Dina Sabry

Citation:

Abdelgwad, M., M. Ewaiss, D. Sabry, W. A. Khalifa, Z. M. Altaib, and M. alhelf, "Comparative study on effect of mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells on treatment of experimental CCL4-induced liver fibrosis.", Archives of physiology and biochemistry, vol. 128, issue 4, pp. 1071-1080, 2022.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: We speculated impacts of BM-MSCs and UC-EPCs on reversal of hepatic injury induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4). Fifty adult rats were divided into five groups: control group, CCl4A group, CCl4B group, CCl4/BM-MSCs group and CCl4/UC-EPCs group. Blood samples were driven to measure concentration of albumin and ALT. Quantitative expression of HGF, TGF-β, MMP-2, and VEGF were assessed by PCR. Histological and immunohistochemistry examination of the liver tissue were performed.

RESULTS: There was elevating albumin ( < .05) and reducing ALT ( < .05) concentrations in groups treated with BM-MSCs and UC-EPCs compared to untreated CCL4A&B groups. UC-EPCs treated group have significantly higher MMP-2 and VEGF ( < .01) genes expression than BM-MSCs treated group. Furthermore, UC-EPCs were more valuable than BMMSCs in increasing gene expression of HGF ( < .05) and immunohistochemistry of α-SMA and Ki-67 ( < .01). BM-MSCs have significantly lower TGF-β ( < .00) compared to UC-EPCs.

CONCLUSION: This study highlighted on liver regeneration role of both UC-EPCs and BM-MSCs in liver fibrosis.