Stem cell-mediated natural tissue engineering.

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
H MöllmannA Elsässer

Abstract

Recently, we demonstrated that a fully differentiated tissue developed on a ventricular septal occluder that had been implanted due to infarct-related septum rupture. We suggested that this tissue originated from circulating stem cells. The aim of the present study was to evaluate this hypothesis and to investigate the physiological differentiation and transdifferentiation potential of circulating stem cells. We developed an animal model in which a freely floating membrane was inserted into each the left ventricle and the descending aorta. Membranes were removed after pre-specified intervals of 3 days, and 2, 6 and 12 weeks; the newly developed tissue was evaluated using quantitative RT-PCR, immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. The contribution of stem cells was directly evaluated in another group of animals that were by treated with granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) early after implantation. We demonstrated the time-dependent generation of a fully differentiated tissue composed of fibroblasts, myofibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, endothelial cells and new blood vessels. Cells differentiated into early cardiomyocytes on membranes implanted in the left ventricles but not on those implanted in t...Continue Reading

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Datasets Mentioned

BETA
GM-CSF

Methods Mentioned

BETA
light microscopy
PCR
in vitro transcription
Electron microscopy
fluorescence-activated cell sorting

Software Mentioned

Image J
FastPCR
GraphPad Prism
Bitplane
GraphPad

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