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MICROVASCULAR RESEARCH
Volume 77, Issue 3, Pages 370-376Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2009.02.001
Keywords
Mesenchymal stem cell; Intravital microscopy; Microcirculation
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- German Helmholtz Association, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [0402710]
- German Research Foundation, Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio
- START-MSC
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We investigated the kinetics of human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) after intravascular administration into SCID mouse cremaster vasculature by intravital microscopy. MSCs were injected into abdominal aorta through left femoral artery at two different concentrations (1 x 10(6) or 0.2 x 10(6) cell). Arterial blood velocity decrease by 60 and 18% 1 min after high/low dose MSCs injection respectively. The blood microcirculation was interrupted after 174 +/- 71 and 485 +/- 81 s. Intravital microscopy observation and histopathologic analysis of cremaster muscles indicated MSCs were entrapped in capillaries in both groups. 40 and 25% animals died of pulmonary embolism respectively in both high and low MSCs dose groups, which was detected by histopathologic analysis of the lungs. Intraarterial MSCs administration may lead to occlusion in the distal vasculature due to their relatively large cell size. Pulmonary sequestration may cause death in small laboratory animals. MSCs should be used cautiously for intravascular transplantation. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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