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Patient-derived endothelial progenitor cells improve vascular graft patency in a rodent model.
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PMID:  21945828     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Late outgrowth endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) derived from the peripheral blood of patients with significant coronary artery disease were sodded into the lumens of small diameter expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) vascular grafts. Grafts (1mm inner diameter) were denucleated and sodded either with native EPCs or with EPCs transfected with an adenoviral vector containing the gene for human thrombomodulin (EPC+AdTM). EPC+AdTM was shown to increase the in vitro rate of graft activated protein C (APC) production 4-fold over grafts sodded with untransfected EPCs (p<0.05). Unsodded control and EPC-sodded and EPC+AdTM-sodded grafts were implanted bilaterally into the femoral arteries of athymic rats for 7 or 28days. Unsodded control grafts, both with and without denucleation treatment, each exhibited 7day patency rates of 25%. Unsodded grafts showed extensive thrombosis and were not tested for patency over 28days. In contrast, grafts sodded with untransfected EPCs or EPC+AdTM both had 7day patency rates of 88-89% and 28day patency rates of 75-88%. Intimal hyperplasia was observed near both the proximal and distal anastomoses in all sodded graft conditions but did not appear to be the primary occlusive failure event. This in vivo study suggests autologous EPCs derived from the peripheral blood of patients with coronary artery disease may improve the performance of synthetic vascular grafts, although no differences were observed between untransfected EPCs and TM transfected EPCs.
Authors:
J D Stroncek; L C Ren; B Klitzman; W M Reichert
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Publication Detail:
Type:  -     Date:  2011-9-6
Journal Detail:
Title:  Acta biomaterialia     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1878-7568     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Sep 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-9-27     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101233144     Medline TA:  Acta Biomater     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
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