癌细胞生物学的影响

目的：探究替吉奥复方制剂联合三维适形放射疗法对胰腺癌细胞生物学的影响及安全性评价。方法：培养PANC-1人胰腺癌细胞,构建PANC。1胰腺癌裸鼠异位肿瘤模型并随机进行分组。观察替吉奥联合三维适形放疗对胰腺癌肿瘤细胞生长的抑制作用,记录荷瘤裸鼠的肿瘤体积以及生存期。同时观察联合治疗所产生的副作用。结果：相比于单独用药组和单独放疗组,联合组能够显著抑制肿瘤体积生长,延长荷瘤裸鼠的中位生存期。结论：替吉奥单独给药和单独三维适形放疗均能抑制肿瘤的生长,二者联合使用能够发挥协同作用,是一种潜在的高效的胰腺癌治疗手段。     

人脐带间充质干细胞对胶质瘤细胞株U87上皮间质转化及皮下荷瘤能力的影响

目的研究人脐带间充质干细胞(hUCMSCs)体外模型中对胶质瘤细胞株U87荷瘤能力及其上皮间质转化(EMT)的影响及其可能机制。方法建立裸鼠皮下荷瘤模型,观察hUCMSCs与U87共培养组和U87单独荷瘤组皮下荷瘤能力的差别,免疫组化检测EMT相关基因组织表达水平,Western Blot检测EMT相关蛋白MMP2,MMP7,MMP9,E-cadherin(E-cad),N-cadherin(N-cad)和Vimentin(VIM)表达情况,q PCR检测EMT相关基因(mmp2,mmp7,mmp9,E-cad,N-cad和vimentin)转录水平。Transwell和Matrigel分别检测hUCMSCs对U87转移能力的影响,两组间比较拟采用独立样本t检验,多组间比较采用单因素方差分析。结果皮下荷瘤结果提示hUCMSCs与U87共培养组皮下荷瘤率高于U87单独荷瘤组,且肿瘤体积较大,RT-PCR结果提示:共培养组和单独培养组相比,E-cad水平下调,N-cad和VIM上调,且基质金属蛋白酶家族MMP2,MMP7,MMP9也有不同程度上调。Western blot结果提示:在蛋白水平共培养组和单独培养组相比,E-cad水平下调2.1倍,N-cad和VIM上调1.0倍,MMP9上调0.9倍;E-cad,N-cad,VIM以及MMP2变化结果与RT-PCR结果一致。免疫组化结果进一步验证hUCMSCs能促进U87表达Ki67,E-cad与N-cad低表达。Transwell和Matrigel实验结果提示hUCMSCs能够促进U87细胞的转移侵袭能力。结论 hUCMSCs能通过促进U87高表达EMT相关基因和增殖相关基因Ki67,从而促进胶质瘤细胞株U87皮下肿瘤形成并发生上皮间质转化,提示hUCMSCs临床应用中应该充分考略受试者是否是潜在胶质瘤患者。     

抗肝癌hdsFv-hEDN重组免疫毒素对荷人肝癌裸鼠皮下移植瘤生长的抑制作用

目的:研究抗肝癌hdsFv-hEDN重组免疫毒素对荷人肝癌裸鼠皮下移植瘤生长的抑制作用,评价其作用为导向治疗药物的临床应用价值.方法:将体外培养的人肝癌细胞系SMMC-7721细胞接种于裸鼠皮下,建立荷人肝癌裸鼠皮下移植瘤动物模型,随机分为hdsFv-hEDN治疗组和对照组,分别给予尾静脉注射hdsFv-hEDN和生理盐水,1次/日,共2周.比较各组裸鼠皮下移植瘤生长速度、肿瘤体积和重量,并计算肿瘤的抑制率.取各组裸鼠肿瘤组织,心,肺,肝,肾组织HE染色,光学显微镜下观察.结果:抗肝癌hdsFv-hEDN治疗组裸鼠皮下移植瘤生长抑制作用显著,肿瘤生长速度减慢,肿瘤体积从42.62±0.57 mm3增加到74.28±2.59 mm3、瘤重为155.82±14.43 mg,而对照组肿瘤体积从41.94±0.91 mm3增加到127.42±4.81 mm3、瘤重为283.28±15.21 mg,两组比较差异非常显著.肿瘤体积抑瘤率和瘤重抑瘤率分别达到41.59±0.02%和45.51±0.09%.组织学观察抗肝癌hdsFv-hEDN组肿瘤组织出现大片坏死,凋亡明显增加,心、肝、肺、肾等重要器官未见明显异常.结论:抗肝癌hdsFv-hEDN重组免疫毒素对荷人肝癌裸鼠皮下移植瘤生长具有良好的抑制作用.     

斑蝥素酸镁对人肝癌细胞SMMC-7721裸鼠皮下移植瘤凋亡的影响

建立人肝癌细胞SMMC-7721裸鼠皮下移植瘤模型,实验组每只裸鼠瘤周注射斑蝥素酸镁6.26×10-5mmol,对照组给予相同容积的无菌生理盐水瘤周注射。给药22 d后,观察斑蝥素酸镁对皮下移植瘤增殖的影响,并在此基础上,利用HE染色观察药物对人肝癌裸鼠皮下移植瘤组织形态学特征的影响。实验发现斑蝥素酸镁组移植瘤细胞体积变小、胞浆固缩、嗜酸性变,细胞核固缩、碎裂。透射电镜观察人肝癌裸鼠皮下移植瘤组织超微结构的改变,镜下见斑蝥素酸镁组移植瘤细胞核膜基本消失、核染色质聚集成团等改变。免疫组化二步法检测人肝癌裸鼠皮下移植瘤组织中bcl-2、bax的表达水平,结果显示斑蝥素酸镁组瘤组织中bcl-2的表达低于生理盐水组,而bax的表达高于生理盐水组(P0.05)。本实验提示斑蝥素酸镁能明显抑制人肝癌裸鼠皮下移植瘤的增殖,并能诱导移植瘤细胞发生凋亡,其机制可能与上调bax和下调bcl-2表达有关。     

人结肠癌SW480细胞裸鼠皮下移植瘤DcR3基因的RNA干扰及其作用

目的:观察DcR3基因小干扰RNA(siRNA)对人结肠癌SW480细胞裸鼠皮下移植瘤DcR3基因表达的影响。方法:建立结肠癌SW480细胞裸鼠皮下移植瘤模型,瘤体注射脂质体与DcR3siRNA混合物,转染DcR3siRNA,免疫组织化学及RT-PCR检测观察DcR3基因的表达。结果:建立了结肠癌SW480细胞裸鼠皮下移植瘤模型;治疗后,治疗组移植瘤明显减小,空白对照组、阴性对照组肿瘤体积显著大于治疗组(P<0.01);各组肿瘤组织中DcR3基因均有不同程度的表达,治疗组表达程度明显低于阴性对照组及空白对照组(RT-PCRP<0.05,免疫组化P<0.01)。结论:人结肠癌SW480细胞在裸鼠皮下有良好的成瘤性;脂质体与DcR3siRNA混合物可特异性抑制结肠癌裸鼠皮下移植瘤内DcR3基因的表达。     

重组腺病毒Ad-Mig基因治疗裸鼠肾细胞癌的实验研究

目的:研究腺病毒介导的小鼠Mig基因对BALB/c裸鼠肾细胞癌的抗肿瘤效果,探讨肾细胞癌治疗的新途径.方法:利用786-O肾癌细胞皮下注射BALB/c裸鼠建立肾细胞癌模型,应用携带Mig基因的重组腺病毒(Ad-Mig)直接进行瘤内注射治疗,观察裸鼠皮下肿瘤生长情况和荷瘤裸鼠的生存期;用乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)释放法检测CTL和NK的杀伤活性.结果:Mig基因能显著抑制荷瘤裸鼠皮下肿瘤的生长,并使鼠生存期明显延长,还能显著增强鼠脾细胞NK和CTL杀伤活性.结论:重组腺病毒Ad-Mig基因对鼠肾细胞癌有显著治疗效果.     

全反式维甲酸对U87-MG细胞裸鼠皮下移植瘤模型中血管生成拟态的影响

目的:明确全反式维甲酸对人恶性脑胶质瘤U87-MG细胞体内血管拟态形成的影响。方法:体外培养U87-MG细胞,并建立裸鼠皮下移植瘤模型,利用全反式维甲酸进行干预,检测荷瘤裸鼠肿瘤生长情况;利用HE染色对肿瘤组织进行细胞形态学观察;利用CD34-PAS双染法观察肿瘤血管拟态的形成情况。结果:U87-MG细胞在裸鼠体内成功荷瘤并出现血管拟态;全反式维甲酸显著抑制了U87-MG细胞实体瘤的生长和血管拟态的形成。结论:全反式维甲酸具有显著的抗肿瘤能力,其作用机制与血管拟态形成相关。     

AFP表达调控载体对肝癌模型的靶向治疗作用

目的观察甲胎蛋白(AFP)表达调控载体pAFP-P53-EGFP对AFP表达阳性肝癌模型靶向治疗作用。方法以人肝癌HepG2(AFP阳性)、人肝癌SMMC7721(AFP阴性)细胞于BALB/c-nu裸小鼠右腋皮下荷瘤,14d成瘤,免疫组化检测AFP。将构建好的pAFP-EGFP和pAFP-P53-EGFP重组质粒于肿瘤内注射,观察肿瘤体积变化,通过免疫组化观察p53在HepG2肿瘤中的特异性表达及对肿瘤细胞的杀伤作用。结果荷HepG2、SMMC7721细胞株裸鼠14d皮下肿瘤生长良好,且肿瘤体积均为500mm3左右,经HE染色证实造模成功。同时,AFP免疫组化结果显示接种HepG2细胞的肿瘤组织AFP表达阳性,SMMC7721细胞的肿瘤组织AFP表达为阴性。经pAFP-EGFP和pAFP-P53-EGFP重组质粒治疗后,p53的免疫组化分析结果显示接种HepG2细胞的裸鼠pAFP-P53-EGFP治疗组p53表达量显著高于其他各组,可见明显细胞凋亡现象,且肿瘤体积较对照组减小。结论含AFP基因调控序列的pAFP-P53-EGFP载体可专一性地作用于AFP阳性肝癌细胞,引起肝癌细胞周期阻滞和凋亡。     

肿瘤干细胞及肝癌肿瘤干细胞

肿瘤干细胞理论认为只有存在于肿瘤中的少量干细胞性质的细胞群体对肿瘤发生和发展起着决定作用,肿瘤是由干细胞突变积累而形成的无限增殖的异常组织,这一理论的提出使人们对肿瘤发生机制的认识上升到了一个新的高度,也引起了研究者的广泛关注;肝癌是我国常见的恶性肿瘤之一,我国肝癌死亡率居世界之首,目前对肝癌的研究是我国恶性肿瘤防治的重点工作,现对当前肿瘤干细胞与肝癌肿瘤干细胞相关方面的最新研究进展作一概述。     

Fusion of Tumour Cells with Host Cells

THE A9 cell is an 8-azaguanine-resistant derivative of the L cell line¹. It lacks the enzyme inosinic acid pyrophosphorylase and is thus unable to grow in media such as HAT² in which endogenous synthesis of nucleic acid is blocked by aminopterin. The A9 line has little ability to grow progressively in vivo. Inocula of 5 × 10⁴ to 2 × 10⁶ cells produced progressive tumours in only 12% of X-irradiated newborn syngeneic C3H mice³. One of these tumours was explanted as a cell suspension into Eagle's minimal essential medium containing 15% foetal calf serum and then subcultivated in this medium with 5% foetal calf serum. At each passage, cells were inoculated into X-irradiated newborn syngeneic C3H or semi-allogeneic C3H×X F₁ mice (X designates a number of different allogeneic parents). Between 80 and 90% of the inoculated animals developed progressive tumours. The cell line was therefore designated A9HT (high take incidence). The karyotype of the A9HT line was found to be similar to that of the A9 line, but with a slightly reduced total chromosome number. The modal chromosome number of A9HT was about 53, compared with about 57 for A9 (see ref. 4). A9 and A9HT both had between 20 and 30 bi-armed chromosomes and a number of marker chromosomes in common. A detailed comparison of the karyotypes of the two lines examined by the quinacrine fluorescence technique has been made⁵. The A9HT line, like its A9 parent, lacks inosinic acid pyrophos-phorylase and is unable to grow in HAT medium.     

Place Cells,Grid Cells,and Memory

The hippocampal system is critical for storage and retrieval of declarative memories, including memories for locations and events that take place at those locations. Spatial memories place high demands on capacity. Memories must be distinct to be recalled without interference and encoding must be fast. Recent studies have indicated that hippocampal networks allow for fast storage of large quantities of uncorrelated spatial information. The aim of the this article is to review and discuss some of this work, taking as a starting point the discovery of multiple functionally specialized cell types of the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit, such as place, grid, and border cells. We will show that grid cells provide the hippocampus with a metric, as well as a putative mechanism for decorrelation of representations, that the formation of environment-specific place maps depends on mechanisms for long-term plasticity in the hippocampus, and that long-term spatiotemporal memory storage may depend on offline consolidation processes related to sharp-wave ripple activity in the hippocampus. The multitude of representations generated through interactions between a variety of functionally specialized cell types in the entorhinal–hippocampal circuit may be at the heart of the mechanism for declarative memory formation.The scientific study of human memory started with Herman Ebbinghaus, who initiated the quantitative investigation of associative memory processes as they take place (Ebbinghaus 1885). Ebbinghaus described the conditions that influence memory formation and he determined several basic principles of encoding and recall, such as the law of frequency and the effect of time on forgetting. With Ebbinghaus, higher mental functions were brought to the laboratory. In parallel with the human learning tradition that Ebbinghaus started, a new generation of experimental psychologists described the laws of associative learning in animals. With behaviorists like Pavlov, Watson, Hull, Skinner, and Tolman, a rigorous program for identifying the laws of animal learning was initiated. By the middle of the 20th century, a language for associative learning processes had been developed, and many of the fundamental relationships between environment and behavior had been described. What was completely missing, though, was an understanding of the neural activity underlying the formation of the memory. The behaviorists had deliberately shied away from physiological explanations because of the intangible nature of neural activity at that time.Then the climate began to change. Karl Lashley had shown that lesions in the cerebral cortex had predictable effects on behavior in animals (Lashley 1929, 1950), and Donald Hebb introduced concepts and ideas to account for complex brain functions at the neural circuit level, many of which have retained a place in modern neuroscience (Hebb 1949). Both Lashley and Hebb searched for the engram, but they found no specific locus for it. A significant turning point was reached when Scoville and Milner (1957) reported severe loss of memory in an epileptic patient, patient H.M., after bilateral surgical removal of the hippocampal formation and the surrounding medial temporal lobe areas. “After operation this young man could no longer recognize the hospital staff nor find his way to the bathroom, and he seemed to recall nothing of the day-to-day events of his hospital life.” This tragic misfortune inspired decades of research on the function of the hippocampus in memory. H.M.’s memory impairment could be reproduced in memory tasks in animals and studies of H.M., as well as laboratory animals, pointed to a critical role for the hippocampus in declarative memory—memory, which, in humans, can be consciously recalled and declared, such as memories of experiences and facts (Milner et al. 1968; Mishkin 1978; Cohen and Squire 1980; Squire 1992; Corkin 2002). What was missing from these early studies, however, was a way to address the neuronal mechanisms that led information to be stored as memory.The aim of this article is to show how studies of hippocampal neuronal activity during the past few decades have brought us to a point at which a mechanistic basis of memory formation is beginning to surface. An early landmark in this series of investigations was the discovery of place cells, cells that fire selectively at one or few locations in the environment. At first, these cells seemed to be part of the animal’s instantaneous representation of location, independent of memory, but gradually, over the course of several decades, it has become clear that place cells express current as well as past and future locations. In many ways, place cells can be used as readouts of the memories that are stored in the hippocampus. More recent work has also shown that place cells are part of a wider network of spatially modulated neurons, including grid, border, and head direction cells, each with distinct roles in the representation of space and spatial memory. In this article, we shall discuss potential mechanisms by which these cell types, particularly place and grid cells, in conjunction with synaptic plasticity, may form the basis of a mammalian system for fast high-capacity declarative memory.     

体细胞重编程逆转为干细胞的研究进展

目前细胞和发育生物学上的研究成果为生物医学研究提供了广泛的前景.将完全分化的细胞重编程,不经过胚胎逆转为多能干细胞状态,这点燃了再生医学应用的新希望,这一成果从法律、道德、伦理等不同方面被人们所接受.通过体细胞克隆胚胎获得干细胞所面临的破坏胚胎的伦理限制,促使研究者去寻求将分化细胞重编程逆转为干细胞的新方法.主要论述了体细胞重编程的原理、过程及不经过胚胎逆转为多能干细胞的方法.     

Dendritic Cells: Migratory Cells that are Attractive

Dendritic cells (DC) are professional antigen presenting cells, playing an important role in the initiation of T- and T cell dependent immune responses. DC are highly mobile cells and the sequential migration of DC in and out of tissues is accompanied by phenotypical as well as functional changes instrumental to their function as sentinels of the immune system. Herein, we will review recent progress in understanding the origin of DC, their migratory behaviour and their capacity to attract and interact with lymphocytes, with emphasis on the chemokine system.     

IDS Transfer from Overexpressing Cells to IDS-Deficient Cells

Iduronate sulfatase (IDS) is responsible for mucopolysaccharidosis type II, a rare recessive X-linked lysosomal storage disease. The aim of this work was to test the ability of overexpressing cells to transfer IDS to deficient cells. In the first part of our work, IDS processing steps were compared in fibroblasts, COS cells, and lymphoblastoid cell lines and shown to be identical: the two precursor forms (76 and 90 kDa) were processed by a series of intermediate forms to the 55- and 45-kDa mature polypeptides. Then IDS transfer to IDS-deficient cells was tested either by incubation with cell-free medium of overexpressing cells or by coculture. Endocytosis and coculture experiments between transfected Lβ and deleted fibroblasts showed that IDS transfer occurred preferentially by cell-to-cell contact as IDS precursors are poorly secreted by transfected Lβ. The 76- and 62-kDa IDS polypeptides transferred to deleted fibroblasts were correctly processed to the mature 55- and 45-kDa forms. Lβ were not able to internalize the 90-kDa phosphorylated precursor forms excreted in large amounts in the medium of overexpressing fibroblasts. Enzyme transfer occurred only by cell-to-cell contact, but the precursor forms transferred in Lβ after cell-to-cell contact were not processed. This absence of maturation was probably due to a mistargeting of IDS precursors in these cells.     

Oocyte-like Cells Induced from Mouse Spermatogonial Stem Cells

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: During normal development primordial germ cells (PGCs) derived from the epiblast are the precursors of spermatogonia and oogonia. In culture, PGCs can be induced to dedifferentiate to pluripotent embryonic germ (EG) cells in the presence of various growth factors. Several recent studies have now demonstrated that spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) can also revert back to pluripotency as embryonic stem (ES)-like cells under certain culture conditions. However, the potential dedifferentiation of SSCs into PGCs or the potential generation of oocytes from SSCs has not been demonstrated before. RESULTS: We report that mouse male SSCs can be converted into oocyte-like cells in culture. These SSCs-derived oocytes (SSC-Oocs) were similar in size to normal mouse mature oocytes. They expressed oocyte-specific markers and give rise to embryos through parthenogenesis. Interestingly, the Y- and X-linked testis-specific genes in these SSC-Oocs were significantly down-regulated or turned off, while oocyte-specific X-linked genes were activated. The gene expression profile appeared to switch to that of the oocyte across the X chromosome. Furthermore, these oocyte-like cells lost paternal imprinting but acquired maternal imprinting. CONCLUSIONS: Our data demonstrate that SSCs might maintain the potential to be reprogrammed into oocytes with corresponding epigenetic reversals. This study provides not only further evidence for the remarkable plasticity of SSCs but also a potential system for dissecting molecular and epigenetic regulations in germ cell fate determination and imprinting establishment during gametogenesis.     

Dendritic Cells and Regulatory T Cells in Atherosclerosis

Although macrophages and other immune system cells, especially T cells, have been shown to play disease-promoting roles in atherosclerosis, less is known about the role of antigen presenting cells. Functional, immune stimulating dendritic cells (DCs) have recently been detected in aortic intima, the site of origin of atherosclerosis. We had compared DCs with macrophages in mice with experimental atherosclerosis, to clearly define cell types by developmental and functional criteria. This review summarizes recent advances in studies of DCs in humans and in mouse models of atherosclerosis, as well as providing a simple strategy to measure regulatory T (Treg) cells in the mouse aorta.