Experimental investigation on therapy of intravenous transplantation of neural stem cell for spinal cord injury / 中国矫形外科杂志

ABSTRACT

[Objective] To investigate the immigration and differentiation of neural stem cell in vivo after intravenous transplantation into adult rats with spinal cord injury.[Method]Lower ventricle tissue was obtained from new-born rats aged 14 to 16 days,and the target cells were identified after cultured in vitro,neural stem cells signed by Brdu was injected into model rats of full-cut spinal cord via tail vein one week after injury.CSEP test and BBB function evaluation were conducted 8 weeks later after transplantation.The specimens made from the injured spinal cord of rats were affused with 8% poly formaldehyde,which aimed to get pathology section and imunnohistochemical staining.[Result](1)According to BBB scores,functional recovery was found in injury group and transplantation group but did not reach normal level,while in transplantation group the functional recovers got the better.(2)cerebro-spinal evoked potential(CSEP)in control group and injury group disappeared,and the latency period of CSEP in transplantation group was prolonged,but control group was not interfered.(3)Compared with injury group,a large amount of Brdu positive cells existed at the injured part of spinal cord in the transplant group,which indicated that the engrafted NSCs could survive and migrate into the injured part,and some of them could differentiated into the glial fibriuary acidic protein(GFAP)and NF-200 positive cells that had characteristics of neuron or glial cell.[Conclusion]Neural stem cell can reach the injured part of spinal cord and replace the injured neuron or glial cell via intravenous transplantation,which enable the injured spinal cord to functionally recover to some extent.