Assessment of the Tissue Distribution of Transplanted Human Endothelial Progenitor Cells by Radioactive Labeling
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- 29 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 107 (16) , 2134-2139
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.0000062649.63838.c9
Abstract
Background— Transplantation of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) improves vascularization and left ventricular function after experimental myocardial ischemia. However, tissue distribution of transplanted EPCs has not yet been monitored in living animals. Therefore, we tested whether radioactive labeling allows us to detect injected EPCs. Methods and Results— Human EPCs were isolated from peripheral blood, characterized by expression of endothelial marker proteins, and radioactively labeled with [111In]indium oxine. EPCs (106) were injected in athymic nude rats 24 hours after myocardial infarction (n=8) or sham operation (n=8). Scintigraphic images were acquired after 1, 24, 48, and 96 hours after EPC injection. Animals were then killed, and specific radioactivity was measured in different tissues. At 24 to 96 hours after intravenous injection of EPCs, ≈70% of the radioactivity was localized in the spleen and liver, with only ≈1% of the radioactivity identified in the heart of sham-operated animals. Aft...Keywords
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