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Biomedical Engineering: Current Research

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Hepatocytes Produced from Human Tooth Pulp into Swine with Cirrhosis: Two Transplantations with Time Interval

Author(s): Ken Yaegaki

We treated the liver cirrhosis by two step transplantations of hepatocyte produced from human exfoliated primary tooth (SHED) into the swine with cirrhosis. SHED at three of the passages was separated by magnetic sorting with CD117 antibody. The CD117+SHED hepatic separation was developed in DMEM which is enhanced with insulin-transferrin-selenium-x (ITS-x), incipient organism tropic-factors (ETF) and hepatocyte-development factor (HGF) for five days: IMDM enhanced with ITS-x, ETF, HGF, dexamethasone and endostatin for 11 days. F344-Nude rats were employed for this study. Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) was administrated by intraperitoneal injection for 15 weeks to induce cirrhosis. Hepatocyte-like-cells (2x106 cells/ animal) suspended in Hank`s Balanced Salt Solution were transplanted into the spleen. The vehicle was injected to the positive control group. Non-cirrhosis-models were used as negative control group. Animals were sacrificed for four weeks after the transplantation. Then five weeks later, the second transplantation was carried out, and then the swine were euthanized. Immunocytochemistry perception of the hepatically separated cells unequivocally showed positive recoloring for egg whites, IGF-1,?- feto-protein, HNF4? what's more, CPS-1. The histopathological investigation, HE and Masson???s trichrome recoloring, demonstrated a major abatement of creature tissue inside the transplantation bunch with contrasting with the positive benchmark group. Healthy liver tissues were recovered by the transplantation. Moreover, serological test results revealed significance differences between the groups. Serum ALT levels of the test group dramatically decreased to at least one third compared to the positive control group. Activities of albumin, bilirubin, BUN, HA levels were also recovered. By just one transplantation albumin value was improved, but two steps showed far better improvement. The two stages transplantations of hepatocyte-like cells from human tooth relocated into the liver with serious disappointment showed their ability to perform emphatically on account of radical diminishing fibrous tissues. Together, these findings suggested that two steps transplantation may be a future potential protocol for treating chronic liver injuries like cirrhosis. Stem cells are clonogenic cells capable of self-renewal and multi-lineage differentiation. Post- natal stem cells/adult stem cells were first isolated from bone marrow. They were later isolated from the neural tissue, retina, and even the skin. The bone marrow-derived stem cells are most widely researched and utilized in clinical settings. Dental pulp stem cells (DPSC) were first discovered in the year 2000, from an extracted impacted third molar by Gronthos et al. DPSCs are considered to be cranial neural crest cells (CNCCs). A group of NCCs migrate from the neural crest and is temporally formed between ectoderm and neural plate during neural tube formation. They play an important role in embryo development.


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