TY - JOUR
T1 - Bladder wall transplantation-long-term survival of cells
T2 - Implications for bioengineering and clinical application
AU - Tanaka, Stacy T.
AU - Thangappan, Ravikumar
AU - Eandi, Jonathan A.
AU - Leung, Karen N.
AU - Kurzrock, Eric A
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Current bioengineered bladder wall substitutes include acellular scaffolds and grafts seeded with autologous cells. The transplanted cells on a seeded graft may regenerate and/or be replaced by cells of the patient's bladder. This may or may not be advantageous depending upon the underlying pathology. A theoretically perfect bioengineered graft would be intact bladder wall. To determine if such a graft is feasible and to study the cellular changes, we transplanted full-thickness bladder grafts from male inbred rats onto bladders of female syngeneic rats. Bladders were harvested at 1, 3, 6, 12, and 16 months after surgery and evaluated for histologic changes. Cell origin (male donor vs. female host) was determined with fluorescent in situ hybridization with unique probes for rat X and Y chromosomes. Urothelial hyperplasia, inflammation, and increased stromal thickness subsided down to control values by 6 months after surgery. At 16 months, graft muscle demonstrated persistence of male cells. On the other hand, graft urothelium was partially replaced by female host cells with a pattern suggestive of a hematogenous route rather than ingrowth from the host bladder. Bladder wall transplantation is feasible. The slow replacement of the transplanted urothelium and persistence of muscle may imply the same fate for engineered grafts.
AB - Current bioengineered bladder wall substitutes include acellular scaffolds and grafts seeded with autologous cells. The transplanted cells on a seeded graft may regenerate and/or be replaced by cells of the patient's bladder. This may or may not be advantageous depending upon the underlying pathology. A theoretically perfect bioengineered graft would be intact bladder wall. To determine if such a graft is feasible and to study the cellular changes, we transplanted full-thickness bladder grafts from male inbred rats onto bladders of female syngeneic rats. Bladders were harvested at 1, 3, 6, 12, and 16 months after surgery and evaluated for histologic changes. Cell origin (male donor vs. female host) was determined with fluorescent in situ hybridization with unique probes for rat X and Y chromosomes. Urothelial hyperplasia, inflammation, and increased stromal thickness subsided down to control values by 6 months after surgery. At 16 months, graft muscle demonstrated persistence of male cells. On the other hand, graft urothelium was partially replaced by female host cells with a pattern suggestive of a hematogenous route rather than ingrowth from the host bladder. Bladder wall transplantation is feasible. The slow replacement of the transplanted urothelium and persistence of muscle may imply the same fate for engineered grafts.
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U2 - 10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0557
DO - 10.1089/ten.tea.2009.0557
M3 - Article
C2 - 20109058
AN - SCOPUS:77953327432
VL - 16
SP - 2121
EP - 2127
JO - Tissue Engineering - Part A
JF - Tissue Engineering - Part A
SN - 1937-3341
IS - 6
ER -