Project description:We had analysed gene expression profile of brain in SCI rat by MSC. Compared with MSC intravenous and vehicle injection at SCI day3. We used Clariom D / Gene Chip® Rat Transcriptome Array (RTA 1.0., Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA).
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in Inflammatory bowel disease rats after MSC transplantation, compared to IBD control rats, and to explore the mechanism of MSC transplantation. A four chip study using total RNA recovered from two separate IBD rats after MSC transplantation and two separate IBD control rats. Each chip measures the expression level of 26,419 genes from normal rat and IBD rat treated with MSC transplantation.
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in Inflammatory bowel disease rats after MSC transplantation, compared to IBD control rats, and to explore the mechanism of MSC transplantation.
Project description:We analyzed the changes in the spinal cord transcriptome after a spinal cord contusion injury and MSC or OEC transplantation. The cells were injected immediately or 7 days after the injury. The mRNA of the spinal cord injured segment was extracted and analyzed by microarray at 2 and 7 days after cell grafting. 52 total samples were analyzed in 13 different groups. Each group include 4 samples and each one were analyzed as a biological replica. The intact animals were used as control of injury. The vehicle (VHC) groups were used as control of transplantation procedure. The MSC or OEC graft were injected at the day of injury (acute graft) or seven days after injury (delayed graft). The samples from engrafted animals were obtained at 2 or 7 days after cell transplantation. To determine the effects of MSC or OEC transplantation, the expression value of each engrafted sample were compared with correspondent VHC group.
Project description:We analyzed the changes in the spinal cord transcriptome after a spinal cord contusion injury and MSC or OEC transplantation. The cells were injected immediately or 7 days after the injury. The mRNA of the spinal cord injured segment was extracted and analyzed by microarray at 2 and 7 days after cell grafting.
Project description:In the present study, we sought to understand the impact of obesity/metabolic disease (high-fat induced) on spinal cord injury (SCI) by examining transcriptome. Adult, male Long Evans rats received either thoracic level contusion of the spinal cord or sham laminectomy and then were allowed to recover on normal rat chow for 4 weeks and further on HFD for an additional 8 weeks. Spinal cord tissues harvested from the rats were processed for Affymetrix microarray and further transcriptomic analysis.
Project description:Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have emerged as potent therapeutic tool for a number of pathologies, including immune ones. However, unwelcome effects of MSC on the blood coagulation were revealed in some cases, which require more in-depth analysis. In this study, we explored the trombotic properties of human MSC from umbilical cord. We revealed strong procoagulant effects of umbilical cord MSC toward human and rat whole blood and platelets-free plasma using rotational thromboelastometry and thrombodynamics tests. The similar potentiation of clotting was demonstrated for MSC-derived extracellular vesicles (EV). In order to suggest approaches to avoid unwanted effects we studied the impact of heparin supplement on MSC/EV procoagulation properties. We found that therapeutic doses of unfractionated heparin injected in the patient's blood (administered in vivo) did not abrogate the procoagulant properties of MSC. Mass-spectrometry analysis of proteins of MSC and EV involved in coagulation-associated pathways was used to evaluate mechanisms of protrombotic effects.
Project description:The present study is intended to disclose the transcriptional profile of the temporal evolution through the different stages after SCI as well as the molecular processes underlying the NPC based-therapy in order to transcriptionally characterize its therapeutical mechanism. This transcriptional profile analysis of total RNA samples from spinal cord homogenates of adult rats (Sprague Dawley) provides tissular (tought not cell-type specific) information of the critical time points after the injury from 1 to 8 weeks (acute, sub-acute and early-chronic and late-chronic stages) which conferred a wide temporal coverage making it ideal for studying the temporal dynamics of SCI. Furthermore, we have evaluated the impact of intramedullary acute or subacute transplantation of NPCs over the transcriptional regulation of the spinal cord tissue in order to define the functional outcomes of the NPCs therapy.
Project description:Engraftment and differentiation of donor hematopoietic stem cells is decisive for the clinical success of allogeneic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) and depends on the recipient’s bone marrow (BM) niche. Presumably, a damaged niche contributes to poor graft function post-alloSCT, but the underlying mechanisms and specifically the role of BM multipotent mesenchymal stroma cells (MSC) are ill defined. Upon multivariate analysis in a cohort of 732 individuals, we observed a reduced presence of proliferation-capable MSC in BM-aspirates from patients (N=196) who had undergone alloSCT (OR 0.61, p=.028). This was confirmed by paired analysis in 30 patients showing a higher frequency of samples with a lack of MSC presence post-alloSCT compared to pre-alloSCT. This reduced MSC presence was associated with reduced survival of patients following alloSCT and specifically with impaired graft function. Post-alloSCT MSC showed diminished in vitro proliferation along with a transcriptional antiproliferative signature, upregulation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and extracellular matrix pathways and abnormal cytokine release in coculture with hematopoietic cells. In order to avoid in-vitro-culture bias we isolated the CD146+/CD45-/HLA-DR- BM cell fraction, which comprised the entire MSC population. The post-alloSCT isolated native CD146+MSC showed a similar reduction in proliferation capacity and shared the same antiproliferative transcriptomic signature as for post-alloSCT adherence-isolated MSC. Taken together, our data show that alloSCT confers damage to the proliferative capacity of native MSC, which is associated with reduced patient survival after alloSCT and impaired engraftment of allogeneic hematopoiesis. These data represent the basis to elucidate mechanisms of BM-niche reconstitution post-alloSCT and its therapeutic manipulation.
Project description:We conducted a time-course RNA-seq of spinal cord segments at the lesion site without or with hUC-MSC treatment at subacute phase of SCI to identify genes involved in hUC-MSC-mediated recovery