TY - JOUR
T1 - Sodium Iodide Symporter PET and BLI Noninvasively Reveal Mesoangioblast Survival in Dystrophic Mice
AU - Holvoet, Bryan
AU - Quattrocelli, Mattia
AU - Belderbos, Sarah
AU - Pollaris, Lore
AU - Wolfs, Esther
AU - Gheysens, Olivier
AU - Gijsbers, Rik
AU - Vanoirbeek, Jeroen
AU - Verfaillie, Catherine M.
AU - Sampaolesi, Maurilio
AU - Deroose, Christophe M.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank A. Van Santvoort and T. Buelens for their help in data acquisition and processing and H. Grosemans for her help in maintaining the animal colonies and molecular analyses. The radiopharmacy team from the Nuclear Medicine Department at UZ Leuven is acknowledged for 99m TcO 4 − tracer preparations. B.H. is the recipient of a research grant from the IWT-Vlaanderen. O.G. is a senior clinical investigator of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (1831812N). The M.S. Laboratory is supported by the Opening the Future Campaign EJJ-OPTFUT-02010 and FWO (#G060612N, #G0A8813N, and #G088715N). M.S. and C.M.V. would also like to thank Rondoufonds voor Duchenne Onderzoek for the kind donation. The C.M.V. Laboratory is supported by SBO-BRAINSTEM (#60838). We also acknowledge infrastructural funding by the InfraMouse Grant from the Hercules Foundation (ZW09-03).
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© 2015 The Authors.
PY - 2015/12/8
Y1 - 2015/12/8
N2 - Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of myopathies, characterized by muscle weakness and degeneration, without curative treatment. Mesoangioblasts (MABs) have been proposed as a potential regenerative therapy. To improve our understanding of the in vivo behavior of MABs and the effect of different immunosuppressive therapies, like cyclosporine A or co-stimulation-adhesion blockade therapy, on cell survival noninvasive cell monitoring is required. Therefore, cells were transduced with a lentiviral vector encoding firefly luciferase (Fluc) and the human sodium iodide transporter (hNIS) to allow cell monitoring via bioluminescence imaging (BLI) and small-animal positron emission tomography (PET). Non-H2 matched mMABs were injected in the femoral artery of dystrophic mice and were clearly visible via small-animal PET and BLI. Based on noninvasive imaging data, we were able to show that co-stim was clearly superior to CsA in reducing cell rejection and this was mediated via a reduction in cytotoxic T cells and upregulation of regulatory T cells.
AB - Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of myopathies, characterized by muscle weakness and degeneration, without curative treatment. Mesoangioblasts (MABs) have been proposed as a potential regenerative therapy. To improve our understanding of the in vivo behavior of MABs and the effect of different immunosuppressive therapies, like cyclosporine A or co-stimulation-adhesion blockade therapy, on cell survival noninvasive cell monitoring is required. Therefore, cells were transduced with a lentiviral vector encoding firefly luciferase (Fluc) and the human sodium iodide transporter (hNIS) to allow cell monitoring via bioluminescence imaging (BLI) and small-animal positron emission tomography (PET). Non-H2 matched mMABs were injected in the femoral artery of dystrophic mice and were clearly visible via small-animal PET and BLI. Based on noninvasive imaging data, we were able to show that co-stim was clearly superior to CsA in reducing cell rejection and this was mediated via a reduction in cytotoxic T cells and upregulation of regulatory T cells.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.stemcr.2015.10.018
DO - 10.1016/j.stemcr.2015.10.018
M3 - Article
C2 - 26626179
AN - SCOPUS:84949529357
SN - 2213-6711
VL - 5
SP - 1183
EP - 1195
JO - Stem cell reports
JF - Stem cell reports
IS - 6
ER -