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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 313, Issue 5, Pages 1008-1023Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2006.12.017
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multipotent spheres; murine bone marrow; mesenchymal stem cells; cardiomyocytes; neurons skeletal myoblasts; acute myocardial infarction
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Sphere formation has been utilized as a way to isolate multipotent stem/progenitor cells from various tissues. However, very few studies on bone marrow-derived spheres have been published and assessed their multipotentiality. In this study, multipotent marrow cell populations were isolated using a three-step method. First, after elimination of hematopoietic cells, murine marrow-derived adherent cells were cultured in plastic dishes until small cells gradually appeared and multiplied. Cells were then cultured under non-adherent conditions and formed spheres that were immunopositive for a neural precursor marker, nestin. RT-PCR analysis also revealed that the spheres were positive for nestin in addition to PPAR gamma, osf2, SOX9, and myoD, which are markers of precursors of adipocytic, osteoblastic, chondrocytic, and skeletal myeloblastic lineages, respectively. Finally, spheres were dissociated into single cells and expanded in adherent cultures. Under appropriate induction conditions, the sphere-derived cells acquired the phenotypic properties in vitro of neurons, skeletal myoblasts, and beating cardiomyocytes, as well as adipocytes, osteoblasts, and chondrocytes. Next, spherederived cells were transplanted into murine myocardial infarction models. One month later, they had become engrafted as cardiornyocytes, and cardiac catheterization showed significant functional improvements. Thus, sphere-derived cells represent a new approach to enhance the multi-differentiation potential of murine bone marrow. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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