PMID- 27384607 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170427 LR - 20181113 IS - 1420-908X (Electronic) IS - 1023-3830 (Linking) VI - 65 IP - 10 DP - 2016 Oct TI - The modulation of Th2 immune pathway in the immunosuppressive effect of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells in a murine asthmatic model. PG - 795-801 LID - 10.1007/s00011-016-0961-y [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease that has a high prevalence nowadays, and seeking the means of relieving asthmatic symptoms is now an issue with increased importance. While mesenchymal stem cells have been demonstrated to display immunomodulatory effects, the effect of fetus-type mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) on asthmatic symptoms in vivo have not been reported to date. METHODS: Female BALB/c mice at 8 weeks of age were sensitized by ovalbumin, and MSCs derived from Wharton's jelly of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) were injected into the asthmatic mice. Airway hyper-responsiveness, lung eosinophil infiltration, cytokine level in splenocyte cultures and serum immunoglobulin level were measured. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to determine cytokine and immunoglobulin levels. RESULTS: This current study demonstrated that hUCMSCs attenuated both lung lymphocyte and eosinophil infiltration, and significantly decreased the concentration of Th2 cytokines interleukin-5 in splenocyte cultures. CONCLUSIONS: Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells have the advantage of being easily harvested non-invasively and are capable of rapid proliferation, therefore an ideal material for stem cell-based immune therapies. The current study showed that fetal-type MSCs were able to suppress asthmatic symptoms efficiently, and its immunomodulatory effect resulted primarily from suppressing the Th2 pathway in the animal model. This study suggested that hUCMSCs could be an ideal candidate for cell-based therapies of asthma. FAU - Chan, Chin-Kan AU - Chan CK AD - Department of Pediatrics, Taoyuan General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan. AD - Hsin Sheng Junior College of Medical Care and Management, Taoyuan, Taiwan. FAU - Lin, Ting-Chun AU - Lin TC AD - Division of Allergy, Asthma and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, No. 5, Fu-Hsin Street, Kweishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan. AD - School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. FAU - Huang, Yung-An AU - Huang YA AD - Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. FAU - Chen, Ya-Shan AU - Chen YS AD - Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. FAU - Wu, Chia-Ling AU - Wu CL AD - Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. FAU - Lo, Huei-Yu AU - Lo HY AD - Department of Gynaecology, Taoyuan General Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan. FAU - Kuo, Ming-Ling AU - Kuo ML AD - Division of Allergy, Asthma and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, No. 5, Fu-Hsin Street, Kweishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan. AD - Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. FAU - Wu, Kang-Hsi AU - Wu KH AD - Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital and School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University and Hospitals, Taichung, Taiwan. d5284@mail.cmuh.org.tw. FAU - Huang, Jing-Long AU - Huang JL AD - Division of Allergy, Asthma and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, No. 5, Fu-Hsin Street, Kweishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan. long@adm.cgmh.org.tw. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160706 PL - Switzerland TA - Inflamm Res JT - Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] JID - 9508160 RN - 0 (Allergens) RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 0 (Immunoglobulin G) RN - 37341-29-0 (Immunoglobulin E) RN - 9006-59-1 (Ovalbumin) SB - IM MH - Allergens MH - Animals MH - Asthma/immunology/*therapy MH - Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid/cytology MH - Cytokines/immunology MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Eosinophils/immunology MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Immunoglobulin E/immunology MH - Immunoglobulin G/immunology MH - Leukocyte Count MH - *Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - Ovalbumin MH - Spleen/cytology MH - Th2 Cells/immunology MH - Umbilical Cord/cytology OTO - NOTNLM OT - Allergic symptoms OT - Asthma OT - MSC OT - Mesenchymal stem cell OT - Mice OT - Murine OT - Umbilical cord OT - Wharton's jelly EDAT- 2016/07/08 06:00 MHDA- 2017/04/28 06:00 CRDT- 2016/07/08 06:00 PHST- 2015/06/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/06/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/06/03 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2016/07/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/07/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/04/28 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s00011-016-0961-y [pii] AID - 10.1007/s00011-016-0961-y [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Inflamm Res. 2016 Oct;65(10):795-801. doi: 10.1007/s00011-016-0961-y. Epub 2016 Jul 6.