Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2013, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (36): 6521-6526.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2013.36.022

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Impact of mesenchymal stem cells on the proliferation, invasion and biological behaviors of hepatocellular carcinoma cells

Zheng Peng-xiang, Zhou Huan, Tan Jian-ming   

  1. Department of Urinary Surgery, Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Area Command of PLA, Fuzhou General Clinical Medical College of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou  350025, Fujian Province, China
  • Received:2013-01-13 Revised:2013-03-02 Online:2013-09-03 Published:2013-09-03
  • Contact: Tan Jian-ming, M.D., Professor, Chief physician, Doctoral supervisor, Department of Urinary Surgery, Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Area Command of PLA, Fuzhou General Clinical Medical College of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350025, Fujian Province, China tanjm156@yahoo.com.cn
  • About author:Zheng Peng-xiang★, Studying for master’s degree, Department of Urinary Surgery, Fuzhou General Hospital of Nanjing Military Area Command of PLA, Fuzhou General Clinical Medical College of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350025, Fujian Province, China zpx365@163.com

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Liver cancer pathogenesis and intervention have attracted increasing attentions. Mesenchymal stem cells become a popular tool for cell cancer research, because of their low immunogenicity and tumor tropism. At present, mesenchymal stem cells have been applied to the study of liver cancer.
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the advances of mesenchymal stem cells used in liver cancer in basic and clinical research.
METHODS: An online retrieval of CNKI and Pubmed database was performed by the first author for the articles about mesenchymal stem cells and effect of modified mesenchymal stem cells on hepatoma carcinoma cells published from January 2004 to January 2013. The key words were “mesenchymal stem cell, liver cancer, tumor” in Chinese and English. Repetitive research was excluded, and 47 studies met the inclusion criteria.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Stem cells are seldom reported in liver cancer, and the limited present study show that mesenchymal stem cells may have a certain influence on the hepatoma carcinoma cell proliferation, invasion and biological behavior. However, due to the differences of cell lines used by the various laboratories, experimental conditions, animal models, as well as infusion means of stem cells, experimental results are also inconsistent. Scholars have conducted a series of studies on the mechanism of the Wnt pathway and tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand pathway. Tropism of mesenchymal stem cells to tumor cells, including liver cancer is widely recognized, so scholars imported therapeutic genes and drugs into mesenchymal stem cells to interfere with the development of liver cancer, and have achieved some progress. This evidence provides new avenues for cell therapy for liver cancer. Less safety studies in vivo and clinical trials of mesenchymal stem cells are available, therefore security risks deserve further research.

Key words: stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells, liver neoplasms, Wnt proteins, tumor necrosis factors

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