Structural and functional improvement of injured brain after severe acute carbon monoxide poisoning by stem cell–based therapy in rats*
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: We investigated the feasibility and efficacy of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs)-derived neural stem-like cells (MS-NSCs) therapy on injured brain in rats after severe acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. DESIGN: Controlled animal study. SETTING: Research laboratory of a university hospital. SUBJECTS: Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 230 +/- 20 g and 90 +/- 10 g. INTERVENTIONS: The rats were exposed to 1000 ppm CO in air for 40 minutes and then to 3000 ppm for another 20 minutes until they lost consciousness. Approximately 7 x 10 allogeneic BMSCs or MS-NSCs labeled with BrdU were infused into the poisoned rats via the internal carotid after a 24-hour resuscitation. The rats with and without CO poisoning were used as placebo and sham controls, respectively. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: The neurologic and cognitive functions were evaluated by Neurologic Severity Scores and Morris water maze tests. Examinations with immunohistochemistry, myelin, and hematoxylin-eosin staining were made to assess cerebral structure after 5 weeks. Histologically, the compactness and arrangement of the insulted white matter were improved by the cellular treatments. The transplanted MS-NSCs were positive for microtubule-associated protein 2 in hippocampus, 84.6% +/- 5.6%, and for glial fibrillary acidic protein in subventricular white matter and hippocampus, 32.2% +/- 2.5% and 9.7% +/- 1.2%, respectively, although the MS-NSCs group showed a larger fraction in the expression of the above markers in corresponding domains compared with the BMSCs group. The MS-NSCs also displayed a higher survival rate than BMSCs in most domains of diffusively injured brain, leading to a better improvement in the Morris water maze test (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The stem cell-based therapy could be advantageous for improving the structure and function of injured brain in rats after severe acute CO poisoning, indicating the potential use as a novel approach for severely CO-poisoned patients with delayed neurologic sequelae. Furthermore, MS-NSCs may render better therapeutic effects after neurologic injury than untreated BMSCs.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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