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Cell therapy for cerebral hemorrhage: Five year follow-up report

  • Authors:
    • Zhitian Chang
    • Gengsheng Mao
    • Lizhong Sun
    • Qiang Ao
    • Yongquan Gu
    • Ying Liu
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  • Published online on: October 18, 2016     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2016.3811
  • Pages: 3535-3540
  • Copyright: © Chang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

The aim of the study was to examine treatment of cerebral hemorrhages with bone‑marrow or human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs or Hu‑MSCs) and conventional surgical approaches, and determine and compare the effectiveness, feasibility, safety and reproducibility of each method. A retrospective analysis was performed on a cohort of cell‑treated cerebral hemorrhage patients from October 1, 2007 to October 1, 2009. A total of 24 patients, all of whom received conventional surgical treatment, were classified as follows: i) The control group consisted of 8 patients who received only hematoma removal surgery, ii) the autologous group consisted of 7 patients who received additional autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell transplantation, and iii) the allograft group consisted of 9 patients who received additional umbilical cord mononuclear cell transplantation. After conventional hematoma removal surgery and X‑ray supervision within 24 h and at 7 days, neurological disability and function tests were completed 3, 6, 12, 36 and 60 months later. The T‑cell marker plasma levels were analyzed after 60 months. The results showed that, at approximately 3.5 months after graft the hematomas in all the groups were completely reabsorbed as observed on computed tomography scans. However, the functional outcomes in the cell‑transplanted groups were better than in the control group after 5 years. While the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, modified Rankin score and modified Barthel index scores were simliar in the cell‑transplanted groups, patients in the allograft group had better outcomes than those in the autologous graft group starting at 3 months and until the end of the follow‑up period. The serum levels of T‑cell markers CD4, CD56 and human leukocyte antigen‑DR in the allograft group showed no signs of immunogenic graft complications and there were no significant differences in T‑cell subtypes among the patient groups. The results of the present study suggest that, treatment of cerebral hemorrhage patients can be safely and effectively accomplished using Hu‑MSC grafting and larger clinical trials should be considered in the future.

Introduction

Cerebral hemorrhage remains a worldwide health burden, causing high morbidity, mortality, and costs to health care systems, and is the primary cause of serious long-term disabilities in the developed and developing countries (1). Recent advances in stem cell research have led to the development of cell-based therapies for tissue damage caused by injury or disease (2). This growing field of medicine brings the promise of stem cell therapies that may restore the original tissues. In this pursuit, advancements in neurogenesis through the use of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) may provide the fundamental components that are missing from classical single molecule-based pharmaceutical interventions to enhance functional recovery after a cerebral hemorrhagic episode.

MSCs are a heterogeneous population of stem cells that are able to differentiate into various cell types, including osteoblasts, chondrocytes, adipocytes and muscle cells (3). The use of human MSCs has shown enormous therapeutic potential in neurological regenerative medicine (47). MSCs can be isolated from various tissues, including bone marrow, adipose tissue, synovium, periosteum, skeletal muscles, and umbilical cord tissues (8). In previous studies, we demonstrated the immunologic compatibility and osteogenic properties of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells (Hu-MSCs)in tibia non-union in rats (9,10) and patients (11). The primary aim of the present study was to examine in cerebral hemorrhage both with bone marrow mononuclear cells/Hu-MSCs and with conventional surgical approaches, which enhanced regenerative support from transplanted cells to effectively treat acute and chronic disorders of the nervous system. The secondary objective was to determine the safety of cell therapy in patients with cerebral hemorrhage.

Materials and methods

Study population

A retrospective analysis was performed on a cohort of 24 patients treated for cerebral hemorrhage. The patients were admitted to the Department of Neurosurgery, Siping Hospital of China Medical University (Siping, China) from October 1, 2007 to October 1, 2009.

The present study was approved by the ethics committee of Siping Hospital of China Medical University. All the patients in the cohort were ≥18 years of age. Cerebral hemorrhage patients were treated within the first 6 h of the onset of the hemorrhagic episode. Patients with life-threatening conditions, limited follow-up, missing stratification information, or without standard indications for rehabilitation were excluded from the study. The criteria for exclusion were chosen to ensure that all the patients were treated according to the best medical practices. Written informed consent was obtained from the patients prior to any and all procedures.

For data analysis, 24 patients were classified into one of three groups, with all groups receiving conventional surgical treatment: group 1, the control group, had 8 patients who received hematoma removal surgery alone; group 2 had 7 patients who received additional autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell transplant; and group 3 had 9 patients who received an additional umbilical cord MSCs allograft instead. The general description of the patients is shown in Table I. Blood was taken from the internal jugular veins.

Table I.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Table I.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

No. of criterion type
Inclusion
  1. Men or women (women of non-child-bearing age only), aged 30–75 years
  2. Cerebral hemorrhage observed within 6 h of the onset of symptoms
  3. Radiological:
  Maximum diameter of the stroke region in any dimension ≤10 mm
  Damage not involving more than 50% of the ipsilateral subventricular zonea
  4. Moderate to severe persistent neurologic deficit (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale of 6–21 inclusive)
Exclusion
  1. Hematologic disorders or bone marrow suppression
  2. Severe medical illness defined as:
    Severe heart failure
    Severe febrile illness
    Hepatic or renal dysfunction
    Active cancer
    Any evidence of chronic co-morbid condition or unstable acute systemic illness which, in the investigator's opinion, could shorten survival or limit the ability to complete the study
  3. Lactating women or pregnant women as determined by positive urine hCG test
  4. Considered unwilling or unable to comply with the procedures and study visit schedule outlined in the protocol
  5. Unwilling to undergo bone marrow aspiration

a The degree of involvement of the ipsilateral subventricular zone was measured on the initial diffusion-weighted image at the two axial level. Severe heart failure, the upper thalamus and head of caudate nucleus. Severe febrile illness, the corona radiata (7-mm upper level).

Definition of cerebral hemorrhage

The diagnosis of cerebral hemorrhage was confirmed on radiographs at the discretion of the admitting doctor (12).

Bone marrow mononuclear cell isolation

Bone marrow mononuclear cells were isolated from 40 ml of bone marrow harvested from the posterior iliac crest of each patient undergoing an autologous transplant. The procedure for harvesting human MSCs followed the method described in our previous study (13). Briefly, the bone marrow samples were washed with Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium-low glucose (DMEM-LG; Invitrogen Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA) supplemented with 10% of an aliquot of the patient's own blood plasma. To isolate the mononuclear cells, the samples were subjected to a preformed Percoll™ (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA) density gradient (1.073 g/ml) centrifugation step. The total number of MSCs was ~1.8×108 cells for each patient.

Umbilical cord harvesting

Five human umbilical cord (UC), samples were collected after informed written consent was obtained from the mothers. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Siping Hospital of China Medical University and all the experimental animal procedures were in accordance with the national/international guidelines for ethical conduct in the care and use of animals. Regarding each sample, UC sections of 8–10 cm were internally washed with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) containing 300 U/ml penicillin and 300 g/ml streptomycin (Gibco, Grand Island, NY, USA) and immediately immersed in DMEM-LG (Gibco) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 300 U/ml penicillin, and 0.3 mg/ml streptomycin. The samples were processed within 12–15 h after collection.

Isolation and culture of adherent cells from the UC

The UCs were filled with 0.1% collagenase (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, USA) in PBS and incubated at 37°C for 20 min as previously described (9,10). Each UC was washed with proliferation medium and the detached cells were harvested after gentle massage of the UC. The cells were centrifuged at 300 × g for 10 min, resuspended in proliferation medium, and seeded in 75-cm2 flasks at a density of 5×107 cells/ml. After incubation for 24 h, non-adherent cells were removed and the culture medium was replaced every 3 days. Adherent cells were cultured until they reached 80–90% confluence.

Laboratory measurements

Patient's serum levels of T-cell subtypes were analysed using flow cytometry 5 years after the transplantation.

Flow cytometry

To analyze the cell surface expression of the typical protein markers, adherent cells were incubated with the following anti-human conjugated primary antibodies (BD Biosciences, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA): CD4-phycoerythrin (PE) (monoclonal, dilution: 0.2 µl/1×106 cells, catalog no.: 565999); CD8-fluorescein isothiocyanate (monoclonal, dilution: 0.2 µl/1×106 cells, catalog no.: 557696); CD56 (monoclonal, dilution: 0.4 µl/1×106 cells, catalog no.: 556647); and HLA-DR-R-PE (monoclonal, dilution: 0.8 µl/1×106 cells, catalog no.: 560943). Unconjugated markers were added to react with anti-mouse PE-conjugated secondary antibody (eBioscience, San Diego, CA, USA; catalog no.: 11-5921; dilution: 1/200). A total of 10,000 labeled cells were analyzed using a BD LSRFortessa™ Cell Analyzer (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA) and the data obtained were analyzed using BD FACSDiva software 6.0 (BD Biosciences).

Cell transplantation

The patients were treated with conventional hematoma removal surgery within 6 h after hemorrhage. However, in the case of the transplant patients, one end of a 10-cm silicone tube was inserted into the hematoma cavity, the other side was placed subcutaneously, and then sutured. After 2 weeks, and under anesthesia with 5 ml of 2% lidocaine, the scalp was cut and the extracranial end of the silicone tube was found. BMSCs or Hu-MSCs were grafted through the lumen of the tube. The catheter was then returned as before. A second injection of BMSCs or Hu-MSCs was instilled 1 week later, and this time the indwelling tube was pulled out carefully during the course of 10 min, and finally the scalp was sutured. The patients were sent to the hospital ward for recovery. Antibiotics were given to prevent infection.

Treatment protocol

The patients received a standard treatment consisting of: i) Anti-hypertensive medication such as sodium nitrate tome (Hongyuan Group, Quanzhou, Fujian, China); ii) neurotrophic drugs: N-α-acetylglycinamide (Pfizer Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China), and/or sodium monosialotetrahexosylganglioside injection (Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Jinan, China); iii) intracranial pressure control with 20% mannitol (Kelun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Chengdu, China); and iv) neurological rehabilitation sessions.

Radiological evaluation

Radiographs were obtained for the patients following admission to the hospital before and 2 days, 4 weeks after operation, and then 3, 6 and 7 days, and 12 months after transplantation. Three independent observers blinded to the assigned treatment assessed the radiographs of each patient for cerebral hemorrhage.

Outcomes

Primary clinical evaluations included assessments of the length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), readmission to the ICU, length of stay in the hospital, infection, neurological dysfunction [including National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), modified Rankin scale (mRS), modified Barthel index (mBI)], time of healing, pain at the iliac crest and infection. For analysis of the outcomes of the primary clinical evaluations, the categorical shift in mRS at 90 days after treatment was used. Scores from 0 to 5 were used for the mRS, by merging the last scale of 6 (death) with that of 5 (severe disability). Clinical outcomes were followed-up by phone interview at 4 weeks, and in person at 3, 6, 12, 36 and 60 months.

The secondary evaluations involved checking the percentage of CD4, CD8, CD56 and HLA-DR in peripheral blood 3 years after the transplantation to determine whether the patients had suffered any immune rejections. Secondary and exploratory evaluation outcomes are shown in Table II.

Table II.

Hematoma reabsorption time evaluated by computed tomography scan.

Table II.

Hematoma reabsorption time evaluated by computed tomography scan.

CharacteristicsControl groupAuto-graft groupAllograft group
Hematoma reabsorbed partly, months
  Mean1.91.31.3
  Range1.3–2.70.9–2.10.9–2.2
Hematoma reabsorbed completely, months
  Mean4.53.23.3
  Range3.5–6.12.8–4.32.8–4.1
Data collection

Data were collected through person-to-person interactions after training all the interviewers to use standardized scripts. Each interview started with the respondent first reading a short non-technical description of the limbs' function scale explaining the possible limb health states. Investigators blinded to treatment allocations measured the neurological disability of each case using the NIHSS and functional scores for mRS and mBI.

Statistical analysis

Data obtained were presented as means ± standard deviation values and compared between groups using one-way ANOVA. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

General

The patients were older in the Hu-MSC treatment group (Table I). The patients were followed-up for 5 years through the recheck outpatient department and with radiological examinations to confirm the treatment effectiveness.

Hematoma reabsorption analysis

As shown in Fig. 1, the initial hematoma volume was similar in all the cases. Two days after hematoma removal surgery, a small amount of hematoma remained in the cavity. At 2 weeks after Hu-MSCs (Fig. 1F) or BMSCs (Fig. 1I) transplantation, the bleeding site was evident as low-density small narrow strips surrounded by edematous brain tissue, while the bleeding site in the control group consisted of a larger squared region.

Neurological disability and function evaluation

As shown in Table III, the mean time for hematoma reabsorption was similar in all the groups. The computed tomography (CT) scans for brain tissue healing showed better outcomes in the two cell transplanted groups than in the control group (Fig. 1A-C). Approximately 3.5 months after the graft, CT scans showed the hematoma was completely reabsorbed. NIHSS, mRS and mBI scores were similar in the cell transplantation groups (Table IV). Nevertheless, the outcomes in the cell-transplanted groups were better than those in the control group at 5 years. Of note, the patients who underwent Hu-MSC allograft had better outcomes than those who underwent autologous BMSC transplantation starting at 3 months and during the rest of the follow-up period, as evaluated by the NIHSS score (Table IV). After 6 months the mRS and mBI score tendencies in each group did not vary significantly.

Table III.

Baseline data in patients.

Table III.

Baseline data in patients.

CharacteristicsControl groupAuto-graft groupAllograft group
Gender, no.
  Male556
  Female323
Age, years
  Mean51.3242.4352.36
  Range40–5538–4444–58
BMI, m/kg2
  Mean25.7324.6225.13
  Range23.6–26.222.7–25.622.9–27.3
Smoking status, package-year
  Mean8.419.1512.33
  Range  0–23  0–22  0–23
Location of hemorrhage, no.
  Basal ganglia545
  Subcortical334
Hypertension, years
  Mean14.8311.4716.16
  Range11–23  6–22  9–23
  Hypertension, no.879
Diabetes mellitus, years
  Mean3.753.665.44
  Range   6–24   9–1811–21
Diabetes mellitus, no.233
Infection, no.434
Total cholesterol, mg/dl5.71±0.435.69±0.555.75±0.64
Triglycerides, mg/dl2.32±0.282.46±0.692.49±0.71

[i] BMI, body mass index.

Table IV.

Outcome data of total population.

Table IV.

Outcome data of total population.

VariablesControl groupAuto-graft groupAllograft group
Readmission rate to ICUa (%)1/80/70/9
ICU LOS (days)   4.3±0.84.6±0.34.2±0.9
Hospital LOS (days)29.8±3.428.6±2.829.4±2.1
NIHSS score
  Values during 24 h treatment, % readings19.1±0.320.4±0.721.1±0.6
  NIHSS
  Values before left ICU treatment, % readings16.5±1.515.9±1.116.3±0.7
  NIHSS
  Values during 4 weeks treatment, % readings14.9±0.813.3±0.713.6±0.2
  NIHSS
  Values during 3 months treatment, % readings14.6±0.9 12.9±0.3b 10.5±0.6b,c
  NIHSS
  Values during 6 months treatment, % readings13.9±0.4 10.6±0.6b 9.6±0.5b,c
  NIHSS
  Values during 12 months treatment, % readings13.6±0.6 9.3±0.4b 8.9±0.8b,c
  NIHSS
  Values during 24 months treatment, % readings13.1±0.3 9.6±0.3b 8.1±0.3b,c
  NIHSS
  Values during 36 months treatment, % readings13.3±0.6 9.1±0.5b 7.8±0.6b,c
  NIHSS
  Values during 60 months treatment, % readings mRS score13.3±0.4 9.3±0.3b 7.6±0.5b,c

a Readmission rate defined as at least one readmission per patient.

b P<0.05, compared with control.

c P<0.05, compared to auto-graft group. ICU, intensive care unit; LOS, length of stay (days); NIHSS, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.

Donor site complications

In total, 3 patients complained of moderate pain at the iliac crest, and therefore the donor site-related morbidity rate was 42.9%. However, none of the patients suffered permanent pain at the iliac crest, harvesting-related swelling, redness, drainage, infection or neurological deficits.

Intensity of pain and level of treatment-dissatisfaction

During follow-up, patients of all the groups stated to have approximately equal intensity of index operation-related pain. Additionally, 2 patients in the autologous-transplant group (28.5%) compared to all the patients of the allograft treatment group (100%) were satisfied or only minimally dissatisfied with the hematoma removal treatment. Thus, patients of the allograft group were significantly less dissatisfied with the treatment compared to those of the autologous group (data not shown).

Serum levels of T-cell subtypes

The serum levels of CD4, CD56 and HLA-DR in the allograft group were negative, while the serum levels of CD8 were 4.6% positive. There were no evident differences in T-cell subtypes among the 3 groups (data not shown).

Discussion

In the current study, we reported data of a retrospective comparative study using autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells, Hu-MSCs or surgery alone to treat cerebral hemorrhage. All the patients agreed to the offered treatment options. Success of the treatment was observed in 100% of the Hu-MSCs grafted and the autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells grafted groups. This is the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that the safety of an Hu-MSCs allograft in vivo in humans has been assessed over a period of 5 years.

Different tissue-derived adult stem cells can be employed as donor cells for transplantation to treat neurogenetic disorders. An important factor in considering stem cell grafting for therapy is the possibility of an immunogenic complication such as a host graft rejection. Taking this into consideration, levels of CD8, CD56 and HLA-DR, which are known immunological rejection markers, were measured in all the graft patients. There were no elevations in the levels of CD8, CD56 or HLA-DR in either group, while the level of CD4+ T-cells was similar in the two groups after 5 years of the grafting procedure. Some investigators have reported elevated endogenous neurogenesis via a CD4+ T-cell-dependent mechanism (14). Given these results and the fact that no adjunctive immunosuppressants were administered, the data suggest no immunological rejection or disorder in the Hu-MSCs graft group. A limitation of the present study is that the level of HLA-G, which is reported as a contributing factor to inducing stronger immunosuppression (15) and a prognostic indicator of graft tolerance (16,17) was not observed in the allograft group when compared to the autograft group.

MSCs can be harvested from a variety of mesenchymal tissues, and have different characteristics in an immune response depending on their origin. Placenta-derived MSCs show less inhibition to CD4+ T-cell stimulation than bone marrow-derived stem cells (18). The current research for favorable outcomes suggests an optimal intra-brain administration of cells 2 weeks post-hemorrhage, and a therapeutic dose of 1 million cells. This period of opportunity poses a challenge in generating enough stem cells from freshly harvested autologous tissue sources.

An aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness and tolerance of Hu-MSCs compared to the autologous bone-marrow-mononuclear-cell-grafting in the treatment of cerebral hemorrhage. Taking all results into account, the present findings show that the Hu-MSCs group performed better overall than the control or even the autologous graft group, demonstrating the effectiveness of the Hu-MSC graft treatment for cerebral hemorrhage. Of note, 3 patients in the autologous group suffered moderate donor site complications at the iliac crest region. By contrast, patients treated with Hu-MSCs claimed minimal dissatisfaction concerning the surgery during follow-up.

In summary, the present study has shown that patients treated with Hu-MSCs had good functional recovery, no complications, reduced treatment dissatisfaction, and a lack of donor site complications at the iliac crest region. Therefore we recommend that the use of Hu-MSCs offered to suitable patients as a valuable alternative for autologous grafting. Harvesting Hu-MSCs is easy, and is perceived as ethically correct. In conclusion, our findings suggest that Hu-MSCs grafting is an effective and safe method for the treatment of cerebral hemorrhage and should be seriously considered in future studies.

Acknowledgements

The present study was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of (863 Program), nos. 2011AA020101 and 2012A020905.

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