title: Human skeletal muscle cells with a slow adhesion rate after isolation and an enhanced stress resistance improve function of ischemic hearts.
abstract: Identification of cells that are endowed with maximum potency could be critical for the clinical success of cell-based therapies. We investigated whether cells with an enhanced efficacy for cardiac cell therapy could be enriched from adult human skeletal muscle on the basis of their adhesion properties to tissue culture flasks following tissue dissociation. Cells that adhered slowly displayed greater myogenic purity and more readily differentiated into myotubes in vitro than rapidly adhering cells (RACs). The slowly adhering cell (SAC) population also survived better than the RAC population in kinetic in vitro assays that simulate conditions of oxidative and inflammatory stress. When evaluated for the treatment of a myocardial infarction (MI), intramyocardial injection of the SACs more effectively improved echocardiographic indexes of left ventricular (LV) remodeling and contractility than the transplantation of the RACs. Immunohistological analysis revealed that hearts injected with SACs displayed a reduction in myocardial fibrosis and an increase in infarct vascularization, donor cell proliferation, and endogenous cardiomyocyte survival and proliferation in comparison with the RAC-treated hearts. In conclusion, these results suggest that adult human skeletal muscle-derived cells are inherently heterogeneous with regard to their efficacy for enhancing cardiac function after cardiac implantation, with SACs outperforming RACs.
authors: Stem Cell Research Center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors: Masaho
authors: M
authors: Okada
authors: Thomas R
authors: TR
authors: Payne
authors: Lauren
authors: L
authors: Drowley
authors: Ron J
authors: RJ
authors: Jankowski
authors: Nobuo
authors: N
authors: Momoi
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: Beckman
authors: William C W
authors: WC
authors: Chen
authors: Bradley B
authors: BB
authors: Keller
authors: Kimimasa
authors: K
authors: Tobita
authors: Johnny
authors: J
authors: Huard
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000235:genetics; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000235:genetics; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000473:pathology; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D016130:Immunophenotyping; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D016688:Mice, Inbred NOD; D016513:Mice, SCID; D008875:Middle Aged; D018485:Muscle Fibers, Skeletal / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000637:transplantation*; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000378:metabolism / Q000628:therapy*; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D018919:Neovascularization, Physiologic; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D013312:Stress, Physiological
chemical_list: D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins