Exogenous Nkx2.5‑ or GATA‑4‑transfected rabbit bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells and myocardial cell co‑culture on the treatment of myocardial infarction in rabbits

Li,Pu; Zhang,Lei

doi:10.3892/mmr.2015.3775

Exogenous Nkx2.5‑ or GATA‑4‑transfected rabbit bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells and myocardial cell co‑culture on the treatment of myocardial infarction in rabbits

Authors:
- Pu Li
- Lei Zhang
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Affiliations: Department of Cardiac Surgery, The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Hebei, Shijiazhuang 050017, P.R. China, Department of Histology and Embryology, Hebei Medical University, Hebei, Shijiazhuang 050017, P.R. China
Published online on: May 12, 2015 https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2015.3775
Pages: 2607-2621
Copyright: © Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License [CC BY_NC 3.0].

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Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of Nkx2.5 or GATA‑4 transfection with myocardial extracellular environment co‑culture on the transformation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) into differentiated cardiomyocytes. Nkx2.5 or GATA‑4 were transfected into myocardial extracellular environment co‑cultured BMSCs, and then injected into the periphery of infarcted myocardium of a myocardial infarction rabbit model. The effects of these gene transfections and culture on the infarcted myocardium were observed and the results may provide an experimental basis for the efficient myocardial cell differentiation of BMSCs. The present study also suggested that these cells may provide a source and clinical basis for myocardial injury repair via stem cell transplantation. The present study examined whether Nkx2.5 or GATA‑4 exogenous gene transfection with myocardial cell extracellular environment co‑culture were able to induce the differentiation of BMSCs into cardiac cells. In addition, the effect of these transfected BMSCs on the repair of the myocardium following myocardial infarction was determined using New Zealand rabbit models. The results demonstrated that myocardial cell differentiation was significantly less effective following exogenous gene transfection of Nkx2.5 or GATA‑4 alone compared with that of transfection in combination with extracellular environment co‑culture. In addition, the results of the present study showed that exogenous gene transfection of Nkx2.5 or GATA‑4 into myocardial cell extracellular environment co‑cultured BMSCs was able to significantly enhance the ability to repair, mitigating the death of myocardial cells and activation of the myocardium in rabbits with myocardial infarction compared with those of the rabbits transplanted with untreated BMSCs. In conclusion, the exogenous Nkx2.5 and GATA‑4 gene transfection into myocardial extracellular environment co‑cultured BMSCs induced increased differentiation into myocardial cells compared with that of gene transfection alone. Furthermore, significantly enhanced reparative effects were observed in the myocardium of rabbits following treatment with Nkx2.5‑ or GATA‑4‑transfected myocardial cell extracellular environment co‑cultured BMSCs compared with those treated with untreated BMSCs.

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