PMID- 25491616 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150824 LR - 20221207 IS - 2284-0729 (Electronic) IS - 1128-3602 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 22 DP - 2014 Nov TI - Experimental study on transplantation of autologous minced muscle with human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells for urethral reconstruction. PG - 3412-9 LID - 8080 [pii] AB - OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility and efficiency of the autologous minced muscle-derived regenerate as a living patch graft for the urethral reconstruction with the assistance of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) in the rabbit model. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The hUC-MSCs and minced-muscle-derived regenerate tissue was prepared and used as potential autologous patch graft for the reconstruction of the defective rabbit urethra. Animal with autologous free skeletal muscle piece was observed as control. Histopathological and immunohistochemical staining methods were adopted to evaluate the regenerating effect; the reconstructive effects in New Zealand rabbit were observed in both groups by retrograde urethrography and urinary microscopy. RESULTS: The expression of desmin and anti-human specific nuclear antigen (ANA) were positive for co-culture microsomes in vivo and in vitro; after the reconstructive surgery, histopathological studies revealed fibrous connective tissues and abundant muscle fibers constituted the main body of the patch-grafted urethra. Urethrography and urethroscopy showed no urethral obstruction, stenosis, fistula or diverticula anomaly existed in experimental group. CONCLUSIONS: Our preclinical study showed that the hUC-MSCs and minced-muscle-derived regenerate could be used as an autologous pre-vascularized living patch graft for urethral reconstruction. FAU - Xu, Y AU - Xu Y AD - Urology Department of the PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China. yongyang826@yahoo.cn. FAU - Sun, D-C AU - Sun DC FAU - Wei, Z-T AU - Wei ZT FAU - Hong, B-F AU - Hong BF FAU - Yang, Y AU - Yang Y LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - Italy TA - Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci JT - European review for medical and pharmacological sciences JID - 9717360 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Coculture Techniques MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation/*methods MH - Muscle, Skeletal/cytology/*transplantation MH - Rabbits MH - Plastic Surgery Procedures/*methods MH - Transplantation, Autologous/methods MH - Umbilical Cord/cytology/*transplantation MH - Urethra/pathology/physiology/*surgery EDAT- 2014/12/11 06:00 MHDA- 2015/08/25 06:00 CRDT- 2014/12/11 06:00 PHST- 2014/12/11 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/12/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/08/25 06:00 [medline] AID - 8080 [pii] PST - ppublish SO - Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2014 Nov;18(22):3412-9.