Combining Injectable Plasma Scaffold with Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells for Repairing Infarct Cavity after Ischemic Stroke

Date

2017-04-01

Authors

Zhang, Hongxia
Sun, Fen
Wang, Jixian
Xie, Luokun
Yang, Chenqi
Pan, Mengxiong
Shao, Bei
Yang, Guo-Yuan
Yang, Shaohua
Zhuge, Qichuan

ORCID

0000-0002-1336-348X (Jin, Kunlin)
0000-0002-0405-0887 (Yang, Shaohua)
0000-0003-1594-6707 (Zhang, Hongxia)

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JKL International

Abstract

Stroke survivors are typically left with structural brain damage and associated functional impairment in the chronic phase of injury, for which few therapeutic options exist. We reported previously that transplantation of human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-derived neural stem cells together with Matrigel scaffolding into the brains of rats after focal ischemia reduced infarct volume and improved neurobehavioral performance. Matrigel is a gelatinous protein mixture extracted from mouse sarcoma cells, thus would not be approved for use as a scaffold clinically. In this study, we generated a gel-like scaffold from plasma that was controlled by changing the concentration of CaCl2. In vitro study confirmed that 10-20 mM CaCl2 and 10-40% plasma did not affect the viability and proliferation of human and rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (BMSCs) and neural stem cells (NSCs). We transplanted plasma scaffold in combination of BMSCs into the cystic cavity after focal cerebral ischemia, and found that the atrophy volume was dramatically reduced and motor function was significantly improved in the group transplanted with scaffold/BMSCs compared with the groups treated with vehicle, scaffold or BMSCs only. Our data suggest that plasma-derived scaffold in combination of BMSCs is feasible for tissue engineering approach for the stroke treatment.

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Zhang, H., Sun, F., Wang, J., Xie, L., Yang, C., Pan, M., Shao, B., Yang, G. Y., Yang, S. H., ZhuGe, Q., & Jin, K. (2017). Combining Injectable Plasma Scaffold with Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells for Repairing Infarct Cavity after Ischemic Stroke. Aging and disease, 8(2), 203-214. https://doi.org/10.14336/AD.2017.0305