期刊
STEM CELLS TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
卷 6, 期 3, 页码 778-787出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.5966/sctm.2016-0206
关键词
Heart transplantation; Endometrial regenerative cells; B lymphocytes; Antibody-mediated rejection; Immunosuppression; Mice
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81273257, 81471584]
- Tianjin Application Basis and Cutting-Edge Technology Research [14JCZDJC35700]
- Li Jieshou Intestinal Barrier Research Special Fund [LJS_ 201412]
- Tianjin Medical University Talent Fund
Endometrial regenerative cells (ERCs) have been recently evaluated as an attractive candidate source for emerging stem cell therapies in immunosuppression, but their role in immunoregulation is not fully understood. The present study was designed to investigate their effects, especially on B-cell responses in heart transplantation. In this study, ERCs were noninvasively obtained from menstrual blood. Heart transplantation was performed between C57BL/6 (H-2(b)) donor mice and BALB/c (H-2(d)) recipients. B-cell activation and antibody levels were determined using fluorescence-activated cell sorting, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and ELISpot. In this study, we demonstrated that ERCs negatively regulated B-cell maturation and activation in vitro without affecting their viability. ERC treatment prolonged cardiac allograft survival in mice, which was correlated with a decrease in IgM and IgG deposition and circulating antidonor antibodies, as well as with reduction in frequencies of antidonor antibody-secreting CD19(+) B cells. In addition, upon ex vivo stimulation, B cells from ERC-treated heart transplant recipients had impaired proliferation capacity and produced less IgM and IgG antibody. Moreover, ERC treatment of mice receiving ovalbumin (OVA)-aluminum hydroxide vaccine resulted in significant lower numbers of anti-OVA IgG antibody-secreting splenic B cells and lower anti-OVA antibody titres. Our results indicate that therapeutic effects of ERCs may be attributed at least in part by their B-cell suppression and humoral response inhibition, suggesting the potential use of ERCs for attenuating antibodymediated allograft rejection.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据