PMID- 22480259 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20121220 LR - 20181201 IS - 1543-8392 (Electronic) IS - 1543-8384 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 5 DP - 2012 May 7 TI - Dendrimer-driven neurotrophin expression differs in temporal patterns between rodent and human stem cells. PG - 1521-8 LID - 10.1021/mp300041k [doi] AB - This study reports the use of a nonviral expression system based on polyamidoamine dendrimers for time-restricted neurotrophin overproduction in mesenchymal stem cells and skin precursor-derived Schwann cells. The dendrimers were used to deliver plasmids for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) or neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) expression in both rodent and human stem cells, and the timelines of expression were studied. We have found that, despite the fact that transfection efficiencies and protein expression levels were comparable, dendrimer-driven expression in human mesenchymal stem cells was characterized by a more rapid decline compared to rodent cells. Transient expression systems can be beneficial for some neurotrophins, which were earlier reported to cause unwanted side effects in virus-based long-term expression models. Nonviral neurotrophin expression is a biologically safe and accessible alternative to increase the therapeutic potential of autologous adult stem cells and stem cell-derived functional differentiated cells. FAU - Shakhbazau, Antos AU - Shakhbazau A AD - Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. shakhbazau@gmail.com FAU - Shcharbin, Dzmitry AU - Shcharbin D FAU - Seviaryn, Ihar AU - Seviaryn I FAU - Goncharova, Natalya AU - Goncharova N FAU - Kosmacheva, Svetlana AU - Kosmacheva S FAU - Potapnev, Mihail AU - Potapnev M FAU - Bryszewska, Maria AU - Bryszewska M FAU - Kumar, Ranjan AU - Kumar R FAU - Biernaskie, Jeffrey AU - Biernaskie J FAU - Midha, Rajiv AU - Midha R LA - eng GR - 163322/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120419 PL - United States TA - Mol Pharm JT - Molecular pharmaceutics JID - 101197791 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Dendrimers) RN - 0 (Nerve Growth Factors) RN - 0 (Neurotrophin 3) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/genetics/metabolism MH - Cell Differentiation/genetics/physiology MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Chondrogenesis/genetics/physiology MH - Dendrimers/*chemistry MH - Humans MH - Mesenchymal Stem Cells/cytology/metabolism MH - Nerve Growth Factors/genetics/*metabolism MH - Neurotrophin 3/genetics/metabolism MH - Osteogenesis/genetics/physiology MH - Plasmids/genetics MH - Transfection/methods EDAT- 2012/04/07 06:00 MHDA- 2012/12/21 06:00 CRDT- 2012/04/07 06:00 PHST- 2012/04/07 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/04/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/12/21 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1021/mp300041k [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Pharm. 2012 May 7;9(5):1521-8. doi: 10.1021/mp300041k. Epub 2012 Apr 19.