Efeitos da terapia com células tronco mesenquimais em afecções do sistema nervoso de cães

Abstract

O trauma raquimedular, a discopatia e a cinomose são distúrbios que se caracterizam por sinais neurológicos, os quais muitas vezes são de difícil tratamento. Nesse contexto, a terapia celular busca minimizar os sinais e as sequelas neurológicas adquiridas pelas afecções, com objetivo de melhorar a qualidade de vida dos pacientes. Desta forma, o objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o resultado do tratamento com células tronco mesenquimais de tecido adiposo nas afecções de trauma rquimedular, sequela de cinomose e discopatia de cães atendidos no serviço de Acupuntura e Dor Crônica da FMVZ-UNESP. Foram utilizados 62 animais, sendo 14 com trauma raquimedular, 17 com discopatias e 31 com sequela de cinomose, todos submetidos ao exame neurológico prévio seguido de terapia celular. A comparação entre os graus antes e após o tratamento com CTMs alogênicas de tecido adiposo para cada tipo de lesão foi realizada utilizando o teste de Mann-Whitney para medidas repetidas. Foi observada diferença entre as medianas referentes ao grau de gravidade das enfermidades tratadas. Nos casos de sequela de cinomose 43.3% (13/30) dos animais tratados apresentaram diminuição dos sinais neurológicos com melhora da graduação da doença. Nos animais com trauma raquimedulares a melhora foi observada em 50% (7/14), e 66.7% dos animais (12/18) que apresentavam discopatias tiveram uma melhora de quadro clínico. Concluiu-se que as aplicações de células tronco mesenquimais em animais com distúrbios neurológicos da lesão da medula espinhal, doença do disco intervertebral e sequelas de cinomorfose diminuíram o grau de lesão das demais afecções.

Spinal cord injury, intervertebral disc disease and distemper are disorders characterized by neurological signs, which are often difficult to treat. In this context, cell therapy seeks to minimize the signs and the neurological sequelae acquired by injuries, aiming to improve the patients' quality of life. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the results of treatment with mesenchymal stem cells of adipose tissue in conditions of spinal cord injury, distemper sequelae and intervertebral disc disease of dogs treated at the Acupuncture and Chronic Pain Service of FMVZ-UNESP. Sixty-two animals were used, 14 of them with spinal cord injury, 18 with intervertebral disc disease and 30 with distempersequelae, all submitted to previous neurological examination followed by cell therapy. A comparison between grades before and after treatment with allogenic adipose tissue MSCs for each type of injury was performed using the Mann-Whitney test for repeated measurements. A difference was observed between to the injury degree of the diseases treated. In the case of distemper, 43.3% (13/30) of the treated animals showed decreased neurological signs with a reduction in the injury degree. In animals with spinal cord injury was observed decrease in 50% (7/14) of injury degree, and 66.7% of the intervertebral disc disease animals (12/18) had a reduced injury degree. It can be concluded that mesenchymal stem cells in animals with nervous system injuries, it covers a medical clinic of second-hand products with neurological disorders of spindle trauma, discopathy and sequelae of distemper. It was concluded that the MSCs applications in animals with neurological disorders of spinal cord injury, intervertebral disc disease and distemper sequelae decreased the injury degree of the diseases treated.