1. Reduced xenograft rejection in rat striatum after pretransplant photodynamic therapy of murine neural xenografts
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Hao Shen, Philippe Maria Clotaire Margaron, Stephen Yip, Julia G. Levy, Modestus Obochi, and Christopher R. Honey
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Graft Rejection ,Male ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Porphyrins ,Ratón ,Dopamine ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Transplantation, Heterologous ,Cell ,Photodynamic therapy ,Pharmacology ,Mice ,Cyclosporin a ,Animals ,Medicine ,Brain Tissue Transplantation ,Photosensitizer ,Rats, Wistar ,Analysis of Variance ,Photosensitizing Agents ,business.industry ,Graft Survival ,Verteporfin ,Parkinson Disease ,Corpus Striatum ,Rats ,Transplantation ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Photochemotherapy ,Cyclosporine ,Immunohistochemistry ,business ,Immunosuppressive Agents ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Object. The goal of this study was to develop a method of reducing neural xenograft rejection by pretreating the graft with photodynamic therapy (PDT).Methods. Xenograft cell suspensions were prepared from fetal mouse mesencephalon, after which they were incubated for 30 minutes with various concentrations of a photosensitizer, verteporfin for injection, and light exposure. The xenograft cell suspensions were injected into the dopamine-depleted striata of 40 hemiparkinsonian rats assigned to different treatment groups. Four weeks after transplantation, xenograft function (determined by methamphetamine-induced rotation) and survival (determined by immunohistochemical staining for murine neurons) were compared. Group 1 animals (xenografts pretreated with 25 ng/ml verteporfin) and Group 3 animals (no verteporfin pretreatment, but daily administration of cyclosporin A) had significantly better xenograft survival and function compared with control animals (no pretreatment with verteporfin). Group 2 animals (xenografts pretreated with 250 ng/ml verteporfin) had no significant improvement.Conclusions. This work demonstrates improved neural xenograft survival and function when using pretransplant PDT of the graft in a rodent model. The potential benefits of this new therapy are its convenience (one pretransplant treatment) and its compatibility with host immunosuppression.
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- 2000