1. Intravenous C16 and angiopoietin-1 improve the efficacy of placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy for EAE
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Shu Han, Ke-Wei Tian, Yuanyuan Zhang, and Hong Jiang
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental ,Encephalomyelitis ,Placenta ,lcsh:Medicine ,Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Neurotrophic factors ,Central Nervous System Diseases ,Pregnancy ,medicine ,Angiopoietin-1 ,Low-affinity nerve growth factor receptor ,Animals ,Receptors, Vitronectin ,Receptor ,lcsh:Science ,Author Correction ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,business.industry ,Mesenchymal stem cell ,lcsh:R ,Mesenchymal Stem Cells ,medicine.disease ,Integrin alphaVbeta3 ,Peptide Fragments ,Astrogliosis ,Myelin basic protein ,Rats ,Transplantation ,Disease Models, Animal ,030104 developmental biology ,Pertussis Toxin ,Rats, Inbred Lew ,Cancer research ,biology.protein ,lcsh:Q ,Administration, Intravenous ,Female ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
The placenta has emerged as an attractive source of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) because of the absence of ethical issues, non-invasive access, and abundant yield. However, inflammatory cell invasion into grafts negatively impacts the survival and efficacy of transplanted cells. Previous studies have shown that synthetic C16 peptide can competitively block the transmigration of leukocytes into the central nerve system, while angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) can inhibit inflammation-induced blood vessel leakage and inflammatory cell infiltration in rats with experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). In this study, we investigated the effects of intravenous administration of C16 and Ang-1 on the efficacy of placenta-derived MSC (PMSC) transplantation in a rat model of EAE. We found that, compared with PMSCs alone, treatment with PMSCs along with intravenously administered C16 and Ang-1 was more effective at ameliorating demyelination/neuronal loss and neurological dysfunction, reducing inflammatory cell infiltration, perivascular edema, and reactive astrogliosis (p
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- 2018