脐血间充质干细胞体外培养方法的改良及其成骨分化能力

目的:采用两种改良方法体外分离培养脐血间充质干细胞,并观察其成骨分化能力。方法:实验于2006-05/09在上海交通大学医学院附属第九人民医院骨与关节中心细胞实验室完成。①所用28份脐血标本由复旦大学医学院附属妇产科医院提供,取自足月健康顺产新生儿,产妇和家属均书面同意,实验经医学伦理委员会批准。②采集28份脐血标本,50～90mL/份,枸橼酸抗凝。采集后12h内密度梯度离心法分离出单个核细胞,接种于100mm×20mm培养皿中,细胞浓度为1×1010L-1,置于含体积分数为0.1胎牛血清的α-MEM培养液中原代培养,5～7d后半量换液,后每隔3～4d全量换液一次。③细胞贴壁后,分两组予以改良培养。改良1组10份,当培养皿底圆形巨核细胞融合、梭形成纤维样细胞脱落时将细胞悬液移入新的培养皿中培养;改良2组18份,待培养皿底圆形巨核细胞渐渐占据优势时,将培养基更换为含体积分数为0.15小牛血清的α-MEM,当圆形巨核细胞大部脱落后换回含体积分数为0.1胎牛血清的α-MEM培养基。成纤维样细胞融合至80%～90%时胰酶消化,按1∶2或1∶3传代培养。④显微镜下观察脐血间充质干细胞的形态。取第5代脐血间充质干细胞,采用流式细胞仪测定细胞免疫表型,以碱性磷酸酶法检测成骨分化能力。结果:①28份脐血间充质干细胞中,共20份原代培养中出现贴壁细胞(改良1组6份,改良2组14份),其中13份培养出能融合且可稳定传代的成纤维样细胞(改良1组4份,改良2组9份),成功率46.4%。②原代培养5～7d后贴壁细胞呈梭形成纤维样细胞和圆形巨核细胞。改良1组与2组于原代培养5周可见成纤维样细胞集落,细胞形态与骨髓间充质干细胞相似,呈较均一的长梭形,传至22代形态无明显变化。③可强烈表达CD29、CD105等间充质干细胞表面标志,而不表达CD34、CD45和CD106等造血干细胞和内皮细胞标志。④成骨诱导1周,脐血间充质干细胞可分化为成骨细胞,碱性磷酸酶染色呈阳性。结论:脐血中存在的单个核细胞经过改良培养后,可提高脐血间充质干细胞的培养成功率。脐血间充质干细胞具有与其他来源的单个核细胞类似的表型及成骨分化潜能,且易于体外扩增、传代稳定。     

Levels of neurotrophic factors in the hippocampus and amygdala correlate with anxiety- and fear-related behaviour in C57BL6 mice

The present study tested whether individual differences in anxiety- and fear-related behaviour are associated with between-subjects variation in postmortem brain levels of selected neurotrophic factors. Na?ve C57BL6/J mice of both sexes were subjected either to an elevated plus maze test or to a Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigm. Two days after behavioural assays, the mice were sacrificed for postmortem quantification of the protein levels of brain derived neurotrophic factors (BDNF), nerve growth factor (NGF) and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) in the hippocampus and amygdala. Significant correlations between behavioural measures and postmortem regional neurotrophic factor contents were revealed. The magnitude of anxiety-like behaviour in the elevated plus maze was positively related to dorsal hippocampal BDNF levels, but negatively related to NGF levels in dorsal hippocampus and in the amygdala. On the other hand, the expression of conditioned fear is positively related to amygdala BDNF and NGF levels, and to dorsal hippocampal NGF levels. Our results add to existing reports in human as well as in animals of correlation between anxiety trait and gross measures of hippocampal volume or activation levels. Moreover, a distinction between spontaneous and learned (or conditioned) anxiety/fear would be relevant to the identification of neurotrophin signalling mechanisms in the hippocampus and amygdala implicated in anxiety and related psychopathology.     

Percutaneous insertion of the Kimray-Greenfield filter: technical considerations and problems

Kimray-Greenfield filters were inserted percutaneously into the inferior vena cava (IVC) in 57 patients. Thirty-six were placed from the right femoral vein, 14 from the left femoral vein, and seven from the right internal jugular vein. There were no deaths or major complications and only six minor complications. Inferior vena cavography was done before filter insertion in all cases. Cavography is vital to determine feasibility of filter insertion, route of insertion, and filter location; pertinent findings include caval size, presence or absence of clot in the IVC or iliac veins, and position of the renal veins. The guide wire provided with the standard filter introduction set has a tendency to catch on the filter as the wire is withdrawn. A stiff wire with a straight, tapered, floppy tip was substituted. The femoral approach is preferred when it is feasible. Though there was only one known occurrence of femoral vein thrombosis at the filter insertion site, other cases may have occurred and may not have been detected. If the frequency of this complication proves to be significant, the preferred route for filter insertion may have to be reconsidered.     

The effects of chronic administration of ceronapril on the partial reinforcement extinction effect and latent inhibition in rats

Previous experiments showed that acute administration of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, ceronapril, shares with neuroleptic drugs an ability to enhance latent inhibition (LI), which consists of retardation in conditioning to a stimulus as a consequence of its prior non-reinforced pre-exposure. Experiment 1 tested whether ceronapril would produce a neuroleptic-like effect in the partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE) at one trial a day. The PREE refers to the increased resistance to extinction observed in animals trained on a partial reinforcement (PRF) schedule compared with those trained on a schedule of continuous reinforcement (CRF). Two groups of rats were trained to run in a straight alley. The CRF group received food reward on every trial. The PRF group was rewarded on a quasi-random 50% schedule. All animals were then tested in extinction in which no reward was given. Ceronapril at a dose of 0.05mg/kg was administered in a 2 x 2 design, with drug or no drug in acquisition and drug or no drug in extinction. Rats receiving vehicle in acquisition showed a PREE, regardless of their drug treatment in extinction. In contrast, ceronapril administered in acquisition attenuated the PREE irrespective of drug treatment in extinction, by both increasing resistance to extinction in CRF animals and decreasing resistance to extinction in PRF animals. This pattern of results does not resemble that produced by neuroleptics. The PREE procedure necessitated repeated administration of ceronapril whereas the previous demonstrations of neuroleptic-like enhancement of LI have been obtained with acute administration. Experiment 2 therefore tested the effects of chronic ceronapril administration on LI. Under these conditions, ceronapril abolished LI. The results are discussed in relation to the antipsychotic, anti-anxiety and cognitive-enhancing effects formerly attributed to ACE inhibitors.     

Disruption of prepulse inhibition following N-methyl-D-aspartate infusion into the ventral hippocampus is antagonized by clozapine but not by haloperidol: a possible model for the screening of atypical antipsychotics

The present study tested the effects of the typical neuroleptic haloperidol and an atypical neuroleptic clozapine on ventral hippocampus stimulation-induced disruption of prepulse inhibition (PPI). Bilateral infusions of 0.7 microg NMDA into the ventral hippocampus disrupted PPI. The impairment of PPI following the infusion was completely normalized 24 h after the infusion. This disruption of PPI was antagonized by clozapine (5.0 mg/kg), but not by haloperidol (0.2 mg/kg). Since disruption of PPI is considered to constitute an animal model of schizophrenia that is related to the deficit of sensorimotor gating observed in schizophrenic patients, these results suggest that PPI disruption induced by intra-ventral hippocampal infusions of NMDA may serve as an animal model for the selective detection of atypical antipsychotics.     

Low-dose clozapine pretreatment partially prevents haloperidol-induced deficits in conditioned active avoidance

The effectiveness of neuroleptics in disrupting conditioned active avoidance has led to the widespread use of this test as an index of antipsychotic efficacy, whereas the tendency for these drugs to induce catalepsy is believed to reflect their propensity to cause extrapyramidal motor side-effects. Although the typical neuroleptic haloperidol produces catalepsy as well as profound deficits in conditioned active avoidance, the atypical neuroleptic clozapine does not induce catalepsy and is less effective than haloperidol in disrupting active avoidance. Furthermore, clozapine pretreatment prevents haloperidol-induced catalepsy. We investigated whether clozapine pretreatment might also reduce the disruptive effects of haloperidol on two-way active avoidance. We assessed the avoidance acquisition of the following drug treatment groups in which all animals received two injections prior to testing: vehicle + vehicle, vehicle + haloperidol (0.1 mg/kg, i.p.), clozapine (2.5, 5.0 or 10 mg/kg, i.p.) + haloperidol (0.1 mg/kg, i.p.), or clozapine (2.5, 5.0 or 10 mg/kg, i.p.) + vehicle. Haloperidol-pretreated animals showed markedly impaired active avoidance, deficits which were improved by 2.5 and 5 mg/kg but not by 10 mg/kg clozapine pretreatment. These data suggest that the disruptive effects of haloperidol on conditioned active avoidance partially mirror its capacity to induce catalepsy and extrapyramidal motor symptoms. Furthermore, this study indicates that clozapine may be effective in reducing motor side-effects caused by typical neuroleptics.     

Expression of CYP1B1 but not CYP1A1 by primary cultured human mammary stromal fibroblasts constitutively and in response to dioxin exposure: role of the Ah receptor

The expression of CYP1B1 in human mammary fibroblasts (HMFs) was characterized as a potential modulator of their individual function as well as effects on adjacent mammary epithelia. We have used these characteristics to explore the diversity of fibroblast cells isolated from reduction mammoplasty patients and from different breast locations in breast cancer patients (tumors, peripheral to tumor and skin). These parameters have also been used to examine differences between two donors. The results have shown that while none of these HMFs expressed a detectable CYP1A1 protein basally or in response to TCDD, they all expressed CYP1B1 constitutively at similar levels (0.5-0.9 pmol/mg microsomal proteins) and they were induced by TCDD (up to 5-fold) consistent with mediation by the Ah receptor (AhR). DMBA metabolism by HMFs exhibited high proportions of 5,6-, 10,11- and 3,4-dihydrodiols, a profile that is typical of human CYP1B1 regioselectivity. RT-PCR followed by Southern blot analyses demonstrated that CYP1B1 mRNA expression in HMFs parallels levels of respective microsomal proteins. The AhR is expressed in these HMFs as two cytosolic forms (approximately 106 and 104 kDa) and a substantial proportion of the 104 kDa form was localized to the nucleus even prior to TCDD treatment. In all HMFs isolated directly from collagenase digested breast tissues the AhR is expressed at levels 10-fold lower than in breast epithelial cells. However, HMFs that were isolated after serial passaging of mammary epithelial cultures had shown much higher levels of the AhR expression and more dramatic TCDD-induced down-regulation (>80% in 24 h) associated with more efficient nuclear translocation. These differences suggested the presence of two functionally distinct subtypes of HMFs: interstitial stromal fibroblasts that are readily released by collagenase digestion of breast tissues, and lobular stromal fibroblasts which are more tightly associated with the breast epithelia.