The use of laryngeal mucosa mesenchymal stem cells for the repair the vocal fold injury

Stem cell transplantation is a kind of attractive and new approach that complements traditional restorative or surgical techniques for the regeneration of injured or pathologically damaged laryngeal tissues. However, the best cell delivery strategy remains to be identified. The objective of this study was to establish a new strategy to the healing of injured vocal fold, using laryngeal mucosa mesenchymal stem cells differentiating into myofibroblasts or fibroblasts and improving the reconstruction microenvironment in the vocal fold injury as a new alternative as seed cells for laryngeal tissue engineering. After isolation and expansion, cells were identified as adherent mesenchymal cells with substantial proliferation potential in vitro, and were also characterized by flow cytometry. The differentiation potential of mesenchymal cells was maintained during proliferation as confirmed by culturing for adipogenesis, osteogenesis and chondrocyte. When LM-MSC was transplanted into the injured vocal fold, it has the potent differentiated into myofibroblasts and fibroblasts, which could regulate extracellular matrix, block collagen and the fibronectin rapid increased, inhibit the rapidly decrease of elastic fiber and HA, decrease the microenvironment inflammatory reaction, and prevent the formation of vocal fold scar.