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Intravenous injection of phagocytes transfected ex vivo with FGF4 DNA/biodegradable gelatin complex promotes angiogenesis in a rat myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury model

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Conventional gene therapies still present difficulties due to poor tissue-targeting, invasiveness of delivery, method, or the use of viral vectors. To establish the feasibility of using non-virally ex vivo transfected phagocytes to promote angiogenesis in ischemic myocardium, gene-transfection into isolated phagocytes was performed by culture with positively charged gelatin impregnated with plasmid DNA. A high rate of gene transfection was achieved in rat macrophages and human monocytes, but not in mouse fibroblasts. The efficiency was 68 ± 11% in rat macrophages and 78 ± 8% in human monocytes. Intravenously injected phagocytes accumulated predominantly in ischemic tissue (13 ± 8%) and spleen (84 ± 6%), but negligibly in other organs in rodents. The efficiency of accumulation in the target ischemic tissue reached more than 86% on direct local tissue injection. In a rat model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion, intravenous injection of fibroblast growth factor 4 (FGF4)-gene-transfected macrophages significantly increased regional blood flow in the ischemic myocardium (78 ± 7.1 % in terms of flow ratio of ischemic/non-ischemic myocardium) compared with intravenous administration of saline (36 ± 11%) or nontransfected macrophages (42 ± 12 %), or intramuscular administration of naked DNA encoding FGF4 (75 ± 18 %). Enhanced angiogenesis in the ischemic tissue we confirmed histologically. Similarly, intravenous injection of FGF4-gene-transfected monocytes enhanced regional blood flow in an ischemic hindlimb model in mice (93 ± 22 %), being superior to the three other treatments described above (38 ± 12, 39 ± 15, and 55 ± 12%, respectively).

Phagocytes transfected ex vivo with FGF4 DNA/gelatin promoted angiogenesis. This approach might have potential for non-viral angiogenic gene therapy.

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Abbreviations

ANOVA:

= analysis of variance

FGF4:

= fibroblast growth factor-4

GFP:

= green fluorescent protein

pI:

= isoelectric point

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  1. Depts. of Physiology, Internal Medicine and Center for Regenerative Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, 259-1193, Japan

    N. Fukuyama, H. Fujikura, M. Hagihara, K. Ando & H. Nakazawa

  2. Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

    E. Tanaka

  3. Research Center for Biomedical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Y. Tabata

  4. Genetics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

    H. Sakamoto

  5. National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Japan

    H. Mori

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Fukuyama, N., Tanaka, E., Tabata, Y. et al. Intravenous injection of phagocytes transfected ex vivo with FGF4 DNA/biodegradable gelatin complex promotes angiogenesis in a rat myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury model. Basic Res Cardiol 102, 209–216 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00395-006-0629-9

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