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ANNALS OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AME PUBL CO
DOI: 10.21037/atm.2020.03.144
Keywords
Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs); convalescent cerebral ischemia; Nogo-A
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- Natural Science Funds of China [81400943]
- Engineering Technology Research Center of Education Ministry of China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory on Brain Function Repair and Regeneration
- Department of Neurosurgery, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University in China
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Background: To investigate the effects of intravenous transplantation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) on neurological function in rats with experimentally-induced convalescent cerebral ischemia and the expression of Nogo-A, NgR, Rhoa, and ROCK expression. Methods: BMSCs were isolated and cultured in vitro using the whole bone marrow adherent method. Eighty-one adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided at random into three groups: the sham-operated group, the cerebral ischemia group, and the BMSC treatment group (n=27 rats per group). In the latter two groups, the middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model was performed by the modified Zea Longa method. After MCAO, rats in the sham-operated and cerebral ischemic groups were injected with 1 mL of phosphate buffered saline (PBS) via the tail vein. In the BMSC-treatment group, 1 mL of the BMSC suspension (containing 3x10(6) BMSCs) was injected through the rats' femoral vein. At 12, 24, and 72 h after BMSC transplantation, modified neurological deficit scores (mNSS) were used to assess neurological function. TTC (2,3,5-triphenyl tetrazolium chloride) staining was used to measure the ischemic lesion volume, and the distribution of Nogo-A protein was observed by immunohistochemistry. The expressions of Nogo-A, NgR, Rhoa, and ROCK were detected by Western blot. Results: At 72 h after BMSC transplantation, the mNSS scores were significantly lower in the BMSC treatment group than those in the cerebral ischemia group (7.50 +/- 0.55 vs. 8.67 +/- 0.52, P<0.01), and the ischemic lesions volume was significantly reduced. The expressions of Nogo-A, NgR, RhoA, and ROCK were significantly decreased compared with the controls (P<0.05). Conclusions: The transplantation of BMSCs can improve neurological function in rats after convalescent cerebral ischemia, and their therapeutic effect may be related to the downregulation of Nogo-A, NgR, RhoA, and ROCK expression.
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