Thèse soutenue

Approche de thérapie cellulaire pour maladies du sytème hématopoietique en utilisant des cellules souches foetales isolées à partir de liquide amniotique

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Auteur / Autrice : Andrea Ditadi
Direction : Marina Cavazzana-Calvo
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Biologie moléculaire et cellulaire du développement
Date : Soutenance en 2008
Etablissement(s) : Paris 5

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In the present study we investigated the possibility of differentiating AFS cells towards the hematopoietic pathway. We achieved a reproducible erythroid differentiation by culturing hAFSCs as embryoid bodies (EBs) under serum free conditions with haematopoietic cytokines. Furthermore, human erythrocytes (human CD235a) were isolated from bone marrow and spleen of sublethally irradiated NOD/SCID mice at 3 months after the injection of hAFSCs. We compared the hematopoietic potential of mAFKL and mAmKL to Fetal Liver KL, the main source of fetal HSC. When cultivated immediatly after their sorting, freshly isolated murine AFKL and AmKL cells gave rise to all the different hematopoietic lineages both in vitro and in vivo. Experiments with freshly isolated hAFKL gave good results in the in vitro assays being able to give rise to erythroid, myeloid and lymphoid lineages, but failed to reconstitute the hematopoietic system in irradiated NOD/SCID mice, probably due to the poor amount of cells injected. This is the first report demonstrating that AFKL and AmKL do have an haematopoietic potential, supporting the idea that AF and Am may be an excellent source for therapeutic application.