Journal
ASIAN-AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCES
Volume 28, Issue 8, Pages 1171-1177Publisher
ASIAN-AUSTRALASIAN ASSOC ANIMAL PRODUCTION SOC
DOI: 10.5713/ajas.14.0848
Keywords
Pig; Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cell; Isolation; Culture; Characterization
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20130693, BK20140688]
- Youth Science and Technology Innovation Fund of Nanjing Agricultural College [KT2013020]
- 973 Program [2014CB138502]
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The objective of this study was to establish the optimum protocol for the isolation and culture of porcine muscle satellite cells. Mononuclear muscle satellite cells are a kind of adult stem cell, which is located between the basal lamina and sarcolemma of muscle fibers and is the primary source of myogenic precursor cells in postnatal muscle. Muscle satellite cells are a useful model to investigate the mechanisms of muscle growth and development. Although the isolation and culture protocols of muscle satellite cells in some species (e.g. mouse) have been established successfully, the culture system for porcine muscle satellite cells is very limited. In this study, we optimized the isolation procedure of porcine muscle satellite cells and elaborated the isolation and culture process in detail. Furthermore, we characterized the porcine muscle satellite cells using the immunofluorecence. Our study provides a reference for the isolation of porcine muscle satellite cells and will be useful for studying the molecular mechanisms in these cells.
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