THE USE OF MICROENCAPSULATED HEPATOCYTES TRANSPLANTATION REDUCES MORTALITY AND LIVER ALTERATIONS IN SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI INFECTED HAMSTERS | ||||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||||
| Article 24, Volume 44, Issue 1, April 2014, Page 229-242 PDF (567.57 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2014.90752 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| SOAD A. SHERIF1; MONA N. MOHARIB1; NAGLAA M. EL-LAKKANY2; OLFAT A. HAMMAM3; FATMA H. SALMAN1; MOHAMED M. EL-NAGGAR4 | ||||
| 1Department of Biochemistry, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Imbaba, P.O. Box 30, Giza 12411, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Department of Pharmacology, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Imbaba, P.O. Box 30, Giza 12411, Egypt. | ||||
| 3Department of Pathology, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Imbaba, P.O. Box 30, Giza 12411, Egypt. | ||||
| 4Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Hepatocyte transplantation is an attractive therapeutic modality for liver disease as an alternative for orthotropic liver transplantation. The goal of this work was to study the adequacy of intrasplenic hepatocyte transplantation (HCTx) in fresh and microencapsulated forms, in a hamster model of liver fibrosis by Schistosoma mansoni infected hamsters were divided into 6 groups; untreated for 11 weeks (GI) and for 15 weeks (GII), treated with praziquantel (PZQ) 7 weeks PI, and killed 4 weeks (GIII) and 8 weeks (GIV) post-treatment. Treated with PZQ 7 weeks PI, and then treated orally with immunosuppressive drug "cyclosporine (4 weeks post PZQ treatment), 24 hr. before interasplenic injection with fresh hepatocytes (V). Treated with PZQ 7 weeks PI, and then injected interasplenically (4 weeks post-treatment) with microencapsulated hepatocytes (GVI). GI & GIII were killed 11 weeks PI for assessment the anti-schistosomal efficacy of PZQ. The other four groups were killed 15 weeks PI for investigation of liver and spleen histology, serum liver enzymes and hepatic oxidative markers before and after HCTx. Freshly isolated hepatocytes with a mean viability 92.971.2% were used for microencapsulation and transplantation. Histological study showed the presence of transplanted hepatocytes in spleen of recipient. PZQ accelerated healing of hepatic granulomatous lesions as evidenced parasitologically by the increase in the percentage of dead eggs and histologically showing more granuloma circumscription with more ova degeneration and less inflammatory cells. The 25-day survival rates in GII, GIV, GV& GVI were 5/15 (33.3%), 8/15 (53.3%), 10/15 (66.7%) and 9/15 (60%) respectively. In addition, there were significantly better outcomes in serum biochemical indexes such as ALT, AST, -GT, ALP, and hepatic SOD and MDA in the fresh and microencapsulated groups than in PZQ-treated group, without great differences between the microencapsulated and the fresh transplanted groups. Liver pathological staining supported these findings. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| HCTx; Schistosoma mansoni; PZQ; microencapsulation; liver enzymes; oxidative stress; lipid peroxidation | ||||
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