Intracoronary Delivery of Porcine Cardiac Progenitor Cells Overexpressing IGF-1 and HGF in a Pig Model of Sub-Acute Myocardial Infarction

Human cardiac progenitor cells (hCPC) are considered a good candidate in cell therapy for ischemic heart disease, demonstrating capacity to improve functional recovery after myocardial infarction (MI), both in small and large preclinical animal models. However, improvements are required in terms of...

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Autores: Prat-Vidal, Cristina|||0000-0002-5621-1101, Crisóstomo, Verónica|||0000-0003-1740-7029, Moscoso, Isabel|||0000-0002-6078-4666, Báez-Díaz, Claudia, Blanco-Blázquez, Virginia|||0000-0003-1971-919X, Gómez-Mauricio, Guadalupe, Albericio, Guillermo, Aguilar, Susana, Fernández-Santos, María-Eugenia|||0000-0001-9229-0022, Fernández Avilés, Francisco|||0000-0001-5501-5275, Sánchez Margallo, Francisco Miguel|||0000-0003-2138-988X, Bayés-Genís, Antoni|||0000-0002-3044-197X, Bernad, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:302772
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/302772
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/cells10102571
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cardiac progenitor cell
IGF-1
HGF
Lentiviral vectors
Decellularized extracellular matrix
Porcine large animal model
Myocardial infarction
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Sumario:Human cardiac progenitor cells (hCPC) are considered a good candidate in cell therapy for ischemic heart disease, demonstrating capacity to improve functional recovery after myocardial infarction (MI), both in small and large preclinical animal models. However, improvements are required in terms of cell engraftment and efficacy. Based on previously published reports, insulin-growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) have demonstrated substantial cardioprotective, repair and regeneration activities, so they are good candidates to be evaluated in large animal model of MI. We have validated porcine cardiac progenitor cells (pCPC) and lentiviral vectors to overexpress IGF-1 (co-expressing eGFP) and HGF (co-expressing mCherry). pCPC were transduced and IGF1-eGFP pos and HGF-mCherry pos populations were purified by cell sorting and further expanded. Overexpression of IGF-1 has a limited impact on pCPC expression profile, whereas results indicated that pCPC-HGF-mCherry cultures could be counter selecting high expresser cells. In addition, pCPC-IGF1-eGFP showed a higher cardiogenic response, evaluated in co-cultures with decellularized extracellular matrix, compared with native pCPC or pCPC-HGF-mCherry. In vivo intracoronary co-administration of pCPC-IGF1-eGFP and pCPC-HFG-mCherry (1:1; 40 × 10 6 /animal), one week after the induction of an MI model in swine, revealed no significant improvement in cardiac function.