Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2014, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (45): 7246-7249.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2014.45.006

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Optimized medium accelerates differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

Li Qian1, Yang Jun2   

  1. 1Department of Neurology, the Fifth People’s Hospital of Chongqing, Chongqng   400062, China; 2Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
  • Online:2014-11-05 Published:2014-11-05
  • Contact: Yang Jun, Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
  • About author:Li Qian, Master, Department of Neurology, the Fifth People’s Hospital of Chongqing, Chongqng 400062, China
  • Supported by:

    the Science Foundation of Chongqing Health Bureau, No. 09-2-335; the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, No. CSTC, 2005BB5315

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Studies have found that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, under certain conditions, can be induced to differentiate into neurons and glial cells, which to some extent solves the problem of the source of seed cells. Induction methods currently used are different, and their efficiencies are not the same.

 
OBJECTIVE: To observe the effects of different antioxidants on differentiation of rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells into neuron-like cells in vitro.
METHODS: Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells from Wistar rats were divided into four groups: non-intervention group, β-mercaptoethanol group, retinoic acid group, β-mercaptoethanol+retinoic acid group. Changes in cell morphology and positive rate of neuron-specific enolase and microtubule-associated protein 2 were observed and detected at 5 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, 3 days, 5 days, 7 days, and 10 days after induction.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Except non-intervention group, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in the other three groups were gradually becoming spindle-shaped, and gave birth to many small protrusions that were interconnected into a network, showing neuron-like cell morphology. Immunocytochemical staining showed that the efficiency of the β-mercaptoethanol+retinoic acid group was the highest at 10 days after induction, and the positive rates of neuron-specific enolase and microtubule-associated protein 2 were 71.63% and 79.72%, respectively. The results show that β-mercaptoethanol can be combined with retinoic acid to accelerate the differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells into neuron-like cells.

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Key words: bone marrow, mesenchymal stem cells, cell differentiation, tretinoin, mercaptoethanol

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