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JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY
Volume 64, Issue 5, Pages 1068-1075Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.01.004
Keywords
iPS cells; Hepatocyte; Cell sheet; Transplantation
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- Project for Technological Development, Research Center Network for Realization of Regenerative Medicine of the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) [15fk0310016h004]
- Keihanshin Consortium for Fostering the Next Generation of Global Leaders in Research (K-CONNEX)
- Human Resource Development Program for Science and Technology, MEXT
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [13J02987, 16K01355] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Background & Aims: Hepatocyte transplantation is one of the most attractive approaches for the treatment of patients with liver failure. Because human induced pluripotent stem cell derived hepatocyte-like cells (iPS-HLCs) can be produced on a large scale and generated from a patient with liver failure, they are expected to be used for hepatocyte transplantation. However, when using conventional transplantation methods, i.e., intrasplenic or portal venous infusion, it is difficult to control the engraftment efficiency and avoid unexpected engraftment in other organs because the transplanted cells are delivered into blood circulation before their liver engraftment. Methods: In this study, to resolve these issues, we attempted to employ a cell sheet engineering technology for experimental hepatocyte transplantation. The human iPS-HLC sheets were attached onto the liver surfaces of mice with liver injury. Results: This method reduced unexpected engraftment in organs other than the liver compared to that by intrasplenic transplantation. Human albumin levels in the mice with human iPS-HLC sheets were significantly higher than those in the intrasplenically-transplanted mice, suggesting the high potential for cell engraftment of the sheet transplantation procedure. In addition, human iPS-HLC sheet transplantation successfully ameliorated lethal acute liver injury induced by the infusion of carbon tetrachloride (CCI4). Moreover, we found that the hepatocyte growth factor secreted from the human iPS-HLC sheet played an important role in rescuing of mice from acute hepatic failure. Conclusions: Human iPS-HLC sheet transplantation would be a useful and reliable therapeutic approach for a patient with severe liver diseases. (C) 2016 European Association for the Study of the Liver. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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