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ArticleBiological procedures online2019

A simple and reliable protocol for long-term culture of murine bone marrow stromal (mesenchymal) stem cells that retained their in vitro and in vivo stemness in long-term culture.

Basem M Abdallah, Abdullah M Alzahrani, Ashraf M Abdel-Moneim, Nicholas Ditzel, Moustapha Kassem

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Article in Biological procedures online, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Basem M Abdallah1Biological Sciences Department, College of Science, King Faisal University, Hofuf, Al-Ahsa 31982 Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0324-8055
Abdullah M Alzahrani1Biological Sciences Department, College of Science, King Faisal University, Hofuf, Al-Ahsa 31982 Saudi Arabia.
Ashraf M Abdel-Moneim1Biological Sciences Department, College of Science, King Faisal University, Hofuf, Al-Ahsa 31982 Saudi Arabia.
Nicholas Ditzel2Endocrine Research (KMEB), Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital and University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Moustapha Kassem2Endocrine Research (KMEB), Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital and University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
King Faisal University · SAUniversity of Southern Denmark · DKUniversity of Copenhagen · DK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBone marrow derived stromal stem cells (BMSCs) are a clonogenic cell population that is characterized by self-renewal capacity and differentiation potential into osteoblasts, and other mesenchymal cell types. Mouse BMSCs (mBMSCs) are difficult to be cultured and propagated in vitro due to their replicative senescent phenotype, heterogeneity and high contamination with plastic adherent hematopoietic progenitors (HPCs). In this study, we described long-term culture of homogenous population of mBMSCs using simple and highly reproducible approach based on frequent subculturing (FS) at fixed split ratio in the presence of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF).

resultsCultured mBMSCs using this protocol (mBMSCs-FS) showed long-term survival in culture > 70 population doubling (PD) and retained their characteristic surface markers and differentiation capacity into osteoblast and adipocyte lineages. When compared to the clonal bone marrow-derived cell line ST2, mBMSCs-FS displayed more enhanced osteoblast differentiation potential and responsiveness to osteogenic factors including BMPs, IGF-1, PDGF, TGFβ1,3, FGF, cAMP, Wnt3a and VEGF. In addition, unlike ST2 cells, mBMSCs-FS maintained capacity to form ectopic bone and bone marrow stroma upon in vivo transplantation in immune-compromising mice, even at high PD levels. Interestingly, by applying the same FS + bFGF protocol, we succeeded to obtain long-term cultures of primary neonatal calvarial osteoprogenitor cells (OBs) that were cultured for more than 70 PD and maintained in vitro and in vivo osteoblast differentiation capacities.

conclusionsOur data provide a simple and reliable protocol for generating long-term cultures of mBMSCs and OBs with retained high in vitro and in vivo osteoblast differentiation capacities for use in pre-clinical and molecular mechanism studies.

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