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2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Comprehensive verification on life-saving mechanism of lethal dose radiation exposed individual by mixed umbilical cord blood transplantation

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 16K10338
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Radiation science
Research InstitutionHirosaki University

Principal Investigator

Ito Koichi  弘前大学, 保健学研究科, 教授 (90398579)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 中野 学  弘前大学, 保健学研究科, 助教 (10436016)
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Keywords臍帯血移植 / 放射線被ばく医療 / 造血幹細胞 / 組織適合性抗原
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a powerful treatment that can be used to reconstitute hematopoietic systems damaged in total body irradiation exposure accidents. As previous results, allogenic double-unit UCBC transplantation(dUCBC Tx)showed a high survival rate with self-hematopoietic recovery in all X-ray-irradiated recipients even in increased number of transplants. These results indicate the usefulness of allogeneic sources for dUCBC Tx for restoration of a patient’s hematopoietic system after a radiation exposure event. Furthermore, it was suggested that hematopoietic cytokines secreted by adherent cells contained in umbilical cord blood may induce the self-hematopoietic recovery in all recipients.

Free Research Field

免疫学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

東日本大震災に伴う東京電力・福島第一原子力発電所から核分裂生成物の環境への漏洩は放射能汚染や放射線被ばくという深刻な問題を生みだした。この事故を教訓に、放射線被ばく医療の確立が求められている。本研究課題は被ばく医療の中でも最悪の事態に対応する移植医療を確立するもので、その社会的意義は大きい。
また、学術的にも混合臍帯血移植が示す生着特性については未知な部分が多かったが、MHC不適合の異系混合臍帯血移植が放射線曝露個体の自己造血機能回復に適しているという新知見を得た。加えて、この自己造血機能回復効果が臍帯血中に含まれる接着性細胞によって誘導されてという新たな造血調節機構の発見に至った。

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Published: 2020-03-30  

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