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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 13, Pages 1958-+Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1096/fj.04-2396fje
Keywords
stem cell; plasticity; fusion; epithelium
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In the present study, we aimed to clarify the capacity of human cord blood- and bone marrow-derived progenitor cells to generate gastrointestinal epithelial cells in clinical and experimental transplantation settings. First, in a clinical transplantation setting, gastrointestinal tissues derived from female pediatric or juvenile recipients of allogeneic sex-mismatched bone marrow and cord blood transplantation were examined for the presence of donor-derived epithelial cells. Gastrointestinal specimens of allogeneic recipients included Y chromosome(+) cytokeratin(+) epithelial cells at a frequency of 0.4 - 1.9%. To further determine the capacity of purified human progenitor cells, human cord blood- or bone marrow-derived CD34(+) cells were transplanted into newborn NOD/SCID/beta2-microglobulin(null) mice as an experimental transplantation assay. When gastrointestinal tissues derived from recipient mice were subjected to FISH and immunofluorescence analyses, human epithelial cells were identified at a frequency of 0.24 - 0.58% at 3 months posttransplantation. Finally, double FISH analyses using species-specific probes revealed that human chromosome+ epithelial cells did not possess any murine chromosomes, indicating that donor-derived epithelial cells were not generated only by cell fusion. On the basis of these findings, it is concluded that purified human cord blood and bone marrow CD34(+) progenitor cells can generate gastrointestinal epithelial cells across allogeneic and xenogeneic histocompatibility barriers.
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