Competency of IPSC-derived Retinas in MHC-mismatched Transplantation in Non-human Primates

Overview

Journal Stem Cell Reports

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2022 Oct 28

PMID 36306783

Authors

Hirofumi Uyama

Hung-Ya Tu

Sunao Sugita

Suguru Yamasaki

Yasuo Kurimoto

Take Matsuyama

Takashi Shiina

Takehito Watanabe

Masayo Takahashi

Michiko Mandai

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Abstract

Transplantation of embryonic/induced pluripotent stem cell-derived retina (ESC/iPSC-retina) restores host retinal ganglion cell light responses in end-stage retinal degeneration models with host-graft synapse formation. We studied the immunological features of iPSC-retina transplantation using major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-homozygote monkey iPSC-retinas in monkeys with laser-induced retinal degeneration in MHC-matched and -mismatched transplantation. MHC-mismatched transplantation without immune suppression showed no evident clinical signs of rejection and histologically showed graft maturation without lymphocytic infiltration, although immunological tests using peripheral blood monocytes suggested subclinical rejection in three of four MHC-mismatched monkeys. Although extensive photoreceptor rosette formation was observed on histology, evaluation of functional integration using mouse models such as mouse ESC-retina (C57BL/6) transplanted into rd1(C3H/HeJ, MHC-mismatched model) elicited light responses in the host retinal ganglion cells after transplantation but with less responsiveness than that in rd1-2J mice (C57BL/6, MHC-matched model). These results suggest the reasonable use of ESC/iPSC-retina in MHC-mismatched transplantation, albeit with caution.

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