Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2016, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (14): 2015-2020.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2016.14.005

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Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell transplantation for repair of mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis: role and mechanism

Liao Dan1, Zhang Lin1, Dai Xiao-yu1, Wang Jia-li1, Du Xiao-jiong2   

  1. 1Department of Nephrology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang 621000, Sichuan Province, China; 2Department of Vascular Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, China
  • Received:2016-03-01 Online:2016-04-01 Published:2016-04-01
  • About author:Liao Dan, Master, Attending physician, Department of Nephrology, Mianyang Central Hospital, Mianyang 621000, Sichuan Province, China
  • Supported by:

     the Scientific Research Project of Sichuan Provincial Health Department, No. 120305

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells are likely to repair renal injury by differentiating into renal parenchymal cells.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the effect and mechanism of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in the renal repair after mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis.
METHODS: Thirty Sprague-Dawley rats were randomized into normal group, model group and treatment group (n=10 per group). Model group and treatment group were treated with tail vein injection of mouse anti-rat monoclonal antibody Thy1.1 to prepare mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis models. One week after modeling, rats in the treatment group were given 2×106 bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells via the tail vein, and rats in the other two groups were given the same volume of normal saline. Two weeks after transplantation, urinary protein, urea nitrogen, creatinine levels were detected; hematoxylin-eosin staining was used for observing pathological changes of the renal tissue under microscope; and the expression of transforming growth factor beta 1 was detected by immunohistochemistry method.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The levels of urinary protein, urea nitrogen and creatinine as well as the expression of transforming growth factor beta 1 in the renal tissue arranged in descending order were listed as follows: model group > treatment group > control group, and there were significant differences among three groups (P < 0.05). In the model group, diffuse glomerular hyperplasia was observed with the presence of increased extracellular matrix, partial glomerular sclerosis, and interstitial infiltration of inflammatory cells; in the treatment group, glomerular hyperplasia, mesangial proliferation and inflammatory cell infiltration were all mitigated compared with the model group. Therefore, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell transplantation may contribute to renal repair after mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, by inhibiting overexpression of transforming growth factor beta 1 in the kidney.
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Key words:  Glomerulonephritis, Bone Marrow, Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation, Transforming Growth Factor beta1, Tissue Engineering