title: Cardiac stem cells delivered intravascularly traverse the vessel barrier, regenerate infarcted myocardium, and improve cardiac function.
abstract: The ability of cardiac stem cells (CSCs) to promote myocardial repair under clinically relevant conditions (i.e., when delivered intravascularly after reperfusion) is unknown. Thus, rats were subjected to a 90-min coronary occlusion; at 4 h after reperfusion, CSCs were delivered to the coronary arteries via a catheter positioned into the aortic root. Echocardiographic analysis showed that injection of CSCs attenuated the increase in left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic dimensions and impairment in LV systolic performance at 5 weeks after myocardial infarction. Pathologic analysis showed that treated hearts exhibited a smaller increase in LV chamber diameter and volume and a higher wall thickness-to-chamber radius ratio and LV mass-to-chamber volume ratio. CSCs induced myocardial regeneration, decreasing infarct size by 29%. A diploid DNA content and only two chromosomes 12 were found in new cardiomyocytes, indicating that cell fusion did not contribute to tissue reconstitution. In conclusion, intravascular injection of CSCs after reperfusion limits infarct size, attenuates LV remodeling, and ameliorates LV function. This study demonstrates that CSCs are effective when delivered in a clinically relevant manner, a clear prerequisite for clinical translation, and that these beneficial effects are independent of cell fusion. The results establish CSCs as candidates for cardiac regeneration and support an approach in which the heart's own stem cells could be collected, expanded, and stored for subsequent therapeutic repair.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Cardiology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
authors.forename: Buddhadeb
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dawn
authors.forename: Adam B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.forename: Konrad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Urbanek
authors.forename: Marcello
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rota
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Whang
authors.forename: Raffaella
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rastaldo
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Torella
authors.forename: Xian-Liang
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Arash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rezazadeh
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kajstura
authors.forename: Annarosa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leri
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hunt
authors.forename: Jai
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Varma
authors.forename: Sumanth D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Prabhu
authors.forename: Piero
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Anversa
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bolli
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002459:Cell Fusion; D002465:Cell Movement; D004452:Echocardiography; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D012038:Regeneration; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left
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