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Assessment of Short-Term Engraftment Potential of Ex Vivo Expanded Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using Normal Fetal Mouse in Utero Transplantation Model
OBJECTIVE: Ex vivo expansion is a promising strategy to overcome the low number of human umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cells (hUCB-HSCs). Although based on the obtained results in unnatural physiological condition of irradiated genetically immune-deficient mouse models, there has always be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582413/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31210431 http://dx.doi.org/10.22074/cellj.2019.6006 |
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author | Zarrabi, Morteza Afzal, Elaheh Asghari, Mohammad Hassan Ebrahimi, Marzieh |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Ex vivo expansion is a promising strategy to overcome the low number of human umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cells (hUCB-HSCs). Although based on the obtained results in unnatural physiological condition of irradiated genetically immune-deficient mouse models, there has always been concern that the expanded cells have less engraftment potential. The purpose of this study was to investigate effect of common ex vivo expansion method on engraftment potential of hUCB-mononuclear cells (MNCs), using normal fetal mouse, as a model with more similarity to human physiological conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this experimental study, briefly, isolated hUCB-MNCs were cultured in common expansion medium containing stem cell factor, Flt3 ligand and thrombopoietin. The unexpanded and expanded cells were transplanted to the fetal mice on gestational days of 11.5-13.5. After administration of human hematopoiesis growth factors (hHGFs), presence of human CD45(+) cells, in the peripheral blood of recipients, was assessed at various time points after transplantation. RESULTS: The expanded MNCs showed 32-fold increase in the expression of CD34+38- phenotype and about 3-fold higher clonogenic potential as compared to the uncultured cells. Four weeks after transplantation, 73% (19/26) of expanded-cell recipients and 35% (7/20) of unexpanded-cell recipients were found to be successfully engrafted with human CD45(+) cells. The engraftment level of expanded MNCs was significantly (1.8-fold) higher than unexpanded cells. After hHGFs administration, the level was increased to 3.2, 3.8 and 2.6-fold at respectively 8, 12, and 16 weeks of post transplantation. The increased expression of CXCR4 protein in expanded MNCs is a likely explanation for the present findings. CONCLUSION: The presented data showed that expanded MNCs compared to unexpended cells are capable of more rapid and higher short-term engraftment in normal fetal mouse. It could also be suggested that in utero transplantation (IUT) of normal fetal mice could be an appropriate substitute for NOD/SCID mice in xenotransplantation studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-65824132019-09-01 Assessment of Short-Term Engraftment Potential of Ex Vivo Expanded Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using Normal Fetal Mouse in Utero Transplantation Model Zarrabi, Morteza Afzal, Elaheh Asghari, Mohammad Hassan Ebrahimi, Marzieh Cell J Research Article OBJECTIVE: Ex vivo expansion is a promising strategy to overcome the low number of human umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cells (hUCB-HSCs). Although based on the obtained results in unnatural physiological condition of irradiated genetically immune-deficient mouse models, there has always been concern that the expanded cells have less engraftment potential. The purpose of this study was to investigate effect of common ex vivo expansion method on engraftment potential of hUCB-mononuclear cells (MNCs), using normal fetal mouse, as a model with more similarity to human physiological conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this experimental study, briefly, isolated hUCB-MNCs were cultured in common expansion medium containing stem cell factor, Flt3 ligand and thrombopoietin. The unexpanded and expanded cells were transplanted to the fetal mice on gestational days of 11.5-13.5. After administration of human hematopoiesis growth factors (hHGFs), presence of human CD45(+) cells, in the peripheral blood of recipients, was assessed at various time points after transplantation. RESULTS: The expanded MNCs showed 32-fold increase in the expression of CD34+38- phenotype and about 3-fold higher clonogenic potential as compared to the uncultured cells. Four weeks after transplantation, 73% (19/26) of expanded-cell recipients and 35% (7/20) of unexpanded-cell recipients were found to be successfully engrafted with human CD45(+) cells. The engraftment level of expanded MNCs was significantly (1.8-fold) higher than unexpanded cells. After hHGFs administration, the level was increased to 3.2, 3.8 and 2.6-fold at respectively 8, 12, and 16 weeks of post transplantation. The increased expression of CXCR4 protein in expanded MNCs is a likely explanation for the present findings. CONCLUSION: The presented data showed that expanded MNCs compared to unexpended cells are capable of more rapid and higher short-term engraftment in normal fetal mouse. It could also be suggested that in utero transplantation (IUT) of normal fetal mice could be an appropriate substitute for NOD/SCID mice in xenotransplantation studies. Royan Institute 2019 2019-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6582413/ /pubmed/31210431 http://dx.doi.org/10.22074/cellj.2019.6006 Text en The Cell Journal (Yakhteh) is an open access journal which means the articles are freely available online for any individual author to download and use the providing address. The journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License which allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions that is permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Zarrabi, Morteza Afzal, Elaheh Asghari, Mohammad Hassan Ebrahimi, Marzieh Assessment of Short-Term Engraftment Potential of Ex Vivo Expanded Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using Normal Fetal Mouse in Utero Transplantation Model |
title | Assessment of Short-Term Engraftment Potential of Ex Vivo
Expanded Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using Normal Fetal
Mouse in Utero Transplantation Model |
title_full | Assessment of Short-Term Engraftment Potential of Ex Vivo
Expanded Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using Normal Fetal
Mouse in Utero Transplantation Model |
title_fullStr | Assessment of Short-Term Engraftment Potential of Ex Vivo
Expanded Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using Normal Fetal
Mouse in Utero Transplantation Model |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of Short-Term Engraftment Potential of Ex Vivo
Expanded Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using Normal Fetal
Mouse in Utero Transplantation Model |
title_short | Assessment of Short-Term Engraftment Potential of Ex Vivo
Expanded Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using Normal Fetal
Mouse in Utero Transplantation Model |
title_sort | assessment of short-term engraftment potential of ex vivo
expanded hematopoietic stem cells using normal fetal
mouse in utero transplantation model |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582413/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31210431 http://dx.doi.org/10.22074/cellj.2019.6006 |
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