Effect of umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cell transplantation on myocardial cell apoptosis
10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2016.14.022
- VernacularTitle:脐血间充质干细胞移植对心肌细胞凋亡的影响
- Author:
Yanli WANG
;
Jinfeng LI
;
Yanping WANG
;
Ming GAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2016;20(14):2123-2128
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND:Umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cel transplantation can reduce myocardial apoptosis and myocardial fibrosis, thereby improving the cardiac function. OBJECTIVE:To observe the effect of umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cel transplantation on myocardial apoptosis in rats. METHODS:(1) In vitro test:Normal myocardial cel s cultured for 72 hours were enrol ed as control group. Myocardial cel s injured by adriamycin alone were enrol ed as injury group. Adriamycin-injured myocardial cel s were co-cultured with umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cel s as co-culture group. After 48 hours of culture, TUNEL assay was used to assess myocardial apoptosis in rats. (2) In vivo test:Forty-five Sprague-Dawley rats were randomized into normal control, adriamycin, and umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cel transplantation (cel transplantation) groups. Two weeks after cel transplantation, PowerLab was used to test cardiac function, and western blot employed to detect Bax and Caspase-3 expression levels. Meanwhile, pathological changes of the myocardial tissues were observed in the three groups. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:(1) In vitro test:The apoptotic rate of myocardial cel s was significantly increased in the injury group compared with the control group, but decreased significantly in the co-culture group compared with the injury group (P<0.05). (2) In vivo test:In the cel transplantation group, the cardiac function indexes, expression levels of Bax and Caspase-3 and myocardial infarction size were significantly improved compared with the adriamycin group (P<0.05), but stil not recovered to the normal levels (P<0.05). These results show that umbilical cord blood mesenchymal stem cel s acting on the rat myocardial cel s can inhibit adriamycin-induced myocardial apoptosis, and the relevant mechanism is probably related to down-regulation of Bax and caspase-3 expression.
