Abstract
Transplantation of bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) improves animal neurological functional recovery after stroke. But the mechanism remains unclear. As cell cycle machinery plays an important role in stroke, we investigated the dynamic changes of cell cycle elements in a rat model of middle cerebral artery occlusion. We found the cell cycle markers, cdk4 along with its activator cyclin D1, and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), increased after brain ischemia–reperfusion. Phosphorylation of the retinoblastoma protein (pRb, on ser-795), the cyclin D/cdk4 complex mutual target, was upregulated accordingly. However, intravenously administrated BMSCs facilitated cyclin D1, cdk4, and PCNA decrease in the ischemic cortex. Meanwhile, phospho-pRb (ser-795) was completely inhibited. On the contrary, endogenous cdk inhibitor p27 reduced before but enhanced after BMSCs treatment. These findings suggested BMSCs might modulate cell cycle progression in injured brain via downregulation of the cyclin D1/cdk4/pRb pathway as well as upregulation of p27 level. These results provide another way by which BMSCs may contribute to the recovery from stroke.
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