PAMAM Dendrimer-Baculovirus Nanocomplex for Microencapsulated Adipose Stem Cell-Gene Therapy: <i>In Vitro</i> and <i>in Vivo</i> Functional Assessment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The present study aims to develop a new stem cell based gene delivery system consisting of human adipose tissue derived stem cells (hASCs) genetically modified with self-assembled nanocomplex of recombinant baculovirus and PAMAM dendrimer (Bac-PAMAM) to overexpress the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Cells were enveloped into branched PEG surface functionalized polymeric microcapsules for efficient transplantation. In vitro analysis confirmed efficient transduction of hASCs expressing 7.65 ± 0.86 ng functionally active VEGF per 10(6) microencapsulated hASCs (ASC-VEGF). To determine the potential of the developed system, chronically infarcted rat hearts were treated with either empty microcapsules (MC), microencapsulated hASCs expressing MGFP reporter protein (MC+ASC-MGFP), or MC+ASC-VEGF, and analyzed for 10 weeks. Post-transplantation data confirmed higher myocardial VEGF expressions with significantly enhanced neovasculature in the MC+ASC-VEGF group. In addition, the cardiac performance, as measured by percentage ejection fraction, also improved significantly in the MC+ASC-VEGF group (48.6 ± 6.1%) compared to that in MC+ASC-MGFP (38.8 ± 5.3%) and MC groups (31.5 ± 3.3%). Collectively, these data demonstrate the feasibility of this system for improved stem cell therapy applications.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".