Journal
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33134-x
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- National Institutes of Health [R01NS116404, R35GM138098]
- Craig H. Neilsen Foundation
- Mission Connect, a project of the TIRR Foundation
- Paralyzed Veterans of America Research Foundation
- Texas A&M University LAUNCH Undergraduate Research Scholars program
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The biological sex of transplanted cells does not significantly affect the outcomes of neural progenitor cell transplantation in spinal cord injury. However, female hosts exhibit a specific immune response to male donor cells. This finding highlights the importance of considering biological sex in future clinical trial designs for cell transplantation.
Despite advancement of neural progenitor cell transplantation to spinal cord injury clinical trials, there remains a lack of understanding of how biological sex of transplanted cells influences outcomes after transplantation. To address this, we transplanted GFP-expressing sex-matched, sex-mismatched, or mixed donor cells into sites of spinal cord injury in adult male and female mice. Biological sex of the donor cells does not influence graft neuron density, glial differentiation, formation of the reactive glial cell border, or graft axon outgrowth. However, male grafts in female hosts feature extensive hypervascularization accompanied by increased vascular diameter and perivascular cell density. We show greater T-cell infiltration within male-to-female grafts than other graft types. Together, these findings indicate a biological sex-specific immune response of female mice to male donor cells. Our work suggests that biological sex should be considered in the design of future clinical trials for cell transplantation in human injury.
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