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Moraes L Vasconcelos-dos-Santos A Santana FC Godoy MA Rosado-de-Castro PH Jasmin Azevedo-Pereira RL Cintra WM Gasparetto EL Santiago MF Mendez-Otero R 《Stem cell research》2012,9(2):143-155
Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have been tested and proven effective in some neurodegenerative diseases, but their tracking after transplantation may be challenging. Our group has previously demonstrated the feasibility and biosafety of rat MSC labeling with iron oxide superparamagnetic nanoparticles (SPION). In this study, we investigated the therapeutic potential of SPION-labeled MSC in a rat model of Huntington's disease, a genetic degenerative disease with characteristic deletion of striatal GABAergic neurons. MSC labeled with SPION were injected into the striatum 1h after quinolinic acid injection. FJ-C analysis demonstrated that MSC transplantation significantly decreased the number of degenerating neurons in the damaged striatum 7 days after lesion. In this period, MSC transplantation enhanced the striatal expression of FGF-2 but did not affect subventricular zone proliferation, as demonstrated by Ki67 proliferation assay. In addition, MSC transplantation significantly reduced the ventriculomegaly in the lesioned brain. MRI and histological techniques detected the presence of the SPION-labeled cells at the lesion site. SPION-labeled MSC produced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signals that were visible for at least 60 days after transplantation. Our data highlight the potential of adult MSC to reduce brain damage under neurodegenerative diseases and indicate the use of nanoparticles in cell tracking, supporting their potential as valuable tools for cell therapy. 相似文献
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Jasmin Ana Luiza M Torres Henrique MP Nunes Juliana A Passipieri Linda A Jelicks Emerson L Gasparetto David C Spray Antonio C Campos de Carvalho Rosalia Mendez-Otero 《Journal of nanobiotechnology》2011,9(1):4
Background
Stem cell therapy has emerged as a promising addition to traditional treatments for a number of diseases. However, harnessing the therapeutic potential of stem cells requires an understanding of their fate in vivo. Non-invasive cell tracking can provide knowledge about mechanisms responsible for functional improvement of host tissue. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) have been used to label and visualize various cell types with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this study we performed experiments designed to investigate the biological properties, including proliferation, viability and differentiation capacity of mesenchymal cells (MSCs) labeled with clinically approved SPIONs. 相似文献13.
Gangliosides are a large group of sialylated glycosphingolipids widely expressed in mammalian tissues. We have shown previously that the expression of 9-O-acetyl GD3 is highly correlated with periods of neurite outgrowth in the developing nervous system, and that the advance of dorsal root ganglia growth cones on laminin was halted in presence of an antibody specific for 9-O-acetyl GD3. In this work, we examined by immunocytochemistry and confocal microscopy whether this ganglioside is localized in point contacts in neuronal growth cones. We identified point contacts by immunoreactions with proteins, such as vinculin and beta1 integrin, known to be associated with these structures in growth cones. Our observations indicate that 9-O-acetyl GD3 is specifically associated with vinculin and beta1 integrin in point contacts of growth cones, suggesting a possible role for this particular ganglioside in the modulation of these contacts during neurite outgrowth. 相似文献
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Vasconcelos-dos-Santos A Rosado-de-Castro PH Lopes de Souza SA da Costa Silva J Ramos AB Rodriguez de Freitas G Barbosa da Fonseca LM Gutfilen B Mendez-Otero R 《Stem cell research》2012,9(1):1-8
Intravascular delivery of cells has been increasingly used in stroke models and clinical trials. We compared the biodistribution and therapeutic effects of bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMCs) delivered by intra-arterial (IA) or intravenous (IV) injection after cortical ischemia. For the biodistribution analyses, BMMCs were labeled with (99m)Technetium ((99m)Tc). At 2 h, gamma-well counting of the brain and of the other organs evaluated did not show differences between the non-ischemic and ischemic groups or between injection routes, and the organs with the highest uptake were the liver and lungs, with low uptake in the brain. At 24 h, the liver maintained the highest activity, and a marked decrease was seen in pulmonary uptake in all groups. At this time point, although the activity in the brain remained low, the lesioned hemisphere showed greater homing than the contralateral hemisphere, for both the IV and IA ischemic groups. Histological analysis by CellTrace labeling indicated similar homing between both routes in the peri-infarct region 24 h after transplantation and functional recovery was observed in both groups up to 11 weeks after the lesion. In conclusion, transplantation of BMMCs by IA or IV routes may lead to similar brain homing and therapeutic efficacy after experimental stroke. 相似文献
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Jasmin Linda A. Jelicks Wade Koba Herbert B. Tanowitz Rosalia Mendez-Otero Antonio C. Campos de Carvalho David C. Spray 《PLoS neglected tropical diseases》2012,6(12)