Department of Neurology, Shanghai Tongji hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200065, China; Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, China.
Department of Neurology, Shanghai Tongji hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200065, China.
Brain Res Bull. 2019 Jul;149:42-52. doi: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2019.04.006. Epub 2019 Apr 16.
Although transplantation of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) has shown beneficial effects on stroke, lower survival of MSCs limits effects. Extracellular regulating kinase 1/2 signaling (ERK1/2) is crucial for cell survival, differentiation, and proliferation. This study was designed to explore whether MSCs modified by over-expressing ERK1/2 may reinforce beneficial effects on stroke in rats.
rat MSCs transfected with ERK1/2 and empty lentivirus to generate MSCs overexpressing ERK1/2 (ERK/MSCs) and MSCs (as a control), respectively. In vitro, ERK/MSCs were plated and exposed to glutamate-induced condition, and viability of ERK/MSCs was measured. Furthermore, neural induction of ERK/MSCs was investigated in vitro. Cerebral ischemic rats were induced by occluding middle cerebral artery, and then were stereotaxically injected into ipsilateral right lateral ventricle with ERK/MSCs or MSCs 3 days after stroke and survived for 7 or 14 days after injection.
ERK/MSCs showed better viability in physiological and glutamate-induced neurotoxic conditions compared to MSCs. After neural induction, more neurons were be differentiated from ERK/MSCs than from MSCs. After transplantation, more numbers of grafted cells and improved functional recovery were observed in ERK/MSCs-treated rats compared with MSCs-treated rats. Compared with MSCs treatment, ERK/MSCs treatment significantly increased proliferation of neural stem cells in the subventricle zone (SVZ) and the MAP2/nestin double-labeled cells adjacent to the SVZ, enhanced the numbers of reactive astrocytes while suppressed microglial activation. Besides, TNF-α level was elevated in ERK/MSCs-treated rats.
ERK/MSCs transplantation showed better functional recovery after stroke in rats, likely in part through enhancing survival of MSCs and possibly by modulating the proliferation, neuronal de-differentiation and neuroinflammation.
尽管骨髓间充质干细胞(MSCs)移植已显示出对中风的有益影响,但 MSCs 的存活率较低限制了其效果。细胞外调节激酶 1/2 信号(ERK1/2)对细胞存活、分化和增殖至关重要。本研究旨在探讨过表达 ERK1/2 的 MSCs 是否可增强对大鼠中风的有益影响。
用 ERK1/2 和空载慢病毒转染大鼠 MSCs,分别生成过表达 ERK1/2 的 MSCs(ERK/MSCs)和 MSCs(作为对照)。体外,将 ERK/MSCs 铺板并暴露于谷氨酸诱导的条件下,测量 ERK/MSCs 的活力。此外,还研究了 ERK/MSCs 的体外神经诱导。通过阻断大脑中动脉诱导脑缺血大鼠,在中风后 3 天,通过立体定向将 ERK/MSCs 或 MSCs 注射到对侧右侧侧脑室,然后在注射后 7 或 14 天存活。
与 MSCs 相比,ERK/MSCs 在生理和谷氨酸诱导的神经毒性条件下具有更好的活力。神经诱导后,ERK/MSCs 分化出的神经元多于 MSCs。移植后,ERK/MSCs 治疗组大鼠的移植物细胞数量增加,功能恢复改善,优于 MSCs 治疗组。与 MSCs 治疗相比,ERK/MSCs 治疗可显著增加侧脑室下区(SVZ)中神经干细胞的增殖和 SVZ 附近 MAP2/nestin 双标记细胞的数量,增加反应性星形胶质细胞的数量,同时抑制小胶质细胞的激活。此外,ERK/MSCs 治疗组大鼠的 TNF-α水平升高。
ERK/MSCs 移植可改善大鼠中风后的功能恢复,这可能部分是通过增强 MSCs 的存活,可能通过调节增殖、神经元去分化和神经炎症来实现。