EPCs are a type of stem cell with the potential to differentiate from vascular endothelial cells. They can differentiate into mature endothelial cells that participate in the process of vascular neovascularization and repair. At CD BioGlyco, we provide professional GlycoCLICK™-based Labeling Service, including our efficient EPC labeling service. Our purpose in providing EPC labeling service is to enable their non-invasive imaging and tracking and help research observing their migration and localization in vivo in real time, to understand their distribution in ischemic tissues, as well as to assess their therapeutic efficacy and biological mechanisms.
Technology: Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT)
Journal: Biomaterials
IF: 15.304
Published: 2021
Results: This article investigates the therapeutic efficacy of EPCs labeled by bioorthogonal click chemistry and metabolic glycoengineering in a model of therapeutic lower limb ischemia and predicts the therapeutic efficacy of the cells by non-invasive FMT imaging methods. This labeling strategy offers the advantages of greater safety, long-term tracking ability, and efficiency. Non-invasive tracking of stem cells is achieved by generating unnatural azide groups on the stem cell surface through Ac4ManNAz pretreatment and using a fluorescent dye-coupled clickable imaging probe to specifically bind to the azide groups on the surface of human embryonic stem cells-derived EPCs (hEPCs) via bioorthogonal click chemistry. This does not cause cytotoxicity and functionally perturbs the renal tubule formation, oxygen consumption, and paracrine effects of hEPC. This labeling and tracking strategy provides potential clues for predicting the efficacy of stem cell therapy for ischemic diseases.
Fig.1 Schematic for predicting how well bioorthogonally labeled hEPCs work in a hind limb ischemia model using non-invasive FMT imaging. (Lim, et al., 2021)
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