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TISSUE & CELL
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2021.101596
Keywords
Spinal cord injury; Induced pluripotent stem cells; Autophagy; Neurogenic bladder; Neural stem cells
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- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [LY19H060008]
- Medical and Health Science and Technology Plan Project of Zhejiang Province [2019RC074]
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The study found that the autophagy inducer rapamycin can enhance the cell activity and differentiation ability of iPSCs into NSCs, improve the motor ability and bladder function of SCI rats. In contrast, the autophagy inhibitor chloroquine has the opposite effects.
The role of autophagy in the transplantation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)-derived neural stem cells (NSCs) to treat spinal cord injury (SCI) and neurogenic bladder was investigated in this study. NSCs derived from human iPSCs were identified by and immunofluorescence assay. To clarify the role of autophagy, iPSCs were treated with either an autophagy inducer (rapamycin), or an autophagy inhibitor (chloroquine). Cell Counting kit-8 (CCK-8), western blot and flow cytometry were used to detect the effect of autophagy on the viability and differentiation of iPSCs. Sixty Wistar rats were selected to establish the SCI model and treated with iPSCs-derived NSCs transplantation. The effect of autophagy on the bladder function of rats with different treatments was evaluated by Basso, Beattie, and Bresnahan (BBB) score, bladder function score, bladder weight measurement, Hematoxylin & Eosin (H&E) staining, and Masson staining. The results of in vitro experiment showed that rapamycin enhanced the cell activity of iPSCs, increased the number of nestin positive cells, up-regulated Beclin-1 and LC3BI/II expressions, and down-regulated p62 expression. And the results of in vivo experiment showed that rapamycin improved exercise ability and bladder function, partially restored bladder weight, and significantly reduced bladder tissue damage in SCI rats. However, chloroquine showed the opposite results. The differentiation of iPSCs into NSCs could be promoted by induced autophagy, while neurogenic bladder of SCI was restored by autophagy activation.
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