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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-9-1
pubmed:abstractText
Transplantation of adult bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells has been proposed as a strategy for cardiac repair following myocardial damage. However, poor cell viability associated with transplantation has limited the reparative capacity of these cells in vivo. In this study, we genetically engineered rat mesenchymal stem cells using ex vivo retroviral transduction to overexpress the prosurvival gene Akt1 (encoding the Akt protein). Transplantation of 5 x 10(6) cells overexpressing Akt into the ischemic rat myocardium inhibited the process of cardiac remodeling by reducing intramyocardial inflammation, collagen deposition and cardiac myocyte hypertrophy, regenerated 80-90% of lost myocardial volume, and completely normalized systolic and diastolic cardiac function. These observed effects were dose (cell number) dependent. Mesenchymal stem cells transduced with Akt1 restored fourfold greater myocardial volume than equal numbers of cells transduced with the reporter gene lacZ. Thus, mesenchymal stem cells genetically enhanced with Akt1 can repair infarcted myocardium, prevent remodeling and nearly normalize cardiac performance.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1078-8956
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1195-201
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Biological Markers, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Collagen, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Hematopoietic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Injections, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Mesoderm, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Myocardial Infarction, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Myocardial Ischemia, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Myocytes, Cardiac, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Proto-Oncogene Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Retroviridae, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Stem Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-Transduction, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:12910262-beta-Galactosidase
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Mesenchymal stem cells modified with Akt prevent remodeling and restore performance of infarcted hearts.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115 USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't