TY - JOUR
T1 - Monitoring transplanted adipose tissue-derived stem cells combined with heparin in the liver by fluorescence imaging using quantum dots
AU - Yukawa, Hiroshi
AU - Watanabe, Masaki
AU - Kaji, Noritada
AU - Okamoto, Yukihiro
AU - Tokeshi, Manabu
AU - Miyamoto, Yoshitaka
AU - Noguchi, Hirofumi
AU - Baba, Yoshinobu
AU - Hayashi, Shuji
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is partially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through its “Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST Program)".
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - Adipose tissue-derived stem cell (ASC) transplantation, when used in combination with heparin, has proven to be an effective treatment for acute liver failure in mice. However, the behavior and organ-specific accumulation of transplanted ASCs alone or in combination with heparin is poorly understood. In this paper, we investigated whether quantum dots (QDs) labeling using octa-arginine peptide (R8) for ASCs could be applied for invivo fluorescence imaging in mice with acute liver failure, and analyzed the behavior and organ-specific accumulation of ASCs that were transplanted alone or in combination with heparin using an IVIS ® Spectrum analysis. Almost all of the transplanted ASCs were observed to accumulate in the lungs within 10min without heparin. However, when heparin was used in combination with the ASCs, the accumulation of the transplanted ASCs was found not only in the lungs but also in the liver. The region of interest (ROI) analysis of exvivo fluorescence imaging showed that the accumulation rate of transplanted ASCs in the liver increased to about 30%. In the time course analysis, the accumulation rate of ASCs in the liver was about 10% in 1 day and was maintained at that level for at least 2 day. We observed that heparin was effective for increasing the accumulation of transplanted ASCs in the liver using fluorescence imaging technology. We suggest that fluorescence imaging by means of QDs labeling using R8 can be useful for tracing the transplanted cells.
AB - Adipose tissue-derived stem cell (ASC) transplantation, when used in combination with heparin, has proven to be an effective treatment for acute liver failure in mice. However, the behavior and organ-specific accumulation of transplanted ASCs alone or in combination with heparin is poorly understood. In this paper, we investigated whether quantum dots (QDs) labeling using octa-arginine peptide (R8) for ASCs could be applied for invivo fluorescence imaging in mice with acute liver failure, and analyzed the behavior and organ-specific accumulation of ASCs that were transplanted alone or in combination with heparin using an IVIS ® Spectrum analysis. Almost all of the transplanted ASCs were observed to accumulate in the lungs within 10min without heparin. However, when heparin was used in combination with the ASCs, the accumulation of the transplanted ASCs was found not only in the lungs but also in the liver. The region of interest (ROI) analysis of exvivo fluorescence imaging showed that the accumulation rate of transplanted ASCs in the liver increased to about 30%. In the time course analysis, the accumulation rate of ASCs in the liver was about 10% in 1 day and was maintained at that level for at least 2 day. We observed that heparin was effective for increasing the accumulation of transplanted ASCs in the liver using fluorescence imaging technology. We suggest that fluorescence imaging by means of QDs labeling using R8 can be useful for tracing the transplanted cells.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.12.009
DO - 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.12.009
M3 - Article
C2 - 22192539
AN - SCOPUS:84855740277
SN - 0142-9612
VL - 33
SP - 2177
EP - 2186
JO - Biomaterials
JF - Biomaterials
IS - 7
ER -