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ArticlePlastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open2016

Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Enhance Bacterial Clearance and Preserve Bioprosthetic Integrity in a Model of Mesh Infection.

Erik T Criman, Wendy E Kurata, Karen W Matsumoto, Harry T Aubin, Carmen E Campbell, Lisa M Pierce

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Article in Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Erik T CrimanDepartments of General Surgery and Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI.
Wendy E KurataDepartments of General Surgery and Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI.
Karen W MatsumotoDepartments of General Surgery and Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI.
Harry T AubinDepartments of General Surgery and Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI.
Carmen E CampbellDepartments of General Surgery and Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI.
Lisa M PierceDepartments of General Surgery and Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI.

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backgroundThe reported incidence of mesh infection in contaminated operative fields is as high as 30% regardless of the material used. Recently, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been shown to possess favorable immunomodulatory properties and improve tissue incorporation when seeded onto bioprosthetics. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether seeding noncrosslinked bovine pericardium (Veritas Collagen Matrix) with allogeneic bone marrow-derived MSCs improves infection resistance in vivo after inoculation with Escherichia coli (E. coli).

methodsRat bone marrow-derived MSCs at passage 3 were seeded onto bovine pericardium and cultured for 7 days before implantation. Additional rats (n = 24) were implanted subcutaneously with MSC-seeded or unseeded mesh and inoculated with 7 × 10(5) colony-forming units of E. coli or saline before wound closure (group 1, unseeded mesh/saline; group 2, unseeded mesh/E. coli; group 3, MSC-seeded mesh/E. coli; 8 rats per group). Meshes were explanted at 4 weeks and underwent microbiologic and histologic analyses.

resultsMSC-seeded meshes inoculated with E. coli demonstrated superior bacterial clearance and preservation of mesh integrity compared with E. coli-inoculated unseeded meshes (87.5% versus 0% clearance; p = 0.001). Complete mesh degradation concurrent with abscess formation was observed in 100% of rats in the unseeded/E. coli group, which is in contrast to 12.5% of rats in the MSC-seeded/E. coli group. Histologic evaluation determined that remodeling characteristics of E. coli-inoculated MSC-seeded meshes were similar to those of uninfected meshes 4 weeks after implantation.

conclusionsAugmenting a bioprosthetic material with stem cells seems to markedly enhance resistance to bacterial infection in vivo and preserve mesh integrity.

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