Ex Vivo Large Scale Generation of Human Platelets from Cord Blood CD34+ Cells.

Blood ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 106 (11) ◽  
pp. 1892-1892
Author(s):  
Takuya Matsunaga ◽  
Ikuta Tanaka ◽  
Masayoshi Kobune ◽  
Yutaka Kawano ◽  
Maki Tanaka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cord Blood ◽  
Culture System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Culture Medium ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Aggregation Assay ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Cd34 Cells ◽  
Phase Culture

Abstract To obtain a large quantity of platelets (PLTs) from cord blood stem cells (CBSC) in vitro, we employed three-phase culture system. We first expanded CBSC on a monolayer of human telomerase catalytic subunit gene-transduced human stromal cells (hTERT stroma) in serum-free medium supplemented with stem cell factor (SCF), Flt-3/Flk-2 ligand (FL) and thrombopoietin (TPO) for 14 days (1st phase), and then cultured them to differentiate into megakaryocytes for another 14 days with refreshing medium which contain interleukin-11 (IL-11) in addition to original cytokine cocktail (2nd phase). Subsequently, we transferred the cells to a liquid culture medium containing SCF, FL, TPO and IL-11, and cultured them for 5 days (3rd phase) to recover PLTs in the culture medium. The quantity of PLTs recovered from one CB unit (5 x 106 CD34+ cells) was calculated to be 10.5 units (2 x 1011 PLTs). These CB-derived PLTs exhibited quite similar feature as those from peripheral blood in morphology as revealed by electron micrograph and in functions as revealed by aggregation assay and by FACS detecting expression of P-selectin and activated glycoprotein IIb-IIIa antigens upon fibrinogen/ADP stimulation. Thus our three-phase culture system was considered to be useful for large scale generation of PLTs from CB for clinical usage.

Ex-Vivo Generation and Expansion of Both Lymphoid and Myeloid Lineages from Human Cord Blood (CB) HSC Using a Serum-Free Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Based Culture System.

Blood ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 104 (11) ◽  
pp. 2888-2888
Author(s):  
Ana Frias ◽  
Christopher D. Porada ◽  
Kirsten B. Crapnell ◽  
Joaquim M.S. Cabral ◽  
Esmail D. Zanjani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Cord Blood ◽  
Culture System ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Cell Number ◽  
Human Cord Blood ◽  
Serum Free ◽  
Gm Csf ◽  
Cd34 Cells

Abstract The in vitro culture of a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) graft with either media containing animal-derived components or a feeder layer with ill-defined pathogenic potential such as xenogeneic cell lines or cells modified by viral transformation poses risks that concern scientists and regulatory agencies. In the present studies, we avoided these risks by evaluating the ability of a human stromal-based serum free culture system (hu-ST) to support the ex-vivo expansion/maintenance of human CB HSC. CB CD34+ enriched cells were cultured in serum free medium in the presence of hu-ST with SCF, bFGF, LIF and Flt-3, and the cultures were analyzed for expansion, phenotype and clonogenic ability. We have previously reported the ability of this culture system to allow the successful expansion/maintenance of HSC along the myeloid pathway. In the present study, we investigated whether we could further develop this culture system to simultaneously expand myelopoiesis and lymphopoiesis in vitro. To this end, cord blood CD34+ cells were cultured for a total of 28 days and analyzed every 3 days for expansion and phenotype. There was a progressive increase in CD34 cell number with time in culture. The differentiative profile was primarily shifted towards the myeloid lineage with the presence of CD33, CD15, and CD14. However, a significant number of CD7+ cells were also generated. At week 2 of culture, we observed that 30% of the cells in the culture were CD7 positive. These CD7+CD2-CD3-CD5-CD56-CD16-CD34- cells were then sorted and either plated on top of new irradiated hu-ST layers in the presence of SCF, FLT-3, IL-7, IL-2, and IL-15, or cultured with IL-4, GM-CSF, and FLT-3 in the absence of stroma. Both of these cultures were maintained for an additional 2 weeks. In both sets of cultures, further expansion in the total cell number occurred with the time in culture, and by the end of the week 2, we observed that 25.3±4.18% of the cells had become CD56+ CD3-, a phenotype consistent with that of NK cells. Furthermore, cytotoxicity assays were performed and showed cytotoxic activity that increased in an E:T ratio-dependent fashion. 38.6% of the CD7+ cells grown in the presence of IL-4, GM-CSF, and FLT-3 became CD123+CD11c-, a phenotype characteristic of nonactivated dendritic cells, while 7.3–12.1% adopted an activitated dendritic cell phenotype CD83+CD1a+. In summary, we developed an in vitro culture system that reproducibly allows the effective ex vivo expansion of human cord blood HSCs while maintaining the capability of generating both myeloid and lymphoid hematopoiesis in vitro.

Ex Vivo Production of Transfusable Red Blood Cells at Large Scale from Cord Blood CD34+ Cells Using a Coculture System with Human Telomerase Catalytic Subunit (hTERT)-Transfected Human Stromal Cells at Early Phase and with Acitivated Macrophage from Cord Blood CD34+ Cells at Late Phase.

Blood ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 104 (11) ◽  
pp. 2701-2701
Author(s):  
Akihito Fujimi ◽  
Takuya Matsunaga ◽  
Masayoshi Kobune ◽  
Yutaka Kawano ◽  
Ikuta Tanaka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Loss ◽  
Cord Blood ◽  
Stromal Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Acute Blood Loss ◽  
Cd34 Cells ◽  
Cord Blood Cd34 ◽  
Human Stromal Cells

Abstract New sources of red blood cells (RBC) would improve the transfusion capacity of blood centers. Several investigators have previously reported that erythroblasts could be obtained from hematopoietic stem cells including those of cord blood (CB) by in vitro culture. However, transfusion of erythroblasts may not be suitable for supplementation of acute blood loss because it should need some time lag until hemoglobin (RBC) boost in circulation due to the fact that transfused erythroblasts once lodged at bone marrow where they undergo maturation into RBCs which are bound to be released into circulation. We have developed a culture system for producing large quantity of enucleated RBCs (e-RBCs) as well as erythroblasts from CB in vitro: one unit e-RBCs (2 x 1012 RBCs) was obtained from one standard CB unit (corresponding to 2 x 106 CD34+ cells) using a coculture system with hTERT-transfected human stromal cells at early phase followed by with activated macrophage in liquid culture (American Society of Hematology 45th Annual Meeting, SanDiego, 2003). In the present study, we first analyzed the function of those manufactured e-RBCs in comparison of that of adult peripheral blood RBCs (PB-RBCs) or that of eryhthroblasts. The hemoglobin (Hb) content of the e-RBCs quantified by photometric determination was almost equivalent to that of adult PBRBC. A Hb A/Hb F ratio of e-RBC analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HbA: HbF = 35: 65) was between those of CB RBCs (10: 90) and adult PB-RBC (99: 1). Oxygen dissociation curves of e-RBCs measured by Hemox-Analyzer was comparable to that of fresh adult PB-RBCs. The erythroblasts showed adhesive property to stromal cells in vitro but e-RBC did not. When we injected e-RBCs into NOD/SCID mice, they were detectable in circulation while erythroblasts were not. In conclusion, the e-RBCs produced by large-scale culturing system from CB CD34+ cells may be useful for acute blood loss.

Attenuation of Surface CXCR4 Down-Regulation in Human Cord Blood HSC during Ex Vivo Expansion Using the HUBEC Co-Culture System.

Blood ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 106 (11) ◽  
pp. 1068-1068
Author(s):  
Naoko Takebe ◽  
Thomas MacVittie ◽  
Xiangfei Cheng ◽  
Ann M. Farese ◽  
Emily Welty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cord Blood ◽  
Culture System ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Ex Vivo Expansion ◽  
Receptor Internalization ◽  
Down Regulation ◽  
Human Cord Blood ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem ◽  
Gm Csf

Abstract Down-modulation of surface CXCR4, a G-protein-coupled receptor, in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) undergoing ex vivo expansion culturing is considered to be one of the major causes of marrow reconstitution failure, possibly due to an HSC homing defect. Recently, it has been reported that severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)-repopulating cells (SRC) were expanded from the CD34-enriched human adult bone marrow (ABM) or cord blood (CB) hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) using a human brain endothelial cell (HUBEC) co-culture system. We found that primitive cord blood cells expressing surface CXCR4 (82+5%) lost this capability significantly during 7 days of ex vivo expansion in the HUBEC co-culture containing the cytokines stem cell factor (SCF), flt-3, interleukin (IL)-6, IL-3, and granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF). Expression levels of other surface proteins relevant to HSC homing, such as CD49d, CD95, CD26, or CD11a, were not down-modulated. We hypothesized that CXCR4 down-regulation was caused by a receptor internalization and tested several methods to reverse CXCR4 internalization back to the surface, such as elimination of GM-CSF in the culture media, performing a non-contact culture using the transwell, or adding either 0.3Mor 0.4M sucrose, or 25μg/ml chlorpromazine (CPZ), 24 hours prior to the analysis. CPZ and sucrose are known inhibitors of the cytokine-induced endocytosis of CXCR4 in neutrophils (Bruhl H. et al. Eur J Immunol 2003). Interestingly, 0.4M sucrose showed approximately a 2-fold increase of surface CXCR4 expression on CB CD34+ cells by flow cytometry analysis. CPZ and 0.3M sucrose showed a moderate increase expression of CXCR4. Using a transwell HUBEC co-culture system, CXCR4 surface expression on CD34+ cells was down-regulated during the ex vivo culture. In vitro HSC migration test showed 3.1-fold increase in migration compared to the control after incubation of HSC with 0.1M sucrose for 16 hours prior to the in vitro migration study. Eliminating GM-CSF from the cytokine cocktail or adding MG132 increased migration 1.36- and 1.2-fold compared to the control. We are currently performing an in vivo homing assay using nonobese diabetic (NOD)-SCID mice. In conclusion, the HUBEC ex vivo culture system down-regulates surface CXCR4 in human cord blood HSC. The mechanism of CXCR4 surface down regulation may be receptor internalization by cytokines. Sucrose may be useful in attenuation of CXCR4 surface expression in CD34+ HSC by inhibition of receptor internalization via clathrin-coated pits.

Defective Peripheral Blood Endothelial Cell Progenitors in Patients with Scleroderma and Psoriatic Arthritis

Blood ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 112 (11) ◽  
pp. 4724-4724
Author(s):  
Taxiarchis V Kourelis ◽  
Akrivi D Manola ◽  
Despoina Adamidou ◽  
Lazaros Sakkas ◽  
Eyagelia Mperou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psoriatic Arthritis ◽  
Cord Blood ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Culture Medium ◽  
Autologous Bone Marrow ◽  
Autologous Serum ◽  
Cd34 Cells ◽  
Cord Blood Cd34 ◽  
And Function

Abstract Vasculogenesis is known to be defective in patients with scleroderma (SS) and psoriatic arthritis (PA) with vessel loss in the former and hypertrophic blood vessels in the latter in affected areas. We studied the number and function of peripheral blood endothelial progenitors (PBEP) in patients with SS and PA to elucidate the mechanism of EC dysfunction. Materials and Methods: Eleven patients with SS, 13 patients with PA and 7 healthy individuals were studied. We measured CD133+/CD146+ cells in peripheral blood (PB) by immunofluorescence. We performed cell cultures of isolated CD34+ cells in endocult medium and examined the endothelial colonies (EPC). We also performed cocultures of CD34+ and autologous bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC) in double chambers. We also performed cocultures of BMSC from patients and normal endothelial cells from cord blood. Results: The number of CD133+/CD146+ cell in PB was increased the 2 groups of patients compared to controls. The number of EC colonies in endocult did not differ in the 3 groups. The presence of autologous serum within the culture medium reduced the number of colonies in 3 patients with SS. The number and the size of EC colonies from SS patients in vitro were significantly reduced (p<0.01) after co-cultures of autologous BMSC with CD34+ in culture plates with insert while they were increased (p<0.01) from patients with PA. The same was true when cord blood CD34+ cells were cultured in endocult medium in the presence of BMSC of SS and PA patients. Conclusion: EC progenitors from patients with SS and PA are increased in PB and develop normal EC colonies in vitro. They developed decreased colonies in SS and increased colonies in PA when cultured together with with autologous BMSC. This means that possible cell-cell or humoral interactions between EC and some cellular component within BMSC affect the survival and differentiation of EC.

Delayed Engraftment of Nonobese Diabetic/Severe Combined Immunodeficient Mice Transplanted With Ex Vivo–Expanded Human CD34+ Cord Blood Cells

Blood ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 1097-1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Güenechea ◽  
J.C. Segovia ◽  
B. Albella ◽  
M. Lamana ◽  
M. Ramı́rez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cord Blood ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Ex Vivo Expansion ◽  
Hematopoietic Progenitors ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Immunodeficient Mice ◽  
Nonobese Diabetic ◽  
Cd34 Cells

Abstract The ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic progenitors is a promising approach for accelerating the engraftment of recipients, particularly when cord blood (CB) is used as a source of hematopoietic graft. With the aim of defining the in vivo repopulating properties of ex vivo–expanded CB cells, purified CD34+ cells were subjected to ex vivo expansion, and equivalent proportions of fresh and ex vivo–expanded samples were transplanted into irradiated nonobese diabetic (NOD)/severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice. At periodic intervals after transplantation, femoral bone marrow (BM) samples were obtained from NOD/SCID recipients and the kinetics of engraftment evaluated individually. The transplantation of fresh CD34+ cells generated a dose-dependent engraftment of recipients, which was evident in all of the posttransplantation times analyzed (15 to 120 days). When compared with fresh CB, samples stimulated for 6 days with interleukin-3 (IL-3)/IL-6/stem cell factor (SCF) contained increased numbers of hematopoietic progenitors (20-fold increase in colony-forming unit granulocyte-macrophage [CFU-GM]). However, a significant impairment in the short-term repopulation of recipients was associated with the transplantation of the ex vivo–expanded versus the fresh CB cells (CD45+repopulation in NOD/SCIDs BM: 3.7% ± 1.2% v 26.2% ± 5.9%, respectively, at 20 days posttransplantation; P < .005). An impaired short-term engraftment was also observed in mice transplanted with CB cells incubated with IL-11/SCF/FLT-3 ligand (3.5% ± 1.7% of CD45+ cells in femoral BM at 20 days posttransplantation). In contrast to these data, a similar repopulation with the fresh and the ex vivo–expanded cells was observed at later stages posttransplantation. At 120 days, the repopulation of CD45+ and CD45+/CD34+ cells in the femoral BM of recipients ranged between 67.2% to 81.1% and 8.6% to 12.6%, respectively, and no significant differences of engraftment between recipients transplanted with fresh and the ex vivo–expanded samples were found. The analysis of the engrafted CD45+ cells showed that both the fresh and the in vitro–incubated samples were capable of lymphomyeloid reconstitution. Our results suggest that although the ex vivo expansion of CB cells preserves the long-term repopulating ability of the sample, an unexpected delay of engraftment is associated with the transplantation of these manipulated cells.

scholarly journals Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Microvesicles Support Ex Vivo Expansion of Cord Blood-Derived CD34+Cells

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Xie ◽  
Li Sun ◽  
Liming Zhang ◽  
Teng Liu ◽  
Li Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cord Blood ◽  
Progenitor Cells ◽  
Mononuclear Cells ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Ex Vivo Expansion ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem ◽  
Promising Therapeutic Approach ◽  
Cd34 Cells ◽  
Stem And Progenitor Cells

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are known to support the characteristic properties of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) in the bone marrow hematopoietic microenvironment. MSCs are used in coculture systems as a feeder layer for the ex vivo expansion of umbilical cord blood (CB) to increase the relatively low number of HSPCs in CB. Findings increasingly suggest that MSC-derived microvesicles (MSC-MVs) play an important role in the biological functions of their parent cells. We speculate that MSC-MVs may recapitulate the hematopoiesis-supporting effects of their parent cells. In the current study, we found MSC-MVs containing microRNAs that are involved in the regulation of hematopoiesis. We also demonstrated that MSC-MVs could improve the expansion of CB-derived mononuclear cells and CD34+cells and generate a greater number of primitive progenitor cells in vitro. Additionally, when MSC-MVs were added to the CB-MSC coculture system, they could improve the hematopoiesis-supporting effects of MSCs. These findings highlight the role of MSC-MVs in the ex vivo expansion of CB, which may offer a promising therapeutic approach in CB transplantation.

Ex vivo large-scale generation of human red blood cells from cord blood CD34+ cells by co-culturing with macrophages

2008 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akihito Fujimi ◽  
Takuya Matsunaga ◽  
Masayoshi Kobune ◽  
Yutaka Kawano ◽  
Taiko Nagaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cord Blood ◽  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Human Red Blood Cells ◽  
Cd34 Cells ◽  
Cord Blood Cd34

Nanofiber-Based Expansion and Differentiation Technology for High-Volume Ex Vivo Production of Reticulocytes for P. Vivax Malaria Research

Blood ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 118 (21) ◽  
pp. 2357-2357
Author(s):  
Hong Wang ◽  
Adam M Sorkin ◽  
Ramasamy Sakthivel
Keyword(s):  
Cord Blood ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Ex Vivo ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
High Volume ◽  
In Vitro Models ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem

Abstract Abstract 2357 Infection by Plasmodium Vivax (P. Vivax) is the most common cause of Sleeping Malaria. P. Vivax and other plasmodia have grown increasingly resistant to antimalarial drugs. Introduced by mosquito bite, P. vivax sporozoites enter circulation and preferentially penetrate reticulocytes by attaching to the Fya and Fyb Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor (DARC) via PvRBP-1 and PvRBP-2 proteins located at their apical poles. Once in a reticulocyte, the parasite begins to reproduce asexually, releasing of thousands of merozoites into circulation. At this point, merozoites can also enter the liver and triggering relapses months or years later. The emergence of drug-resistant strains of p. vivax has stimulated development of new vaccines and treatments, but progress has been slowed by the dearth of reliable screening platforms. Many vaccine candidates have been developed to act upon vivax merozoites by preventing binding of PvRBP-1 and 2 to DARC, thereby arresting reproduction. However, there is a distinct lack of in vitro models to evaluate candidates that employ this mechanism. We are addressing this issue with a novel ex vivo expansion and differentiation technology for large-scale production of DARC expressing reticulocytes for in vitro P. vivax infection studies. This technology comprises an expansion system that can produce high yields of hematopoietic precursors (CD133+/CD34+ cells) from a variety of sources (marrow, peripheral blood, and cord blood), and a differentiation system to produce a relatively pure population of enucleated erythrocytes. In this study, we have refined the polyethersulfone (PES) nanofiber-based culturing system containing growth factors and cytokines in a serum-free media, to expand hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) ex vivo. This expansion technology allows rapid 200-fold ex vivo proliferation within 7 days of umbilical cord blood derived CD133+/CD34+ HSPCs from a DARC+ donor. Following expansion, over 50% of these cells retained HSPC phenotype (expression of CD34+). We have subsequently demonstrated that feeder layer free three-step differentiation of nanofiber-expanded cells using cytokines results in a population containing predominately enucleated reticulocyte-like cells. At 21 days of differentiation, cells had expanded 50-fold. Around 41% of cells were enucleated reticulocytes. These cells expressed glycophorin-A, a major sialoglycoprotein present on the human erythrocyte membrane. ∼28% of cells were CD36+, and ∼70% were CD71+ indicating an erythroid lineage. These results suggest that this technology can produce a population of DARC+ reticulocytes that is ∼5,000-fold greater than the starting population of HSPCs. We are partnering with leading malaria vaccine researchers to demonstrate that these reticulocytes can be parasitized by p. vivax. We believe that this will provide a unique platform to jumpstart research of malaria parasites and enable rapid development of effective vaccines. Further development of this technology may also have significant implications for large-scale ex vivo production of erythrocytes for general use. Reticulocyte-like cells and expelled nuclei during differentiation of nanofiber-expanded HSPC. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

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