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Fetal rat hepatocytes: isolation, characterization, and transplantation in the Nagase analbuminemic rats. 1997

H Lilja, and N Arkadopoulos, and P Blanc, and S Eguchi, and Y Middleton, and S Meurling, and A A Demetriou, and J Rozga
Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Burns and Allen Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA.

BACKGROUND In contrast to adult hepatocytes, fetal hepatocytes (FH) are thought to be highly proliferative, less immunogenic, and resistant to cryopreservation and ischemic injury. These qualities could enhance FH engraftment, proliferation, and gene transfer requiring active DNA synthesis. METHODS Rat FH were obtained using the nonperfusion collagenase/DNase digestion method. Free and cultured cells were studied using electron microscopy, fluorescence-activated cell sorting, and Northern analysis using alpha-fetoprotein and albumin as markers of hepatocyte lineage. DNA synthetic activity was measured in quiescent and mitogen-stimulated fetal and adult hepatocytes by [3H]thymidine incorporation. Susceptibility of cultured FH to retrovirally mediated gene transfer was studied using an amphotropic retroviral vector carrying the Escherichia coli lac-Z gene. Nagase analbuminemic rats were used as recipients to study the effects of intraportal FH transplantation. Analysis of serum albumin was carried out by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. RESULTS In fetal liver, 87+/-2% of the cells showed morphological and molecular features of hepatocytes. DNA synthetic activity in nonstimulated cultured FH was 10 times greater than the maximal hepatocyte growth factor-driven response in adult rat hepatocytes. A total of 5-15% FH stained positive for X-gal; results of transduction in adult hepatocyte cultures were negative. In Nagase analbuminemic rat recipients, FH produced significant amounts of albumin only when a hepatic regenerative stimulus was applied. Immunohistochemistry confirmed presence of albumin-positive hepatocytes. CONCLUSIONS Fetal rat liver from the late gestation period is highly enriched with hepatocyte progenitors. They are highly proliferative and susceptible to retroviral transduction and can engraft and function in the adult rat liver if transplanted under a hepatic regenerative stimulus.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007150 Immunohistochemistry Histochemical localization of immunoreactive substances using labeled antibodies as reagents. Immunocytochemistry,Immunogold Techniques,Immunogold-Silver Techniques,Immunohistocytochemistry,Immunolabeling Techniques,Immunogold Technics,Immunogold-Silver Technics,Immunolabeling Technics,Immunogold Silver Technics,Immunogold Silver Techniques,Immunogold Technic,Immunogold Technique,Immunogold-Silver Technic,Immunogold-Silver Technique,Immunolabeling Technic,Immunolabeling Technique,Technic, Immunogold,Technic, Immunogold-Silver,Technic, Immunolabeling,Technics, Immunogold,Technics, Immunogold-Silver,Technics, Immunolabeling,Technique, Immunogold,Technique, Immunogold-Silver,Technique, Immunolabeling,Techniques, Immunogold,Techniques, Immunogold-Silver,Techniques, Immunolabeling
D008099 Liver A large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates that is responsible for detoxification, metabolism, synthesis and storage of various substances. Livers
D008297 Male Males
D011247 Pregnancy The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH. Gestation,Pregnancies
D002478 Cells, Cultured Cells propagated in vitro in special media conducive to their growth. Cultured cells are used to study developmental, morphologic, metabolic, physiologic, and genetic processes, among others. Cultured Cells,Cell, Cultured,Cultured Cell
D004247 DNA A deoxyribonucleotide polymer that is the primary genetic material of all cells. Eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms normally contain DNA in a double-stranded state, yet several important biological processes transiently involve single-stranded regions. DNA, which consists of a polysugar-phosphate backbone possessing projections of purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (thymine and cytosine), forms a double helix that is held together by hydrogen bonds between these purines and pyrimidines (adenine to thymine and guanine to cytosine). DNA, Double-Stranded,Deoxyribonucleic Acid,ds-DNA,DNA, Double Stranded,Double-Stranded DNA,ds DNA
D005260 Female Females
D005333 Fetus The unborn young of a viviparous mammal, in the postembryonic period, after the major structures have been outlined. In humans, the unborn young from the end of the eighth week after CONCEPTION until BIRTH, as distinguished from the earlier EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN. Fetal Structures,Fetal Tissue,Fetuses,Mummified Fetus,Retained Fetus,Fetal Structure,Fetal Tissues,Fetus, Mummified,Fetus, Retained,Structure, Fetal,Structures, Fetal,Tissue, Fetal,Tissues, Fetal
D000118 Acetylglucosaminidase A beta-N-Acetylhexosaminidase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of terminal, non-reducing 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-glucose residues in chitobiose and higher analogs as well as in glycoproteins. Has been used widely in structural studies on bacterial cell walls and in the study of diseases such as MUCOLIPIDOSIS and various inflammatory disorders of muscle and connective tissue. N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase,Chitobiase,N,N-Diacetylchitobiase,N-Ac-beta-Glucosaminidase,NAGase,beta-D-Acetamido-2-Deoxyglucosidase,beta-D-N-acetylglucosaminidase,beta-N-Acetylglucosaminidase,N Ac beta Glucosaminidase,N Acetyl beta D glucosaminidase,N,N Diacetylchitobiase,beta D Acetamido 2 Deoxyglucosidase,beta D N acetylglucosaminidase,beta N Acetylglucosaminidase
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia

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