Artículo
Long-term immunosuppression for CNS mouse xenotransplantation: Effects on nigrostriatal neurodegeneration and neuroprotective carotid body cell therapy
Autor/es | Villadiego Luque, Francisco Javier
Romo-Madero, Sonia García-Swinburn, Roberto Suárez-Luna, Nela Bermejo-Navas, Alfonso Echevarría Irusta, Miriam Toledo Aral, Juan José |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica |
Fecha de publicación | 2018 |
Fecha de depósito | 2024-02-16 |
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Resumen | Abstract
Background: The use of long-term immunosuppressive treatments on neural trans plantation has been controversial during the last decades. Although nowadays there
is a consensus about the necessity of maintaining ... Abstract Background: The use of long-term immunosuppressive treatments on neural trans plantation has been controversial during the last decades. Although nowadays there is a consensus about the necessity of maintaining a permanent state of immunosup pression to preserve the survival of cerebral grafts, little is known about the effects that chronic immunosuppression produces both on the neurodegenerative process and on transplants function. Methods: Here, we establish a new immunosuppressive protocol, based on the dis continuous administration of CsA (15 mg/kg; s.c.) and prednisone (20 mg/kg; s.c.), to produce long-term immunosuppression in mice. Using this treatment, we analyse the effects that long-term immunosuppression induces in a chronic 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1, 2,3,6,-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) model of parkinsonism and on the neuroprotective and neurorestorative anti-parkinsonian actions exerted by rat carotid body (CB) xenografts. Results: This protocol preserves the survival of rat CB xenotransplants maintaining the general wellness of the grafted mice. Although permanent immunosuppression does not prevent the MPTP-induced cell death of nigral neurons and the consequent degeneration of dopaminergic striatal innervation, allowing for its use as Parkinson’s disease (PD) model, it reduces the microglial activation and slightly declines the stri atal damage. Moreover, we reported that chronic administration of immunosuppres sant drugs does not alter the neuroprotective and restorative anti-parkinsonian actions of rat CB xenografts into parkinsonian mice. Conclusions: This new immunosuppressive protocol provides a new murine model to assay the long-term effects of cerebral xenografts and offer a pharmacological alternative to the commonly used genetic immunodeficient mice, allowing the use of genetically modified mice as hosts. In addition, it will permit the experimental analysis of the effects produced by human CB xenografts in the chronic PD murine model, with the final aim of using CB allografts as an option of cell therapy in PD patients. |
Cita | Villadiego Luque, F.J., Romo-Madero, S., García-Swinburn, R., Suárez-Luna, N., Bermejo-Navas, A., Echevarría Irusta, M. y Toledo Aral, J.J. (2018). Long-term immunosuppression for CNS mouse xenotransplantation: Effects on nigrostriatal neurodegeneration and neuroprotective carotid body cell therapy. Xenotransplantation, 25 (6), e12410. https://doi.org/10.1111/xen.12410. |
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