Chronic laminitis is a disabling condition that affects the laminar corium of the horse’s hooves. Commonly, it develops as a collateral injury of numerous primary systemic diseases. It is believed that the critical physiopathological event that renders a hoof laminitic is the loss of mesenchymal stem cells. This loss greatly impairs the ability of the laminar corium to regenerate. Although previous work provides credibility to this notion, there remain unsettled issues that must be addressed before accepting it as a well-founded fact. Here, it was reexamined the central tenet of the physiopathological model of laminitis by infusing allogeneic bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ABM-MSCs), through the digital palmar vein, into the hooves of horses afflicted by chronic laminitis. Horses were clinically monitored during 6 mo by evaluating them monthly using the lameness-modified Obel-Glasgow’s scale and hooves thermography. Venograms and lamellar biopsies were taken at the beginning and at the end of the study period to gathered evidence on vascular remodeling and laminar corium regeneration. The results showed that ABM-MSCs infusion promotes vascular remodeling and laminar corium regeneration, further supporting that the loss of stem cells is the critical event leading to chronic laminitis. This work also demonstrated that the infusion of ABM-MSCs is safe since the treated horses did not develop local or systemic, negative clinical manifestations attuned with rejection reactions, at least during the 6-mo period they were follow up and under the therapeutic scheme proposed.
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