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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022

Histological Profiling of the Human Umbilical Cord: A Potential Alternative Cell Source in Tissue Engineering.

Cristina Blanco-Elices, Jesús Chato-Astrain, Alberto González-González, David Sánchez-Porras, Víctor Carriel, Ricardo Fernández-Valadés, María Del Carmen Sánchez-Quevedo, Miguel Alaminos, Ingrid Garzón

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cristina Blanco-ElicesDoctoral Programme in Biomedicine, University of Granada, E18071 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0992-0113
Jesús Chato-AstrainTissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, University of Granada, E18016 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2378-2696
Alberto González-GonzálezDepartment of Molecular Biology (IDIVAL), Faculty of Medicine, University of Cantabria, E39011 Santander, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2336-8284
David Sánchez-PorrasTissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, University of Granada, E18016 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4755-7741
Víctor CarrielTissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, University of Granada, E18016 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8114-5644
Ricardo Fernández-ValadésTissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, University of Granada, E18016 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8087-4311
María Del Carmen Sánchez-QuevedoTissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, University of Granada, E18016 Granada, Spain.
Miguel AlaminosTissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, University of Granada, E18016 Granada, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4876-2672
Ingrid GarzónTissue Engineering Group, Department of Histology, University of Granada, E18016 Granada, Spain.
Universidad de Granada · ESUniversidad de Cantabria · ES

Funding

Instituto de Salud Carlos III FIS PI21/0980, FIS PI18/0331, FIS PI18/0332, FIS PI20/0317, FIS PI20/318 and ICI19-00024Regional Government of Andalusia PE-0395-2019, B-CTS-450-UGR20, A-CTS-498-UGR18 and P18-RT-5059
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The embryonic development of the human umbilical cord (hUC) is complex, and different regions can be identified in this structure. The aim of this work is to characterize the hUC at in situ and ex vivo levels to stablish their potential use in vascular regeneration. Human umbilical cords were obtained and histologically prepared for in the situ analysis of four hUC regions (intervascular-IV, perivascular-PV, subaminoblastic-SAM, and Wharton's jelly-WH), and primary cell cultures of mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSC) isolated from each region were obtained. The results confirmed the heterogeneity of the hUC, with the IV and PV zones tending to show the higher in situ expression of several components of the extracellular matrix (collagens, proteoglycans, and glycosaminoglycans), vimentin, and MSC markers (especially CD73), although isolation and ex vivo culture resulted in a homogeneous cell profile. Three vascular markers were positive in situ, especially vWF, followed by CD34 and CD31, and isolation and culture revealed that the region associated with the highest expression of vascular markers was IV, followed by PV. These results confirm the heterogeneity of the hUC and the need for selecting cells from specific regions of the hUC for particular applications in tissue engineering.

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MSCumbilical cordvascular differentiation

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PMID35455764
PMCPMC9028794
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