PTEN基因沉默骨髓间充质干细胞移植治疗急性心肌梗死

PTEN-silenced bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell transplantation for acute myocardial infarction

BACKGROUND:Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell transplantation for myocardial infarction becomes popularized in recent years, but transplanted cells cannot survive and proliferate under early inflammatory reaction or local ischemia/hypoxia microenvironment, eventually hampering the therapeutic outcomes. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the therapeutic effect of PTEN-silenced bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells on acute myocardial infarction. METHODS:(1) Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells from Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to receive no treatment, NCsiRNA transfection using Lipofectamin2000 or PTEN siRNA transfection using Lipofectamin2000. Cell growth curves were described using MTT method to detect cell cycle using flow cytometry. (2) Thirty Sprague-Dawley rats were selected to prepare myocardial infarction models that were randomized into three groups (n=10 per group): blank control, negative control and RNAi group. Six hours after modeling, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells transfected with nothing, NCsiRNA and PTEN siRNA were respectively injected into the infarcted center of the left ventricular anterior wall in these three rat groups. After 4 weeks, all rats were subjected to cardiac function detection using echocardiography, and the survival and proliferation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in the rats were observed by fluorescence microscopy. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Compared with the other two groups, a significant increase in the absorbance values at different culture time, the proportion of cells in S+G2 phase, and the number of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in the myocardial tissue was found in the RNAi group (all P < 0.05). Additionally, the left ventricular ejection fraction and left ventricular shortening fraction were significantly reduced in the RNAi group than the blank control and negative control groups at 4 weeks after cell transplantation (P < 0.05). Both in vivo and in vitro experimental findings showed that PTEN silencing could effectively improve cell survival and proliferation in the infarcted myocardium. Moreover, in the in vivo experiment, an overt improvement in rat’s cardiac function was achieved.