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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82341-x
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- SAo Paulo Research Foundation (Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, FAPESP, Brazil) [2014/10152-5]
- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico, CNPq, Brazil) [442326/2014-9, 307829/2018-9]
- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Educational Personnel (Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior, CAPES, Brazil) [001]
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The study reveals the potential of amniotic fluid stem cells (AFSCs) combined with scaffolds in reconstructing articular cartilage, showing successful differentiation into chondrocytes. The experiments demonstrated that AFSCs cultured in both a micromass system and directly in a scaffold can differentiate into chondrocytes effectively.
Articular chondral lesions, caused either by trauma or chronic cartilage diseases such as osteoarthritis, present very low ability to self-regenerate. Thus, their current management is basically symptomatic, progressing very often to invasive procedures or even arthroplasties. The use of amniotic fluid stem cells (AFSCs), due to their multipotentiality and plasticity, associated with scaffolds, is a promising alternative for the reconstruction of articular cartilage. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the chondrogenic potential of AFSCs in a micromass system (high-density cell culture) under insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) stimuli, as well as to look at their potential to differentiate directly when cultured in a porous chitosan-xanthan (CX) scaffold. The experiments were performed with a CD117 positive cell population, with expression of markers (CD117, SSEA-4, Oct-4 and NANOG), selected from AFSCs, after immunomagnetic separation. The cells were cultured in both a micromass system and directly in the scaffold, in the presence of IGF-1. Differentiation to chondrocytes was confirmed by histology and by using immunohistochemistry. The construct cell-scaffold was also analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results demonstrated the chondrogenic potential of AFSCs cultivated directly in CX scaffolds and also in the micromass system. Such findings support and stimulate future studies using these constructs in osteoarthritic animal models.
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