We investigated whether human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells (HUCBC), which contain hematopoietic and mesenchymal progenitor cells, can limit myocardial cytokine expression and inflammatory cell infiltration in acute myocardial infarction. We permanently ligated the left coronary artery of rats and injected into the myocardium either Isolyte or 4 x 10(6) HUCBC in Isolyte and measured myocardial cytokines with antibody arrays at 2, 6, 12, 24, and 72 hours after infarction. We then measured with flow cytometry myocardial macrophages, neutrophils and lymphocytes at 12, 24, and 72 hours after infarctions in rats treated with either intramyocardial Isolyte or 4 x 10(6) HUCBC. In the Isolyte-treated hearts, between 2 and 12 hours after myocardial infarction, tumor necrosis factor-alpha increased from 6.7 +/- 0.9% to 52.3 +/- 4.7%, monocyte chemoattract protein increased from 9.5 +/- 1.2% to 39.8 +/- 2.1%, fractalkine increased from 11 +/- 1.5% to 28.1 +/- 1.3%, ciliary neurotrophic factor increased from 12.1 +/- 0.02% to 25.9 +/- 1.1%, macrophage inflammatory protein increased from 10.3 +/- 1.5% to 23.9.0 +/- 1.4%, interferon-gamma increased from 8.7 +/- 0.4% to 26.0 +/- 1.6%, interleukin-1beta increased from 6.1 +/- 0.04% to 19.0 +/- 1.2%, and IL-4 increased from 5.9 +/- 0.03% to 15 +/- 1.5% (all p< 0.001 compared with controls). The concentrations of fractalkine remained significantly increased at 72 hours after acute infarction. In contrast, the myocardial concentrations of these cytokines did not significantly change in HUCBC treated hearts at 2, 6, 12, 24, or 72 hours after infarction. The percentage of neutrophils increased from 0.04 +/- 0.2%/50,000 heart cells in the controls to 5.3 +/- 1.2%/50,000 heart cells 12 hours after infarction in Isolyte-treated hearts but averaged only 1.3 +/- 0.7%/50,000 heart cells in HUCBC treated hearts (p < 0.02). Thereafter, the percentages of neutrophils rapidly decreased at 24 and at 72 hours after infarction and averaged 0.6 +/- 0.2%/50,000 heart cells at 72 hours after infarction in Isolyte-treated hearts in contrast to 0.2 +/- 0.1%/50,000 cells in HUCBC hearts (p < 0.05). Moreover, the percentages of neutrophils at 24 and 72 hours in HUCBC hearts were not significantly different from controls. At 24 hours post infarction, the percentage of CD3 and CD4 lymphocytes were 10.7 +/- 1.4% and 6.3 +/- 1.1%/50,000 cells in Isolyte hearts in comparison with only 4.9 +/- 0.8% and 2.9 +/- 0.5% in HUCBC hearts (p < 0.005 for Isolyte versus HUCBC). The percentage of CD11b macrophages was 2.8 +/- 0.3% in Isolyte hearts and 1.9 +/- 0.2% in HUCBC treated hearts (p < 0.05). At 72 hours after infarction, the percentage of CD3 and CD4 lymphocytes averaged 8.0 +/- 1.1% and 5.1 +/- 0.8%/50,000 heart cells in Isolyte hearts in comparison with only 4.1 +/- 0.5% and 2.3 +/- 0.4%/50,000 heart cells in the HUCBC treated infarctions (p < 0.005). Left ventricular infarct sizes in Isolyte-treated hearts at 72 hours post infarction averaged 15.7 +/- 1.4% of the left ventricular muscle area in cont...
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