Journal
STEM CELLS
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 397-407Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1270
Keywords
Polymicrobial sepsis; Mesenchymal stromal cells; Compact bone; Neutrophils; Bacterial clearance; Cytoprotective
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- National Institutes of Health [RO1HL060788, PO1HL108801-01]
- LRRI-BWH Consortium grant
- Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
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The use of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) for treatment of bacterial infections, including systemic processes like sepsis, is an evolving field of investigation. This study was designed to investigate the potential use of MSCs, harvested from compact bone, and their interactions with the innate immune system, during polymicrobial sepsis induced by cecal ligation and puncture (CLP). We also wanted to elucidate the role of endogenous heme oxygenase (HO)-1 in MSCs during a systemic bacterial infection. MSCs harvested from the bones of HO-1 deficient (-/-) and wild-type (+/+) mice improved the survival of HO-1(-/-) and HO-1(+/+) recipient mice when administered after the onset of polymicrobial sepsis induced by CLP, compared with the administration of fibroblast control cells. The MSCs, originating from compact bone in mice, enhanced the ability of neutrophils to phagocytize bacteria in vitro and in vivo and to promote bacterial clearance in the peritoneum and blood after CLP. Moreover, after depleting neutrophils in recipient mice, the beneficial effects of MSCs were entirely lost, demonstrating the importance of neutrophils for this MSC response. MSCs also decreased multiple organ injury in susceptible HO-1(-/-) mice, when administered after the onset of sepsis. Taken together, these data demonstrate that the beneficial effects of treatment with MSCs after the onset of polymicrobial sepsis is not dependent on endogenous HO-1 expression, and that neutrophils are crucial for this therapeutic response. STEM CELLS 2013;31:397-407
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