Neuronal-like cell differentiation of non-adherent BMSCs

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Contact: Meng Zhao eic@nrren.org 86-138-049-98773 Neural Regeneration Research

It is widely believed that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells are highly adherent fibroblastic cells, defined as colony-forming unit-fibroblasts. Nevertheless, a few reports have shown that the non-adherent bone marrow cells can give rise to colony-forming unit-fibroblasts in vitro, and possess a certain differentiation potential. According to a recent study from Dr. Xiaoming Ben and colleagues, non-adherent bone marrow cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells from C57BL/6J mice cultured using the "pour-off" method developed colony-forming unit-fibroblasts, and could be expanded by supple-mentation with epidermal growth factor. The non-adherent bone marrow cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells exposed to basic fibroblast growth factor/epidermal growth factor/nerve growth factor expressed the neuron specific markers, neurofilament-200 and NeuN, in vitro. Non-adherent bone marrow cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells from -galactosidase transgenic mice were also transplanted into focal ischemic brain (right corpus striatum) of C57BL/6J mice. Cells co-labeled with both -galactosidase and NeuN were seen by double immunohistochemical staining. These findings, published in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 8, No. 22, 2013), suggest that the non-adherent bone marrow cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells could differentiate into neuronal-like cells in vitro and in vivo, which can be used as seed cells for the treatment of nervous system diseases.

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Article: " Neuronal-like cell differentiation of non-adherent bone marrow cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells " by Yuxin Wu1, Jinghan Zhang2, Xiaoming Ben3 (1 Department of Neurosurgery, Nanjing Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu Province, China; 2 Department of Newborn Medicine, Nanjing Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu Province, China; 3 Department of Newborn Medicine, Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200040, China)

Wu YX, Zhang JH, Ben XM. Neuronal-like cell differentiation of non-adherent bone marrow cell-derived mesenchymal stem cells. Neural Regen Res. 2013;8(22):2078-2085.

Contact: Meng Zhao eic@nrren.org 86-138-049-98773 Neural Regeneration Research

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