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Can Magnetic Targeting of Magnetically Labeled Circulating Cells Optimize Intramyocardial Cell Retention?

Chaudeurge A, Wilhelm C, Chen-Tournoux A, Farahmand P, Bellamy V, Autret G, Ménager C, Hagège A, Larghéro J, Gazeau F, Clément O, Menasché P

Aims: Therapeutic intracavitary stem cell infusion currently suffers from poor myocardial homing. We examined whether cardiac cell retention could be enhanced by magnetic targeting of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) loaded with iron oxide nanoparticles.Methods and Results: EPCs were magnetically labeled with citrate-coated iron oxide nanoparticles. Cell proliferation, migration and CXCR4 chemokine receptor expression were assessed in different labeling conditions and no adverse effects of the magnetic label were observed. The magnetophoretic mobility of labeled EPCs was determined in vitro, with the same magnet as that subsequently used in vivo. Coronary artery occlusion was induced for 30 minutes in 36 rats (31 survivors), followed by 20 minutes of reperfusion. The rats were randomized to receive, during brief aortic cross-clamping, direct intraventricular injection of culture medium (n=7) or magnetically labeled EPCs (n=24), with (n=14) or without (n=10) subcutaneous insertion of a magnet over the chest cavity (n=14). The hearts were explanted 24 h later and engrafted cells were visualized by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart at 1.5 T. Their abundance in the myocardium was also analyzed semi-quantitatively by immunofluorescence, and quantitatively by real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Although differences in cell retention between groups failed to be statistically significant using RT-PCR quantification, due to the variability of the animal model, immunostaining showed that the average number of engrafted EPCs was significantly ten times higher with than without magnetic targeting. There was thus a consistent trend favoring the magnet-treated hearts, thereby suggesting magnetic targeting as a potentially new mean of enhancing myocardial homing of intravascularly delivered stem cells.Conclusion: Magnetic targeting has the potential to enhance myocardial retention of intravascularly delivered endothelial progenitor cells.

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