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THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS
Volume 101, Issue 3, Pages 460-464Publisher
GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG
DOI: 10.1160/TH08-07-0453
Keywords
Venous thrombosis; cell therapy; neovascularisation; endothelial progenitor cells; macrophages
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- Swiss National Foundation [3200B0-114100]
- Swiss Heart Foundation
- University of Bern, Switzerland
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Endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) are involved in many healing processes in cardiovascular diseases and can be found in spontaneously resolving venous thrombi. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the therapeutic administration of EPC might enhance the resolution of venous thrombi. For this purpose, venous thrombosis was induced in the infrarenal inferior vena cava (IVC) in 28 athymic nude rats. Culture expanded EPC derived from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells were injected intravenously two and four days after thrombus induction. Recanalisation of the IVC and thrombus organisation were assessed by laser Doppler measurements of the blood flow and immunohistochemical detection of endothelialised luminal structures in the thrombus. EPC transplantation resulted in significantly enhanced thrombus neovascularisation (capillary density: 186.6 +/- 26.7/HPF vs. 78 +/- 12.3/HPF, P<0.01; area covered by capillaries: 8.9 +/- 1.7 mu m(2) vs. 2.5 +/- 1.3 mu m(2), p<0.01) and was accompanied by a substantial increase in intra-thrombus blood flow (perfusion ratio: 0.7 +/- 0.07 vs. 0.3 +/- 0.08, p<0.02). These results were paralleled by augmented macrophage recruitment into resolving thrombi in the animals treated with EPC (39.4 +/- 4.7/HPF vs. 11.6 +/- 1.9/HPF, p<0.01). Our data suggest that EPC transplantation might be of clinical value to facilitate venous thrombus resolution in cases where current therapeutic options have limited success.
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