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ArticleNeural regeneration research2015

Differentiation of Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells into neurons in alginate scaffold.

Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini, Attiyeh Vasaghi, Newsha Nakhlparvar, Reza Roshanravan, Tahereh Talaei-Khozani, Zahra Razi

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Article in Neural regeneration research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Seyed Mojtaba HosseiniStudent Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran ; Cell and Molecular Medicine Student Research Group, Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran ; Stem Cell Laboratory, Department of Anatomy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Attiyeh VasaghiStudent Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran ; Cell and Molecular Medicine Student Research Group, Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Newsha NakhlparvarStudent Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran ; Cell and Molecular Medicine Student Research Group, Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Reza RoshanravanColorectal Research Center, Department of Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Science, Shiraz, Iran.
Tahereh Talaei-KhozaniTissue Engineering Laboratory, Department of Tissue Engineering, School of Advanced Medical Science and Technology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran ; Laboratory for Stem Cell Research, Department of Anatomy, Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Zahra RaziCell and Molecular Medicine Student Research Group, Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran ; Department of Medical Physics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · IRShiraz University · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alginate scaffold has been considered as an appropriate biomaterial for promoting the differentiation of embryonic stem cells toward neuronal cell lineage. We hypothesized that alginate scaffold is suitable for culturing Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells (WJMSCs) and can promote the differentiation of WJMSCs into neuron-like cells. In this study, we cultured WJMSCs in a three-dimensional scaffold fabricated by 0.25% alginate and 50 mM CaCl2 in the presence of neurogenic medium containing 10 μM retinoic acid and 20 ng/mL basic fibroblast growth factor. These cells were also cultured in conventional two-dimensional culture condition in the presence of neurogenic medium as controls. After 10 days, immunofluorescence staining was performed for detecting β-tubulin (marker for WJMSCs-differentiated neuron) and CD271 (motor neuron marker). β-Tubulin and CD271 expression levels were significantly greater in the WJMSCs cultured in the three-dimensional alginate scaffold than in the conventional two-dimensional culture condition. These findings suggest that three-dimensional alginate scaffold cell culture system can induce neuronal differentiation of WJMSCs effectively.

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3D scaffoldalginatemesenchymal stem cellsmotor neuronsnerve regenerationneural regenerationneuronsWharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells

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PMID26487861
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