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謝清河博士

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Specialty:
1. Cardiac repair and regeneration
2. Microbiota and metabolism
3. Human induced pluripotent stem cells
4. Targeted delivery of nanomedicin

Education and Positions:

M.D. Kaohsiung Medical College

Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle (Bioengineering)

PDF Harvard Medical School/M.I.T.

 

Joint Professor, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and Kaohsiung Medical University

Affiliate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (Bioengineering)

Founder and President, Taiwan Circulation Research Society (TCRS)

Committee Member, Healthy Taiwan Promotion Committee, Presidential Office of Taiwan


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    Gut microbiota modulation in cardiac cell therapy with immunosuppression in a nonhuman primate ischemia/reperfusion model

    Dr. Hsieh, Patrick Ching-Ho
    npj Regenerative Medicine, Jan 15, 2025

    Gut microbiota affect transplantation outcomes; however, the influence of immunosuppression and cell therapy on the gut microbiota in cardiovascular care remains unexplored. We investigated gut microbiota dynamics in a nonhuman primate (NHP) cardiac ischemia/reperfusion model while under immunosuppression and receiving cell therapy with human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived endothelial cells (EC) and cardiomyocytes (CM). Both immunosuppression and EC/CM co-treatment increased gut microbiota alpha diversity. Immunosuppression promoted anaerobes, such as Faecalibacterium, Streptococcus, Anaerovibrio and Dialister, and altered amino acid metabolism and nucleosides/nucleotides biosynthesis in host plasma. EC + CM cotreatment favors Phascolarctobacterium, Fusicatenibacter, Erysipelotrichaceae UCG-006, Veillonella and Mailhella. Remarkably, gut microbiota of the EC/CM co-treatment group resembled that of the pre-injury group, and the NHPs exhibited a metabolic shift towards amino acid and fatty acid/lipid biosynthesis in plasma following cell therapy. The interplay between shift in microbial community and host homeostasis during treatment suggests gut microbiome modulation could improve cell therapy outcomes.