As células-tronco hematopoéticas (CTHs) e estromais mesenquimais multipotentes (CTMs) isoladas da medula óssea vêm sendo utilizadas como fonte autóloga no tratamento de doenças autoimunes, como a esclerose múltipla (EM). As CTHs dão origem a todas as células dos sistemas hematopoético e imunológico e as CTMs possuem propriedades imunomoduladoras pela liberação de fatores solúveis e interação célula-célula. Existem trabalhos que sugerem que as doenças autoimunes sejam provenientes de defeitos intrínsecos nas células-tronco precursoras da medula óssea. Com o intuito de avaliar se as CTHs e CTMs de pacientes com EM possuem alterações intrínsecas, o objetivo geral deste trabalho foi avaliar o perfil de expressão gênica diferencial por microarrays de CTHs e CTMs de pacientes com EM, além de avaliar o perfil de expressão gênica de CTMs após o transplante autólogo de CTHs e a capacidade imunomoduladora in vitro das CTMs de pacientes. As CTHs e CTMs foram isoladas da medula óssea de pacientes com EM e doadores saudáveis, após consentimento informado. As CTHs foram isoladas por colunas imunomagnéticas e as CTMs foram isoladas por gradiente de densidade e submetidas à caracterização morfológica, imunofenotípica e capacidade de diferenciação em adipócitos e osteócitos. O RNA das CTHs e CTMs foi extraído e purificado e o perfil de expressão gênica foi avaliado por microarrays, utilizando hibridações em lâminas contendo 44.000 sondas. A capacidade imunomoduladora das CTMs de pacientes e controles foi avaliada por ensaios de cocultivo com linfócitos alogênicos e as citocinas foram quantificadas no sobrenadante por CBA flex e ELISA. Este estudo foi aprovado pelo comitê de ética do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto. Os resultados mostraram que as CTHs de pacientes possuem perfis de expressão gênica diferentes dos controles, com 2.722 genes diferencialmente expressos, envolvidos em vias de sinalização importantes para manutenção/proliferação das CTHs e diferenciação em linhagens específicas durante a hematopoese. Dentre essas sinalizações estão incluídas as vias da apoptose, Wnt, Notch, mTOR, PI3K/Akt e Ca/NFAT, sugerindo que as CTHs de pacientes com EM possuam alterações intrínsecas que podem estar relacionadas com a patogenia da doença autoimune. As CTMs isoladas de pacientes com EM exibiram aparência senescente e reduzida expressão de marcadores imunofenotípicos. Com relação à expressão gênica, as CTMs de pacientes possuem perfil diferente das CTMs controle, sendo detectados 618 genes diferencialmente expressos, incluindo genes relacionados à sinalização FGF, HGF, sinalização de moléculas de adesão e moléculas envolvidas nos processos de imunorregulação, como IL10, IL6, TGFB1, IFNGR1, IFNGR2 e HGF. O perfil de expressão gênica das CTMs de pacientes pós-transplante assemelhou-se ao perfil das CTMs pré-transplante. Ensaios de cocultivo de CTMs com linfócitos alogênicos mostraram que as CTMs de pacientes possuem capacidade antiproliferativa reduzida em relação às CTMs controle, e ainda, secreção reduzida de TGF- e IL-10 no sobrenadante das coculturas. Esses dados sugerem que as CTMs isoladas de pacientes com EM possuam alterações fenotípicas, transcricionais e funcionais. Embasados nesses achados, concluímos que as CTHs e as CTMs de pacientes com EM possuem alterações intrínsecas que podem estar relacionadas com a patogenia da doença. Uma vez que as CTMs sejam células com grande potencial terapêutico para controle da EM em pacientes refratários aos tratamentos convencionais, as alterações encontradas sugerem que CTMs de doadores saudáveis sejam mais adequadas em aplicações clínicas. / Bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) have been used as an autologous source to treat autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS). HSC give rise to all hematopoietic and immune system cells, and MSCs exhibit immunomodulatory properties by releasing soluble factors and by cell-cell interactions. Evidence indicates that bone marrow stem cells obtained from patients with autoimmune diseases may present intrinsic defects. To assess whether or not HSC and MSC of MS patients have intrinsic defects, the main objective of this study was to evaluate the differential gene expression profiles of HSC and MSC from MS patients before and after autologous HSC transplantation, and additionally, to evaluate the in vitro immunomodulatory ability of patient MSCs. Bone marrow HSC and MSCs were isolated from MS patients and healthy donors. HSCs were isolated by immunomagnetic columns and MSCs were isolated by gradient density and cultured until the third passage. MSCs were characterized according to morphology, immunophenotypic markers and cell differentiation into adipocytes and osteocytes. HSC and MSCs mRNAs were extracted, purified, and the gene expression profile was evaluated by microarray hybridizations, using a platform containing 44.000 probes. The immunomodulatory activity of patient and control MSCs was assessed by coculture assays with allogeneic lymphocytes. Cytokines were quantified in coculture supernatants by ELISA and CBA flex. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of the School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto. The results showed that the patient HSCs exhibited a distinctive gene expression profile when compared to healthy HSCs, yielding 2.722 differentially expressed genes, involved in essential HSC signaling pathways for maintenance, proliferation and differentiation into specific lineages during hematopoiesis. Among these signaling pathways were included, apoptosis, Wnt, Notch, mTOR, PI3K/Akt and Ca/NFAT, suggesting that patient HSCs have significant intrinsic transcriptional alterations that may be associated with MS pathogenesis. Regarding MSCs isolated from MS patients, they exhibited senescence appearance, decreased expression of immunophenotypic markers, and also exhibited a distinctive gene expression profile in relation to healthy MSCs, yielding 618 genes differentially expressed genes, included in FGF and HGF signaling pathways, adhesion molecules, and genes involved in immunoregulation processes, such as IL-10, IL-6, TGFB1, IFNGR1, IFNGR2 and HGF. Coculture assays of control or patient MSCs with allogeneic lymphocytes showed that patient cells exhibited reduced antiproliferative activity as compared with controls, and also exhibited reduced secretion of TGF- and IL-10 cytokines in coculture supernatants. These data suggest that MSCs isolated from MS patients have phenotypic, functional and transcriptional defects, highlighting genes related to MSC maintenance, adhesion and immunomodulatory effects. According to these results, we concluded that patient HSCs and MSCs have intrinsic defects that may be associated with the disease per se. Considering that MSCs exhibit great therapeutic potential to control MS patients refractory to conventional treatment, the major MSCs alterations observed in this study indicate that healthy MSCs may be more suitable for MS cell therapy.

Introdução: Em câncer de mama, existem evidências de que o microambiente pode influenciar o desenvolvimento do tumor no sítio primário, bem como em metástases regionais e a distância. Neste contexto, fibroblastos são importantes células estromais que podem influenciar a proliferação e a migração de células do câncer e podem prover um nicho apropriado para o desenvolvimento tumoral. Objetivos:O principal objetivo deste trabalho é comparar células estromais obtidas do tumor primário (PT), metástase linfonodal (N+) e medula óssea (BM) de pacientes com câncer de mama, através do perfil de expressão gênica. Pacientes e Métodos: Foi analisada a expressão gênica de fibroblastos (cultura primária) de 11 pacientes com câncer de mama. O perfil de expressão foi determinado em PT (n=4), N+(n=3) e BM (n=4) através de uma plataforma de cDNA microarray customizada (contendo 4.800 sequencias imobilizadas, representando cerca de 4600 genes), e os genes diferencialmente expressos foram identificados pelo teste SAM multiclasse, seguido pelo teste SAM de duas classes (TMEV, FDR 0%). A análise funcional foi realizada pelo software DAVID v6.7. Validação técnica foi realizada em 6 amostras previamente analisadas no microarray e a validação biológica em fibroblastos obtidos de outros 16 pacientes utilizando-se de RT-qPCR. Resultados: O perfil de expressão gênica dos fibroblastos obtidos de diferentes sítios mostraram 267 genes diferencialmente expressos, os quais apropriadamente agruparam os fibroblastos de acordo com suas origens (PT vs. N+ vs. BM). Apesar das diferenças entre PT e N+ serem representadas por 20 genes, as diferenças entre PT vs. BM e N+ vs BM foram mais significantes (235 e 245 genes diferencialmente expressos respectivamente). Análise funcional dos genes diferencialmente expressos mostrou enriquecimento de funções relacionadas ao desenvolvimento e morfogênese.A seguir, a expressão de alguns genes selecionados foi analisada em uma série diferente de amostras (validação biológica). Desse modo observamos que NOTCH2 confirmou uma alta expressão em N+ (vs. PT), e ADCY2, HECTD1, HNMT, LOX, MACF1 e USP16 confirmaram alta expressão em BM (vs PT). Conclusão:Em pacientes com câncer de mama, células estromais obtidas de diferentes origens apresentam um perfil de expressão gênica diferencial, o qual pode influenciar o comportamento do tumor / may influence tumor development in the primary site of breast cancer, as well as in regional and distant metastatic sites. In this context, fibroblasts are important stromal cells which influence proliferation and migration of cancer cells and may also provide an appropriate niche to tumor development. Objectives: The main objective of this work is the comparison of stromal cells from the primary tumor (PT), lymph node metastasis (N+) and bone marrow (BM) obtained from breast cancer patients, through gene expression profile. Patients and Methods: The gene expression profile was analyzed in fibroblasts primary culture from 11 breast cancer patients. The expression profiles of PT cells (n=4), N+ cells (n=3) and BM cells (n=4) were determined through a customized cDNA microarray platform (containing 4800 immobilized sequences which represents 4600 genes approximately). The analysis were performed by SAM multiclass (TMEV; FDR 0%), followed by SAM two classes test (TMEV; FDR 0%). Functional analysis was performed using DAVID v6.7. Technical validation was performed in same 6 samples that were previously analyzed in microarray experiments and biological validation was performed in fibroblasts obtained from other group of 16patients by RT-qPCR Results: The expression profile of fibroblasts obtained from three sites revealed 267 differentially expressed genes, which appropriately clustered fibroblasts in three different branches, in accordance with their origin (PT vs. N+ vs. BM). Although the differences between PT and N+ were represented by 20 genes, differences between PT vs. BM and N+ vs. BM were more significant (235 and 245 differentially expressed genes respectively). Functional analysis revealed enrichment of functions related to development and morphogenesis. Afterwards, the expression of some selected genes were analyzed in a different batch of samples (biological validation).Thereby, NOTCH2 confirmed high expression in N+ (vs. PT), and ADCY2, HECTD1, HNMT, LOX, MACF1 and USP16 confirmed high expression in BM (vs. PT). Conclusion: In breast cancer patients, stromal cells obtained from different origins present a differential gene expression profile, which may influence tumor behavior

Chez l’adulte les premières étapes du développement hématopoïétique se déroulent dans la moelle osseuse (MO). La contribution de cellules d’origine mésenchymateuse, appelées niches stromales, a été démontrée dans le cas de la maintenance des cellules souches hématopoïétiques (CSH) et du développement des lymphocytes B (LB). Ainsi la maintenance des CSH dépend de niches périvasculaires sécrétant CXCL12 et SCF. Par ailleurs les LB les plus précoces (preproB) sont en contact de cellules stromales CXCL12+, puis migrent vers des cellules stromales exprimant l’interleukine-7 lors de leur différentiation en cellules proB. L’expression du préBCR, marque ensuite l’entrée dans le stade préB. À ce stade, les cellules sont au contact de cellules stromales galectine-1+.Malgré les progrès obtenus dans la compréhension du rôle des niches stromales, leur hétérogénéité et les mécanismes contrôlant la migration et l’adhésion des cellules hématopoïétiques en différenciation restent à mieux définir. Dans cet objectif, nous avons caractérisé phénotypiquement les cellules stromales de la MO mais aussi démontré l’existence d’une niche multi-spécifique, associée aux sinusoïdes et capable de soutenir les CSH et les LB.La contribution des niches dans le développement et la résistance aux traitements des Leucémies Aigues Lymphoblastiques de type B (LAL-B), équivalents pathologiques des LB en développement, a aussi été démontrée. Au cours de mon travail de thèse nous avons révélé l'influence d'un facteur exprimé par des cellules stromales de la MO sur la prolifération des LAL-B. À terme, ces travaux permettront de développer des traitements ciblant les fonctions protectrices des niches tumorales. / In adults, the early stages of hematopoietic development take place in the bone marrow (BM). The contribution of specialized cells of mesenchymal origin, called stromal niches, has been demonstrated in the case of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) maintenance and B lymphocyte development. Indeed, the maintenance of HSC depends on perivascular niches secreting CXCL12 and SCF. Furthermore progenitor B cells (preproB) are in contact with CXCL12+ stromal cells and migrate towards interleukin 7 expressing stromal cells during their differentiation into proB cells. PreBCR expression then marks the entrance into the preB cell stage. At this point, the cells are in contact with galectin-1+ stromal cells.Although progress have been made in understanding the role of stromal cell niches, their heterogeneity and the mechanisms controlling migration and adhesion of differentiating hematopoietic cells are controversial and remain to be defined. With this objective, we characterized phenotypically BM stromal cells but also demonstrated the existence of a multi-specific niche, associated to sinusoids and able to support both HSC and early B cells.The contribution of BM niches in the development and resistance to treatment of B cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL), pathological equivalent of developing B cells has also been demonstrated. During my PhD, our work revealed the influence of a factor expressed by BM stromal cells on the proliferation of B-ALL. Ultimately, this work will allow the development of treatments targeting the protective functions of tumor niches.

This work is concerned with the characterization of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) specifically from bone marrow samples derived from patients with osteoarthritis (OA). The multilineage potential of mesenchymal stem cells as well as their ease of exvivo expansion makes these cells an attractive therapeutic tool for applications such as autologous transplantation and tissue engineering. Bone marrow is considered a source of MSC. However, there is a general assumption that the occurrence of MSCs and their activity in bone marrow diminishes with age and disease. This prompted us to isolate and identify multipotential and self-renewing cells from patients with the degenerative disease osteoarthritis, with the view of using these cells for autologous cell therapies. It is therefore of great potential benefit to investigate the isolation and characterization of stem cell/progenitors from bone marrow samples of patients with osteoarthritis in greater detail. We employed a single cell clone culture method in order to develop clonal cell populations from three bone marrow samples and characterized them based on their proliferation and differentiation capabilities. The clonal populations were grouped into fast-growing and slow-growing clones based on their proliferation rates. The fastgrowing clones displayed 20-30% greater proliferation rate than the slow-growing clones. The study also revealed that the proliferation rates were directly proportional to their differentiation capacities. Most of the fast-growing clones were found to be tripotential for osteogenic, chondrogenic and adipogenic lineages, whereas the slow growing clones were either uni or bipotential. Flow cytometry analysis for the phenotype determination using putative MSC surface markers did not reveal any difference between the two clonal populations indicating a need for further molecular studies. Two approaches were employed to further investigate the molecular processes involved in the existence of such varying populations. In the first method gene expression studies were performed between the fast-growing (n=3) and slow-growing (n=3) clonal populations to identify potential genetic markers associated with cell 'sternness' using the Stem Cell RT2 ProfilerTM PCR Array comprising a series of 84 genes related to stem cell pathways. Ten genes were identified to be commonly and significantly over represented in the fast-growing stem cell clones when compared to slow-growing clones. This included expression of transcripts beyond MSC lineage specification such as SOX2, NOTCH1 and FOXA2 which signified that stem cell maintenance requires a coordinated regulation by multiple signalling pathways. The second study involved an extensive protein expression profiling of the fast growing (n=2) and slow growing (n=2) clonal populations using off-line Two Dimensional Liquid Chromatography (2D-LC)/Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI) Mass Spectrometry (MS). A total of 67 proteins were identified, of which 11 were expressed at significantly different levels between the subpopulations. Protein ontology revealed these proteins to be associated with cellular organization, cytokinesis, signal transduction, energy pathways and cell stress response. Of particular interest was the differential presentation of the proteins calmodulin, tropomyosin and caldesmon between fast- and slow-growing clones. Based on their reported roles in the regulation of cell proliferation and maintenance of cell integrity, we draw an association between their expression and the altered status in which the subpopulations exist. Based on our observations, these proteins may be prospective molecular markers to distinguish between the fast-growing and slow-growing subpopulations. In summary, this study demonstrated the existence of potential stem cells of therapeutic importance in spite of a supposedly smaller stem cell compartment in patients with osteoarthritis. Furthermore, the differentially expressed genes between the sub-populations highlight the 'sternness' of the potential clones, an observation supported by the expression of proteins which act as effective modulators in the maintenance of cell integrity and cell cycle regulation. This study provides a basis for more detailed investigations in search of selective cell surface markers

Afin d’améliorer au mieux le greffon placentaire, nous suggérons de réaliser sa culture d’expansion ex vivo dans des conditions proches de l’environnement des cellules souches hématopoïétiques in vivo. Ainsi, nous proposons que la co-culture de cellules CD34+ placentaires avec des cellules stromales mésenchymateuses (CSM) à basses concentrations d’O2 (BC-O2) pourrait contribuer à équilibrer les processus d’autorenouvellement et de différenciation afin d’obtenir un greffon optimisé. Sur le plan fonctionnel, nos résultats confirment un effet bénéfique de notre modèle expérimental par rapport aux conditions où figure la culture simple et/ou l’oxygénation atmosphérique (20%) en termes du maintien de progéniteurs (PH) primitifs (pré-CFC) et de cellules souches Scid-Repopulating Cells (SRC). Sur le plan quantitatif, l’amplification des cellules CD34+ et des PH engagés, bien qu’elle soit en retrait dans nos conditions de référence par rapport à la condition de 20% d’O2, elle demeure néanmoins importante. Par ailleurs, le rôle de l’IL-3 exogène se montre crucial à BC-O2 notamment en co-culture à 1,5% d’O2 où elle permet non seulement de préserver mais aussi d’amplifier le taux de SRC par rapport au témoin de cellules CD34+ de J0. Enfin, l’étude de la sécrétion des facteurs solubles et l’expression des marqueurs phénotypiques sur les CSM montre que l’IL-6, le VEGF et l’IL-8 sont plus sécrétés et les CD146, CD49a, CD54, CD200 et CD105 sont plus exprimés après incubation à 5% d’O2. Cependant, l’implication réelle de ces facteurs et antigènes dans l’effet paracrine et/ou de contact cellulaire direct menés par les CSM dans notre protocole requiert de nouvelles investigations / To optimize at best the hematopoietic engraftment, we suggest in this work to improve the ex vivo expansion conditions by moving them closer to physiology. Indeed, we propose to culture placental CD34+ (HSC/PH) on MSC layer in combination with LO2-C to ensure the amplification of HP together with the maintenance/expansion of HSC. Compared to the single culture and/or atmospheric oxygenation, our experimental model allows a better maintenance of primitive HP (Pre-CFC) and HSC together with a quite good amplification of total cells, CD34+ cells and committed HP despite of lower than control condition. Moreover, exogenous IL-3 shows crucial effect in co-culture at LO2-C (1.5% O2) since its addition better preserves and even increases the number of HSC compared to the CD34+ cells control from D0. We then studied the secretion of soluble factors in culture supernatants and found that IL-6, VEGF and IL-8 were present in larger quantities at LO2-C in both co-culture and MSC culture. Finally, the CD146, CD49a, CD54, CD200 and CD105 membrane antigens appear to be up-regulated in MSCs when incubated at 5% O2. However, the involvement of these factors and antigens in paracrine effect and/or direct cell to cell contact mechanisms at LO2-C requires further investigations. In conclusion, the combination of LO2-C and MSC would be promising in the field of HSC/PH grafts expansion to achieve its main objective of reducing the post-transplant cytopenia period together with maintaining the long-term graft potential

Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T20:50:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-02-22. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-08-11T03:26:13Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 Publico-12887.pdf: 1856396 bytes, checksum: 42de9f60d780e16634f25ebf960a3c24 (MD5) / Lesões no sistema nervoso central (SNC) levam a permeabilidade da barreira hematoencefálica, o que permite a entrada de células do sistema imune e a ativação das células da glia, principalmente microglia e astrócitos. Esse processo desencadeia a secreção de mediadores inflamatórios por essas células. As citocinas são as principais moléculas da resposta neuroinflamatória e são críticas para a regulação desta resposta, exercendo uma variedade de ações no SNC. Células tronco mesenquimais (CTMs), que possuem potencial proliferativo e são capazes de originar linhagens celulares distintas e especializadas, também secretam essas moléculas, caracterizando um poder imunomodulador. As CTMs, particularmente as derivadas da medula óssea, promovem o reparo tecidual pela secreção de fatores que aumentam a regeneração do tecido, estimulando proliferação, migração e diferenciação de progenitores endógenos encontrados na maioria dos tecidos, diminuindo a resposta imune e inflamatória e a apoptose. A habilidade de essas células alterarem o microambiente através de sua influência trófica pode contribuir mais significativamente para o reparo do tecido que a transdiferenciação. Nossa hipótese é que as citocinas secretadas pelas CTMs poderiam participar da atração de células tronco neurais endógenas para um local de lesão no SNC, criando um microambiente favorável para essas células. Tendo isso em vista, esta tese teve como objetivo estudar os efeitos dos fatores secretados pelas CTMs sobre células tronco neurais (CTNs) in vitro, e analisar a expressão de citocinas por CTMs in vivo em um modelo de lesão traumática no SNC. Primeiramente, avaliamos os efeitos dos fatores secretados pelas CTMs sobre apoptose, proliferação e diferenciação de CTNs adultas derivadas da zona subventricular e cultivadas como neuroesferas. Para isso, cultivamos as neuroesferas em meio condicionado por CTMs derivadas de medula óssea. Além disso, foram realizadas lesões no córtex motor primário dos animais, seguidas da injeção de CTMs no local da lesão. Nossos resultados indicam que os fatores secretados pelas CTMs não induzem nem previnem a apoptose das CTNs, aumentam a proliferação dessas células e induzem maior expressão do gene GFAP in vitro, o que indicaria uma tendência a diferenciação em astrócitos. Nos experimentos in vivo, nossos resultados mostram que a injeção das CTMs em um modelo de lesão aguda no SNC diminui a expressão de citocinas pró-inflamatórias no tecido lesado, indicando que os fatores solúveis secretados por CTMs podem modular a inflamação no local lesado, o que pode ser interessante para a criação de um microambiente favorável para CTNs endógenas e conseqüentemente para o reparo do tecido lesado. / Central nervous system (CNS) injury breakes the impermeability of the blood brain barrier, this allows the invasion of immune cells and activation of glial cells, mainly microglia and astrocytes. This process triggers the secretion of inflammatory mediators by these cells. Cytokines are the main molecules in neuroinflammatory response and are critical for its regulation, exerting a variety of actions in the CNS. Furthermore, mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) which have proliferative potential and are able to originate different and specialized cell lineages, also secrete these molecules, characterizing its immunomodulatory function. MSC, particularly those derived from bone marrow, promote tissue repair by secreting factors that enhance tissue regeneration stimulating proliferation, migration and differentiation of endogenous stem-like progenitors found in most tissues, decreasing inflammatory and immune reactions and apoptosis. The ability of such cells to alter tissue microenvironment through its trophic influence may contribute more significantly than their capacity for transdifferentiation in effecting tissue repair.Our hypothesis is that MSC secreted cytokines could take part in the attraction of endogenous neural stem cells (NSC) to an injury site in the CNS, providing a favorable microenvironment for these cells. Our aim was to study the effects of factors secreted by MSC on NSC in vitro and to analyse the MSC cytokines expression in vivo in a model of CNS traumatic injury. We first evaluated the effects of MSC secreted factors on apoptosis, proliferation and differentiation of adult NSC derived from the subventricular zone and cultured as neurospheres. Neurospheres were cultured in MSC conditioned medium (MSC-CM), which was obtained from bone marrow-derived MSC cultures. Besides a traumatic injury was performed at the primary motor cortex of mice and MSCs were injected at the injury site. Our results show that MSC secreted factors do not induce or prevent NSC apoptosis, increase NSC proliferation and induce bigger expression of GFAP gene in vitro, this could indicate a tendency of differentiation to astrocytes. In vivo experiments show that MSC injection at an acute model of injury diminishes pro-inflamatory cytokines in the injured tissue, suggesting that MSC secreted factors may modulate the inflammation at the injury site, which may be interest to the development favorable microenvironment for endogenous NSC and consequently repair of the injured tissue. / TEDE / BV UNIFESP: Teses e dissertações

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Além de seu potencial de diferenciação em diferentes tipos celulares, as CTM apresentam a habilidade de secretar moléculas bioativas e, assim, exercer múltiplos efeitos biológicos, tais como indução da regeneração de tecidos lesionados, redução de fibrose e modulação do sistema imune. A superexpressão dos fatores de crescimento G-CSF e IGF-1, conhecidos por seus efeitos sobre os processos de imunomodulação, sobrevivência celular e reparo tecidual, pode ampliar as ações terapêuticas das CTM. O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em gerar e caracterizar linhagens de CTM de camundongo superexpressando hGCSF ou hIGF-1. Um sistema lentiviral de segunda geração foi utilizado para modificação de CTM para expressão ectópica dos genes de interesse. As sequências codificantes de hG-CSF e hIGF-1 foram amplificadas por PCR e subclonadas em um vetor lentiviral de transferência, contendo um promotor constitutivo. As partículas lentivirais foram produzidas a partir da cotransfecção de células da linhagem HEK293FT com os vetores constituintes do sistema lentiviral. Em seguida, as CTM obtidas da medula óssea de camundongos transgênicos para proteína fluorescente verde (GFP) foram transduzidas com partículas lentivirais infectantes contendo hG-CSF ou hIGF-1. A expressão gênica de hG-CSF ou hIGF-1 pelas linhagens geradas foi quantificada por qRTPCR, e a produção da proteína por ELISA. As linhagens foram caracterizadas por imunofenotipagem e avaliadas quanto ao seu potencial de diferenciação celular. Foram geradas duas linhagens de CTM superexpressando hG-CSF e três linhagens superexpressando hIGF-1. Todas demonstraram por qRTPCR, estar efetivamente expressando os genes de interesse. Foi possível detectar e quantificar a síntese proteica de G-CSF e IGF-1. Todas as linhagens geradas foram capazes de se diferenciar em osteócitos, condrócitos e adipócitos, demonstrando a manutenção de seu fenótipo estromal. Neste contexto, este trabalho resultou em ferramentas funcionais para a avaliação dos efeitos terapêuticos de IGF-1 e G-CSF combinados à CTM, em modelos de lesões animais, em comparação com CTM não-modificadas geneticamente. Além disso, estas ferramentas poderão ser empregadas em estudos de pesquisa básica, para melhor compreensão dos efeitos de hIGF-1 e hG-CSF sobre a biologia das CTM. / Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a promising tool for the cell therapy field. In addition to their potential for differentiation into different cell types, MSCs have the ability to secrete bioactive molecules and thus exert multiple biological effects such as induction of the injured tissue regeneration, fibrosis reduction and modulation of the immune system. The overexpression of the growth factors G-CSF and IGF-1, known for their effects on immune modulation processes, cell survival and tissue repair, can result in a magnification of MSCs' therapeutic actions. The objective of this work is to generate and characterize mouse MSCs lines overexpressing hG-CSF or hIGF-1. A second generation lentiviral system was used to modify MSCs derived from mice for the ectopic expression of the genes of interest. The coding sequences of hG-CSF and hIGF-1 were amplified by PCR and subcloned into a lentiviral transfer vector containing a constitutive promoter. The lentiviral particles were produced from the co-transfection of HEK293FT lineage cells with the lentiviral vectors. Subsequently, MSCs obtained from the bone marrow of transgenic mice for green fluorescent protein (GFP) were transduced with infectious lentiviral particles containing hG-CSF or hIGF-1. The gene expression of hG-CSF or hIGF-1 by the generated cell lines was quantified by qRTPCR, and the protein production by ELISA. The lineages were characterized by immunophenotyping and evaluated for their potential of cellular differentiation. Two lines of MSCs overexpressing hG-CSF and three lines overexpressing hIGF-1 were generated. All the cell lines demonstrated to be effectively expressing the genes of interest by qRTPCR. It was possible to detect and quantify the protein synthesis of G-CSF and IGF-1. Moreover, all the generated lines were capable of differentiating into osteocytes, chondrocytes and adipocytes, indicating the conservation of their stromal phenotype even after genetic modification. In this context, this study resulted in functional tools for evaluating the IGF-1 and G-CSF therapeutic effects when combined with MSCs, to be tested in experimental animal models in comparison to non-genetically modified MSCs. Furthermore, these tools may be employed for basic research studies, for a better understanding of the effects of hIGF-1 and hG-CSF on MSCs' biology

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have demonstrated significant potential for clinical use due to their convenient isolation, lack of significant immunogenicity, lack of ethical controversy and their potential to differentiate into tissue-specific cell types. MSCs reside in almost all tissues including the adipose tissue. Adipose tissue has main advantages as wide distribution in the organism, suitable isolation and considerable amount of resident multipotent stem cells. Therefore, in this study, adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells (AT-MSCs) were isolated from BALB/c mice omentum and epididymis fat pats. During AT-MSCs maintenance and expansion in vitro, they were characterized for the expression of antigenic surface markers and for osteogenic, chondrogenic, and adipogenic differentiation potential. AT-MSCs form both sources expressed mesenchymal surface markers, CD73, and CD105 and were negative for a hematopoietic marker, CD45. The cultures derived from both adipose tissues differentiated into all three lineages. However, differences were observed in mesenchymal surface marker expression profiles as well as in the differentiation potential of AT-MSCs from different fat sources. Furthermore, AT-MSCs isolated from omentum fat depot were cultured with differentiation medium containing retinoic acid and testicular cell conditioned medium. After treatment periods, AT-MSCs showed Gdnf gene expression, this gene is a marker for Sertoli cells. The results showed that AT-MSCs from distinct fat depots have different characteristics related to stem cell surface marker expression profiles and differentiation potential. / Células-tronco mesenquimais têm demonstrado significativo potencial para aplicação terapêutica devido ao seu fácil isolamento, baixa imunogenicidade, ausência das implicações éticas e sua ampla plasticidade. Essas células estão nos mais diversos tecidos, destacando-se o tecido adiposo devido á sua ampla distribuição no organismo, conveniente obtenção e o considerável número de células-tronco mesenquimais multipotentes que podem ser isoladas desse tecido. Assim sendo, no presente estudo, células-tronco mesenquimais derivadas do tecido adiposo (AT-MSCs) foram isoladas do tecido adiposo localizado nas regiões próximas ao omento e testículos de camundongos BALB/c. Durante a manutenção e expansão das AT-MSCs in vitro, elas foram caracterizadas quanto à presença de marcadores antigênicos de superfície e potencial de diferenciação nas linhagens osteogênica, condrogênica e adipogênica. AT-MSCs de ambas as fontes expressaram os marcadores mesenquimais de superfície, CD73 e CD105, assim como foram negativas para o marcador de linhagens hematopoiéticas, CD45. Quanto ao potencial de diferenciação, os cultivos provenientes das duas origens de tecido adiposo apresentaram capacidade de diferenciar nas três linhagens acima citadas. Porém, foram observadas discretas diferenças tanto nos padrões de expressão dos marcadores mesenquimais de superfície quanto nos potenciais de diferenciação entre as AT-MSCs provenientes dos diferentes locais de deposição de gordura. Além disso, as AT-MSCs isoladas do tecido adiposo depositado em contato com o omento quando cultivadas com meios de diferenciação, contendo ácido retinóico e meio condicionado testicular demonstraram expressão do gene Gdnf o qual é reconhecidamente expresso pelas células de Sertoli. Portanto, os resultados obtidos demonstram que conforme a origem do tecido adiposo as AT-MSCs possuem diferentes características relacionadas aos marcadores de superfície assim como aos potenciais de diferenciação.

As células-tronco hematopoéticas (CTHs) e estromais mesenquimais multipotentes (CTMs) isoladas da medula óssea vêm sendo utilizadas como fonte autóloga no tratamento de doenças autoimunes, como a esclerose múltipla (EM). As CTHs dão origem a todas as células dos sistemas hematopoético e imunológico e as CTMs possuem propriedades imunomoduladoras pela liberação de fatores solúveis e interação célula-célula. Existem trabalhos que sugerem que as doenças autoimunes sejam provenientes de defeitos intrínsecos nas células-tronco precursoras da medula óssea. Com o intuito de avaliar se as CTHs e CTMs de pacientes com EM possuem alterações intrínsecas, o objetivo geral deste trabalho foi avaliar o perfil de expressão gênica diferencial por microarrays de CTHs e CTMs de pacientes com EM, além de avaliar o perfil de expressão gênica de CTMs após o transplante autólogo de CTHs e a capacidade imunomoduladora in vitro das CTMs de pacientes. As CTHs e CTMs foram isoladas da medula óssea de pacientes com EM e doadores saudáveis, após consentimento informado. As CTHs foram isoladas por colunas imunomagnéticas e as CTMs foram isoladas por gradiente de densidade e submetidas à caracterização morfológica, imunofenotípica e capacidade de diferenciação em adipócitos e osteócitos. O RNA das CTHs e CTMs foi extraído e purificado e o perfil de expressão gênica foi avaliado por microarrays, utilizando hibridações em lâminas contendo 44.000 sondas. A capacidade imunomoduladora das CTMs de pacientes e controles foi avaliada por ensaios de cocultivo com linfócitos alogênicos e as citocinas foram quantificadas no sobrenadante por CBA flex e ELISA. Este estudo foi aprovado pelo comitê de ética do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto. Os resultados mostraram que as CTHs de pacientes possuem perfis de expressão gênica diferentes dos controles, com 2.722 genes diferencialmente expressos, envolvidos em vias de sinalização importantes para manutenção/proliferação das CTHs e diferenciação em linhagens específicas durante a hematopoese. Dentre essas sinalizações estão incluídas as vias da apoptose, Wnt, Notch, mTOR, PI3K/Akt e Ca/NFAT, sugerindo que as CTHs de pacientes com EM possuam alterações intrínsecas que podem estar relacionadas com a patogenia da doença autoimune. As CTMs isoladas de pacientes com EM exibiram aparência senescente e reduzida expressão de marcadores imunofenotípicos. Com relação à expressão gênica, as CTMs de pacientes possuem perfil diferente das CTMs controle, sendo detectados 618 genes diferencialmente expressos, incluindo genes relacionados à sinalização FGF, HGF, sinalização de moléculas de adesão e moléculas envolvidas nos processos de imunorregulação, como IL10, IL6, TGFB1, IFNGR1, IFNGR2 e HGF. O perfil de expressão gênica das CTMs de pacientes pós-transplante assemelhou-se ao perfil das CTMs pré-transplante. Ensaios de cocultivo de CTMs com linfócitos alogênicos mostraram que as CTMs de pacientes possuem capacidade antiproliferativa reduzida em relação às CTMs controle, e ainda, secreção reduzida de TGF- e IL-10 no sobrenadante das coculturas. Esses dados sugerem que as CTMs isoladas de pacientes com EM possuam alterações fenotípicas, transcricionais e funcionais. Embasados nesses achados, concluímos que as CTHs e as CTMs de pacientes com EM possuem alterações intrínsecas que podem estar relacionadas com a patogenia da doença. Uma vez que as CTMs sejam células com grande potencial terapêutico para controle da EM em pacientes refratários aos tratamentos convencionais, as alterações encontradas sugerem que CTMs de doadores saudáveis sejam mais adequadas em aplicações clínicas. / Bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) have been used as an autologous source to treat autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS). HSC give rise to all hematopoietic and immune system cells, and MSCs exhibit immunomodulatory properties by releasing soluble factors and by cell-cell interactions. Evidence indicates that bone marrow stem cells obtained from patients with autoimmune diseases may present intrinsic defects. To assess whether or not HSC and MSC of MS patients have intrinsic defects, the main objective of this study was to evaluate the differential gene expression profiles of HSC and MSC from MS patients before and after autologous HSC transplantation, and additionally, to evaluate the in vitro immunomodulatory ability of patient MSCs. Bone marrow HSC and MSCs were isolated from MS patients and healthy donors. HSCs were isolated by immunomagnetic columns and MSCs were isolated by gradient density and cultured until the third passage. MSCs were characterized according to morphology, immunophenotypic markers and cell differentiation into adipocytes and osteocytes. HSC and MSCs mRNAs were extracted, purified, and the gene expression profile was evaluated by microarray hybridizations, using a platform containing 44.000 probes. The immunomodulatory activity of patient and control MSCs was assessed by coculture assays with allogeneic lymphocytes. Cytokines were quantified in coculture supernatants by ELISA and CBA flex. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Hospital of the School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto. The results showed that the patient HSCs exhibited a distinctive gene expression profile when compared to healthy HSCs, yielding 2.722 differentially expressed genes, involved in essential HSC signaling pathways for maintenance, proliferation and differentiation into specific lineages during hematopoiesis. Among these signaling pathways were included, apoptosis, Wnt, Notch, mTOR, PI3K/Akt and Ca/NFAT, suggesting that patient HSCs have significant intrinsic transcriptional alterations that may be associated with MS pathogenesis. Regarding MSCs isolated from MS patients, they exhibited senescence appearance, decreased expression of immunophenotypic markers, and also exhibited a distinctive gene expression profile in relation to healthy MSCs, yielding 618 genes differentially expressed genes, included in FGF and HGF signaling pathways, adhesion molecules, and genes involved in immunoregulation processes, such as IL-10, IL-6, TGFB1, IFNGR1, IFNGR2 and HGF. Coculture assays of control or patient MSCs with allogeneic lymphocytes showed that patient cells exhibited reduced antiproliferative activity as compared with controls, and also exhibited reduced secretion of TGF- and IL-10 cytokines in coculture supernatants. These data suggest that MSCs isolated from MS patients have phenotypic, functional and transcriptional defects, highlighting genes related to MSC maintenance, adhesion and immunomodulatory effects. According to these results, we concluded that patient HSCs and MSCs have intrinsic defects that may be associated with the disease per se. Considering that MSCs exhibit great therapeutic potential to control MS patients refractory to conventional treatment, the major MSCs alterations observed in this study indicate that healthy MSCs may be more suitable for MS cell therapy.

A Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crônica (DPOC) é caracterizada pela limitação persistente de trocas gasosas, usualmente progressiva e associada a uma resposta inflamatória crônica exacerbada das vias aéreas a partículas e gases nocivos. Apesar de prevenível e tratável, não se logrou até o presente uma terapêutica eficaz, que resulte na cura da doença. Neste cenário, a terapia celular apresenta-se como uma alternativa terapêutica potencialmente promissora em DPOC, bem como em outras doenças pulmonares degenerativas e de caráter inflamatório. Porém, vários aspectos da terapia celular carecem de um melhor entendimento. Um dos principais desafios ao sucesso da terapia celular são as baixas taxas de sobrevivência das células transplantadas. O Inibidor do Ativador de Plasminogênio 1 (Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1 - PAI-1) pode representar um potencial mediador da sobrevivência de células estromais mesenquimais (CTM) pós-transplante, pois tem sido proposto que anticorpos neutralizadores do PAI-1 auxiliam no aumento da sobrevivência de CTM no tecido-alvo da terapia celular. Desta forma, a diminuição dos níveis de PAI-1 possui um potencial terapêutico interessante, ao modular os principais processos envolvidos na criação de um ambiente pouco propício ao \"homing\" celular durante o processo de injúria. A diminuição dos níveis de PAI-1 é promovida, pela sinvastatina, fármaco da família das estatinas. Desta forma, objetivou-se com este trabalho analisar os efeitos da sinvastatina sobre a expressão do PAI-1, bem como sua influência na sobrevivência das células infundidas para terapia celular de enfisema pulmonar em modelo murino. Camundongos da linhagem FVB foram submetidos à instilação intranasal de elastase para indução de enfisema pulmonar e, posteriormente, tratados com CTM do tecido adiposo e sinvastatina. Os resultados mostraram que, quanto aos aspectos morfológicos e funcionais, considerando-se a análise conjunta de ambos os pulmões, não houve diferença estatisticamente significativa entre os grupos submetidos à instilação intranasal de elastase e submetidos à terapia celular com CTM tratados ou não com sinvastatina. Quando porém os pulmões foram analisados individualmente constatou-se que não houve diferença estatisticamente significativa entre os grupos controle e os resultados referentes ao lado direito do pulmão dos animais tratados com elastase e que receberam sinvastatina e infusão de CTM. Diferenças anatômicas entre os lados direito e esquerdo do pulmão, levaram a uma maior deposição de células no lado direito, como evidenciado pelos resultados obtidos nos ensaios de bioluminescência. Pode-se, portanto, inferir que a recuperação morfológica no lado direito do pulmão de animais com DPOC/enfisema poderia ser decorrente de um efeito regenerativo parácrino das CTM associadas à sinvastatina. / Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - COPD is characterized by the persistent limitation of gas exchange, is usually progressive, and associated to a chronic augmented inflammatory response of the airways to particles and noxious gases. Despite preventable e treatable, an effective, curative therapeutic approach is yet to be achieved. In this context, cell therapy presents itself as a promising therapeutic approach for COPD and other pulmonary inflammatory and degenerative diseases. However, many aspects of cell therapy with stem cells remain unclear. One of the major challenges to the success of cell therapy are the low survival rates of transplanted cells. The Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1 (PAI-1) is a potential mediator of the survival of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) after transplantation, since PAI-1 neutralizing antibodies have been shown to increase the survival rate of MSC in the target tissue of cell therapy. Thus, the decreased levels of PAI-1 has an interesting therapeutic potential to modulate key processes involved in creating an inhospitable environment, during the process of injury, to the homing of transplanted cells. Decreased levels of PAI-1 are promoted by simvastatin, a drug of the statins family. Thus, the goal of this work was to evaluate the effect of simvastatin in vivo on the expression of PAI-1, as well as its influence on the survival rate of infused cells in mice model of cell therapy for pulmonary COPD/emphysema. FVB mice were submitted pulmonary emphysema induction by means of intranasal instillation of elastase and than treated with adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells and simvastatin. The results regarding morphological and functional aspects, when considering the analisys of both lungs, presented no statistically significant difference among the groups submitted to intranasal instillation of elastase and cell therapy with MSC, treated or not with simvastatin. However, when the lungs where analyzed individually, it was found that there was no statistically significant difference between the control group and the results regarding the right lung of animals treated with elastase and that received simvastatin and MSC infusion. Anatomical differences between the right and left sides of the lung lead to a higher deposition of cells in the right side, as observed in the bioluminescence assays. Thus, it is possible to infer that the morphological recovery in the right side of the lung of animals with DPOC/emphysema could be due to a regenerative paracrine effect of mesenchymal stem cells associated with simvastatin.