[Mesenchymal stem sell donor age effect on the cerebral cortex microvascular net density in old age rats-recipients of transplant]

Adv Gerontol. 2014;27(3):447-51.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Male Wistar-Kyoto rats aged 22-24 months were intracerebrally transplanted with syngenic bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM MSC) established from the donor aged 3-4 months and 20-22 months, respectively. Using a TV device to study microcirculation in vivo, we have established that transplantation of BM MSC from young donors increased a density of the microvascular network in the pia mater of the sensorimotor cortex in old rats approximately 1.9-fold, comparing to age-matched controls, while a density of the arteriolar compartment increased approximately 2.1-fold. Transplantation of BM MSC from old donors did not lead to the significant increase in the density of the microvascular network in the pia mater, while a density of the arteriolar compartment increased approximately 1.5-fold.

MeSH terms

  • Aging / physiology*
  • Animals
  • Cell Differentiation / physiology
  • Cerebral Cortex / blood supply*
  • Cerebral Cortex / cytology
  • Male
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation*
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells / cytology*
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cells / physiology
  • Microvessels / cytology*
  • Neovascularization, Physiologic
  • Pia Mater / blood supply*
  • Pia Mater / cytology
  • Rats, Inbred WKY