Low oxygen tension maintains multipotency, whereas normoxia increases differentiation of mouse bone marrow stromal cells.

ABSTRACT: Optimization of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) culture conditions is of great importance for their more successful application in regenerative medicine. O(2) regulates various aspects of cellular biology and, in vivo, MSC are exposed to different O(2) concentrations spanning from very low tension in the bone marrow niche, to higher amounts in wounds. In our present work, we isolated mouse bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC) and showed that they contained a population meeting requirements for MSC definition. In order to establish the effect of low O(2) on cellular properties, we examined BSMC cultured under hypoxic (3% O(2)) conditions. Our results demonstrate that 3% O(2) augmented proliferation of BMSC, as well as the formation of colonies in the colony-forming unit assay (CFU-A), the percenta

SUBMITTER: Berniakovich I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3565369 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature