Saverio La Francesca, Anthony E Ting, Jason Sakamoto, Jessica Rhudy, Nicholas R Bonenfant, Zachary D Borg, Fernanda F Cruz, Meagan Goodwin, Nicholas A Lehman, Jennifer M Taggart, Robert Deans, Daniel J Weiss
BACKGROUND: Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) is a significant cause of early morbidity and mortality following lung transplantation. Improved organ preservation techniques will decrease ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) contributing to PGD. Adult bone marrow-derived adherent stem cells, including mesenchymal stromal (stem) cells (MSCs) and multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs), have potent anti-inflammatory actions, and we thus postulated that intratracheal MAPC administration during donor lung processing would decrease IRI...
2014: Transplantation Research