期刊
NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH
卷 10, 期 8, 页码 1312-1316出版社
WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.162768
关键词
nerve regeneration; Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells; mesenchymal stem cells; neurons; motor neurons; alginate; 3D scaffold; neural regeneration
资金
- Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran [5959]
Alginate scaffold has been considered as an appropriate biomaterial for promoting the differentiation of embryonic stem cells toward neuronal cell lineage. We hypothesized that alginate scaffold is suitable for culturing Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells (WJMSCs) and can promote the differentiation of WJMSCs into neuron-like cells. In this study, we cultured WJMSCs in a three-dimensional scaffold fabricated by 0.25% alginate and 50 mM CaCl2 in the presence of neurogenic medium containing 10 mu M retinoic acid and 20 ng/mL basic fibroblast growth factor. These cells were also cultured in conventional two-dimensional culture condition in the presence of neurogenic medium as controls. After 10 days, immunofluorescence staining was performed for detecting beta-tubulin (marker for WJMSCs-differentiated neuron) and CD271 (motor neuron marker). beta-Tubulin and CD271 expression levels were significantly greater in the WJMSCs cultured in the three-dimensional alginate scaffold than in the conventional two-dimensional culture condition. These findings suggest that three-dimensional alginate scaffold cell culture system can induce neuronal differentiation of WJMSCs effectively.
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