Melatonin treatment improves adipose‐derived mesenchymal stem cell therapy for acute lung ischemia–reperfusion injury
- 8 October 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Pineal Research
- Vol. 54 (2), 207-221
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jpi.12020
Abstract
This study investigated whether melatonin‐treated adipose‐derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADMSC) offered superior protection against acute lung ischemia–reperfusion (IR) injury. Adult male Sprague‐Dawley rats (n = 30) were randomized equally into five groups: sham controls, lung IR–saline, lung IR–melatonin, lung IR–melatonin–normal ADMSC, and lung IR–melatonin–apoptotic ADMSC. Arterial oxygen saturation was lowest in lung IR–saline; lower in lung IR–melatonin than sham controls, lung IR–melatonin–normal ADMSC, and lung IR–melatonin–apoptotic ADMSC; lower in lung IR–melatonin–normal ADMSC than sham controls and lung IR–melatonin–apoptotic ADMSC; lower in lung IR–melatonin–apoptotic ADMSC than sham controls (P < 0.0001 in each case). Right ventricular systolic blood pressure (RVSBP) showed a reversed pattern among all groups (all P < 0.0001). Changes in histological scoring of lung parenchymal damage and CD68+ cells showed a similar pattern compared with RVSBP in all groups (all P < 0.001). Changes in inflammatory protein expressions such as VCAM‐1, ICAM‐1, oxidative stress, TNF‐α, NF‐κB, PDGF, and angiotensin II receptor, and changes in apoptotic protein expressions of cleaved caspase 3 and PARP, and mitochondrial Bax, displayed identical patterns compared with RVSBP in all groups (all P < 0.001). Numbers of antioxidant (GR+, GPx+, NQO‐1+) and endothelial cell biomarkers (CD31+ and vWF+) were lower in sham controls, lung IR–saline, and lung IR–melatonin than lung IR–melatonin–normal ADMSC and lung IR–melatonin–apoptotic ADMSC, and lower in lung IR–melatonin–normal ADMSC than lung IR–melatonin–apoptotic ADMSC (P < 0.001 in each case). In conclusion, when the animals were treated with melatonin, the apoptotic ADMSC were superior to normal ADMSC for protection of lung from acute IR injury.This publication has 40 references indexed in Scilit:
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