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Title
Early inflammatory responses following cell grafting in the CNS trigger activation of the subventricular zone : a proposed model of sequential cellular events
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Abstract
While multiple rodent preclinical studies, and to a lesser extent human clinical trials, claim the feasibility, safety, and potential clinical benefit of cell grafting in the central nervous system (CNS), currently only little convincing knowledge exists regarding the actual fate of the grafted cells and their effect on the surrounding environment (or vice versa). Our preceding studies already indicated that only a minor fraction of the initially grafted cell population survives the grafting process, while the surviving cell population becomes invaded by highly activated microglia/macrophages and surrounded by reactive astrogliosis. In the current study, we further elaborate on early cellular and inflammatory events following syngeneic grafting of eGFP(+) mouse embryonic fibroblasts (mEFs) in the CNS of immunocompetent mice. Based on obtained quantitative histological data, we here propose a detailed mathematically derived working model that sequentially comprises hypoxia-induced apoptosis of grafted mEFs, neutrophil invasion, neoangiogenesis, microglia/macrophage recruitment, astrogliosis, and eventually survival of a limited number of grafted mEFs. Simultaneously, we observed that the cellular events following mEF grafting activates the subventricular zone neural stem and progenitor cell compartment. This proposed model therefore further contributes to our understanding of cell graft-induced cellular responses and will eventually allow for successful manipulation of this intervention.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Cell transplantation. - Amsterdam
Publication
Amsterdam : 2015
ISSN
0963-6897
1555-3892
DOI
10.3727/096368914X682800
Volume/pages
24 :8 (2015) , p. 1481-1492
ISI
000359878900006
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UAntwerpen
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Project info
Neural Stem Cells: molecular and physiological control of in vivo migration and differentiation.
Characterisation of innate immune responses in the central nervous system: modulation towards immunological acceptance of allogeneic cellular grafts.
Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases (INMIND).
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 05.10.2015
Last edited 09.10.2023
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