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A new mosaic pattern in glioma vascularization: exogenous endothelial progenitor cells integrating into the vessels containing tumor-derived endothelial cells

Xiao Chen, Jingqin Fang, Shunan Wang, Heng Liu, Xuesong Du, Jinhua Chen, Xue Li, Yizeng Yang, Bo Zhang and Weiguo Zhang _

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Oncotarget. 2014; 5:1955-1968. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.1885

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Abstract

Xiao Chen1,*, Jingqin Fang1,*, Shunan Wang1, Heng Liu1, Xuesong Du1, Jinhua Chen 1, Xue Li1, Yizeng Yang2, Bo Zhang3, Weiguo Zhang1,4

1 Department of Radiology, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400042, China

2 Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

3 Four and the State key laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400042, China

4 State key laboratory of Trauma, Burns and Combined Injury, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400042, China

* These two authors contributed equally to this work

Correspondence:

Weiguo Zhang, email:

Keywords: endothelial progenitor cells, C6 glioma cells, glioma, angiogenesis, magnetic resonance imaging

Received: January 20, 2014 Accepted: April 01, 2014 Published: April 02, 2014

Abstract

Emerging evidence suggests that glioma stem-like cells (GSCs) transdifferentiating into vascular endothelial cells (ECs) possibly contributes to tumor resistance to antiangiogenic therapy. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), showing active migration and incorporation into neovasculature of glioma, may be a good vehicle for delivering genes to target GSCs transdifferentiation. Here, we found a new mosaic pattern that exogenous EPCs integrated into the vessels containing the tumor-derived ECs in C6 glioma rat model. Further, we evaluated the effect of these homing EPCs on C6 glioma cells transdifferentiation. The transdifferentiation frequency of C6 glioma cells and the expressions of key factors on GSCs transdifferentiation, i.e. HIF-1α, Notch1, and Flk1 in gliomas with or without EPCs transplantation showed no significant difference. Additionally, magnetic resonance imaging could track the migration and incorporation of EPCs into glioma in vivo, which was confirmed by Prussian blue staining. The number of magnetically labeled EPCs estimated from T2 maps correlated well with direct measurements of labeled cell counts by flow cytometry. Taken together, our findings may provide a rational base for the future application of EPCs as a therapeutic and imaging probe to overcome antiangiogenic resistance for glioma and monitor the efficacy of this treatment.


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