Background: Clinical cardiac cell therapy using autologous somatic stem cells is restricted by age and disease-associated impairment of stem cell function. Juvenile cells possibly represent a more potent alternative, but the impact of patient-related variables on such cell products is unknown. We therefore evaluated the behavior of neonatal cord blood mesenchymal stem cells (CB-MSC) in the presence of serum from patients with advanced heart failure (HF).Methods: Human serum was obtained from patients with severe HF (n = 21) and from healthy volunteers (n = 12). To confirm the systemic quality of HF in the sera, TNF-α and IL-6 were quantified. CB-MSC from healthy neonates were cultivated for up to 14 days in medium supplemented with 10% protein-normalized human HF or control serum or fetal calf serum (FCS).Results: All HF sera contained increased cytokine concentrations (IL-6, TNF-α). When exposed to HF serum, CB-MSC maintained basic MSC properties as confirmed by immunophenotyping and differentiation assays, but clonogenic cells were reduced in number and gave rise to substantially smaller colonies in the CFU-F assay. Cell cycle analysis pointed towards G1 arrest. CB-MSC metabolic activity and proliferation were significantly impaired for up to 3 days as measured by MTS turnover, BrdU incorporation and DAPI + nuclei counting. On day 5, however, CB-MSC growth kinetics approached control serum levels, though protein expression of cell cycle inhibitors (p21, p27), and apoptosis marker Caspase 3 remained elevated. Signal transduction included the stress and cytokine-induced JNK and ERK1/2 MAP kinase pathways.Conclusions: Heart failure temporarily inhibits clonality and proliferation of " healthy" juvenile MSC in vitro. Further studies should address the in vivo and clinical relevance of this finding. © 2013 Klose et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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K., K., R., R., A., B., A., K., A., O., K.-S., K., … C., S. (2013). Impact of heart failure on the behavior of human neonatal stem cells in vitro. Journal of Translational Medicine, 11(1), 236. Retrieved from http://www.embase.com/search/results?subaction=viewrecord&from=export&id=L52796886 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/11/1/236 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5876-11-236
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