期刊
BIOMATERIALS
卷 35, 期 6, 页码 1924-1931出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.11.062
关键词
Spinal cord injury; Cell therapy; ESHU; Antioxidant; Neuroprotection; Repair
资金
- LUMC [30229/5000]
- NIH [5T32EB003392-07]
- NSF [DMR-1206589]
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh
Cell therapy for nervous tissue repair is limited by low transplant survival. We investigated the effects of a polyurethane-based reverse thermal gel, poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(serinol hexamethylene urethane) (ESHU) on bone marrow stromal cell (BMSC) transplant survival and repair using a rat model of spinal cord contusion. Transplantation of BMSCs in ESHU at three days post-contusion resulted in a 3.5-fold increase in BMSC survival at one week post-injury and a 66% increase in spared nervous tissue volume at four weeks post-injury. These improvements were accompanied by enhanced hindlimb motor and sensorimotor recovery. In vitro, we found that ESHU protected BMSCs from hydrogen peroxide-mediated death, resulting in a four-fold increase in BMSC survival with two-fold fewer BMSCs expressing the apoptosis marker, caspase 3 and the DNA oxidation marker, 8-oxo-deoxyguanosine. We argue that ESHU protected BMSCs transplanted is a spinal cord contusion from death thereby augmenting their effects on neuroprotection leading to improved behavioral restoration. The data show that the repair effects of intraneural BMSC transplants depend on the degree of their survival and may have a widespread impact on cell-based regenerative medicine. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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