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Potential Role of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Ameliorating Hippocampal Structural Changes Induced by Aluminium Chloride in Adult Male Albino Rats

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background: The hippocampus plays a major role in memory. Aluminium chloride (AlCl3) is an Alzheimerogenic compound. Stem cells are promising. The work aimed to evaluate the stem cells in ameliorating the hippocampal changes induced by AlCl3. Material and methods: 24 adult male albino rats, aged two months, weighing 200-250 gm were randomly divided into group A (control group) that was divided into group A1 (6 rats) received no treatment and group A2 (6 rats) received 1 ml of normal saline intraperitoneally once daily for 60 days, group B (AlCl3-treated group) consisted of 6 rats and received 40 mg AlCl3/kg b.w. intraperitoneally once daily for 60 days, and group C (AlCl3+ MSCs-treated group) consisted of 6 rats and received 40 mg AlCl3/kg b.w. intraperitoneally once daily for 60 days then received an intraperitoneal injection of one million bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) and kept for 3 weeks without treatment. At the designated time, all rats were anaesthetized, sacrificed and the brains were extracted and processed for histological, immunohistochemical, and morphometric studies. Results: The hippocampus of group B showed apoptotic cells, vacuolated cytoplasm, eosinophilic patches, neurofibrillary tangles, and dilated congested blood vessels as well as statistically significant decreases in the granular layer and stratum pyramidale thickness, diameter of pyramidal cells' nuclei, and number of pyramidal cells, and an increase of the area % of GFAP, caspase-3 and ubiquitin immunoreactivity. Group C showed a noticeable regression of these changes. Conclusion: AlCl3 has an injurious impact on the hippocampus. It could be alleviated by BM-MSCs.

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10.21608/eajbsd.2024.361986

Keywords

Hippocampus, Aluminium chloride, BM-MSCs, albino rats

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Mohamed

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Mahmoud

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N.

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Human Anatomy and Embryology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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nabil44mm40@yahoo.com

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Egypt

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Dorreia

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Mohamed

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A.

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Human Anatomy and Embryology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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mdorrya@yahoo.com

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Egypt

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Esraa

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Mohamed

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K.

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Human Anatomy and Embryology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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Egypt

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Reneah

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Bushra

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R.

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Human Anatomy and Embryology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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reneah@aun.edu.eg

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Assiut

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0000-0003-1885-7873

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16

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1

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45189

Issue Date

2024-06-01

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2024-05-23

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2024-06-29

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195

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216

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2090-0775

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2090-0848

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Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, D. Histology & Histochemistry

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Potential Role of Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Ameliorating Hippocampal Structural Changes Induced by Aluminium Chloride in Adult Male Albino Rats

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24 Dec 2024