scholarly journals Isolation and Localization of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Human Palatine Tonsil by W5C5 (SUSD2)

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byung-Joo Lee ◽  
Dae-Woon Kang ◽  
Hee-Young Park ◽  
Ji-Sun Song ◽  
Ji-Min Kim ◽  
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Background/Aims: Although tonsil-mesenchymal stem cells (T-MSCs) have been studied as a new autologous or homologous source of MSCs, research on specific markers of MSCs and localization for purified T-MSC isolation has not yet been reported. This study investigates the expression of W5C5 (SUSD2) in tonsil stromal cells and the colony-forming ability and differentiation potential of W5C5+ cells to determine the usefulness of W5C5+ MSCs as a marker that can be used for the purification of T-MSCs. In addition, the location of W5C5+ cells expressed in the tonsil tissues is examined. Methods: T-MSCs were isolated from the tonsillar tissues of 12 patients undergoing tonsillectomy. The colony-forming ability, surface markers, proliferation potential, and differentiation capacities of purified W5C5+ MSCs, W5C5- MSCs, and unselected T-MSCs were evaluated. The location of the W5C5+ cells in the tonsillar tissues was also investigated by immunohistochemistry. Results: W5C5 was expressed in 2.5±0.4% of fresh human tonsil stromal cells. W5C5+ cells formed many colonies, but W5C5- cells did not form any colonies. The colony-forming number of W5C5+ cells (74.4 ± 9.8) was significantly higher than that of unselected tonsil stromal cells (23.6 ± 3.7). However, the differences in proliferation potential, surface marker expression, and differentiation potential between W5C5+ T-MSCs and unselected T-MSCs were not significant. W5C5+ cells were identified in the perivascular area around the blood vessels. Conclusion: W5C5+ T-MSCs possessed typical MSC properties with high colony-forming efficiency, and niches of W5C5+ T-MSCs were located in the perivascular area of tonsil tissues. These findings suggest that W5C5 is a useful single marker for the isolation of purified T-MSCs.

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-Sik Choi ◽  
Byung-Joo Lee ◽  
Hee-Young Park ◽  
Ji-Sun Song ◽  
Sung-Chan Shin ◽  
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Objectives: Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are efficacious in various cellular therapeutic applications and have been isolated from several tissues. Recent studies have reported that human tonsil tissue contains a new source of progenitor cells, potentially applicable for cell-based therapies. Information about the effects of donor age, long-term passage and cryopreservation are essential for clinical applications and cell-based therapies. Therefore, the authors investigated how the morphology, cell-surface markers, proliferation potential and differentiation capacity of tonsil-derived MSCs (T-MSCs) were affected by donor age, long-term passage, and cryopreservation. Materials and Methods: T-MSCs were isolated from tonsillar tissue of 20 patients undergoing tonsillectomy. Authors evaluated the effects of donor-age, long-term passage, and cryopreservation on the morphology, surface markers, proliferation potential and differentiation capacities of T-MSCs. Results: T-MSCs exhibited a fibroblast-like, spindle-shaped appearance. There were no significant morphological differences according to donor age, long-term passage or cryopreservation. T-MSCs isolated from donors of various ages were positive for markers CD90, CD44, and CD73, but negative for CD45, CD31, and HLA-DR. There were no significant differences in the expression of positive and negative surface markers as a function of donor age, long-term passage and cryopreservation. T-MSCs from different donor age groups showed similar proliferation potentials after passage 2. After long-term passage and cryopreservation, there were no significant morphological differences. Cryopreservation did not affect the proliferation potential of T-MSCs, but there was a significant decrease in the proliferation potential in long-term passage T-MSCs (passage 15). The effect of donor age, long-term passage and cryopreservation on the in vitro adipogenic, osteogenic, and chondrogenic differentiation potential of T-MSCs was not significant. Conclusion: The effect of donor age, long-term passage culture, and cryopreservation on T-MSC properties are negligible, except for the proliferation capacity of long-term cultured T-MSCs. Therefore, T-MSCs are considered to be promising MSCs that can be used as future alternative sources for autologous or allogenic MSCs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 603-615
Author(s):  
A-N Zeller ◽  
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M Selle ◽  
Z Gong ◽  
M Winkelmann ◽  
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Underlying pathomechanisms of osteoporosis are still not fully elucidated. Cell-based therapy approaches pose new possibilities to treat osteoporosis and its complications. The aim of this study was to quantify differences in human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs) between healthy donors and those suffering from clinically manifest osteoporosis. Cell samples of seven donors for each group were selected retrospectively from the hBMSC cell bank of the Trauma Department of Hannover Medical School. Cells were evaluated for their adipogenic, osteogenic and chondrogenic differentiation potential, for their proliferation potential and expression of surface antigens. Furthermore, a RT2 Osteoporosis Profiler PCR array, as well as quantitative real-time PCR were carried out to evaluate changes in gene expression. Cultivated hBMSCs from osteoporotic donors showed significantly lower cell surface expression of CD274 (4.98 % ± 2.38 %) than those from the control group (26.03 % ± 13.39 %; p = 0.007), as assessed by flow cytometry. In osteoporotic patients, genes involved in inhibition of the anabolic WNT signalling pathway and those associated with stimulation of bone resorption were significantly upregulated. Apart from these changes, no significant differences were found for the other cell surface antigens, adipogenic, osteogenic and chondrogenic differentiation ability as well as proliferation potential. These findings supported the theory of an influence of CD274 on the regulation of bone metabolism. CD274 might be a promising target for further investigations of the pathogenesis of osteoporosis and of cell-based therapies involving MSCs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Metka Voga ◽  
Valerija Kovač ◽  
Gregor Majdic

Remarkable immunomodulatory abilities of mesenchymal stem cells, also called multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells or medicinal signaling cells (MSCs), have entailed significant advances in veterinary regenerative medicine in recent years. Despite positive outcomes from MSC therapies in various diseases in dogs and cats, differences in MSC characteristics between small animal veterinary patients are not well-known. We performed a comparative study of cells' surface marker expression, viability, proliferation, and differentiation capacity of adipose-derived MSCs (ADMSCs) from dogs and domestic cats. The same growth media and methods were used to isolate, characterize, and culture canine and feline ADMSCs. Adipose tissue was collected from 11 dogs and 8 cats of both sexes. The expression of surface markers CD44, CD90, and CD34 was detected by flow cytometry. Viability at passage 3 was measured with the hemocytometer and compared to the viability measured by flow cytometry after 1 day of handling. The proliferation potential of MSCs was measured by calculating cell doubling and cell doubling time from second to eighth passage. Differentiation potential was determined at early and late passages by inducing cells toward adipogenic, osteogenic, and chondrogenic differentiation using commercial media. Our study shows that the percentage of CD44+CD90+ and CD34−/− cells is higher in cells from dogs than in cells from cats. The viability of cells measured by two different methods at passage 3 differed between the species, and finally, canine ADMSCs possess greater proliferation and differentiation potential in comparison to the feline ADMSCs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 2473011418S0030
Author(s):  
Seung Yeol Lee ◽  
Hyang Kim ◽  
Kyoung Min Lee

Category: Basic Sciences/Biologics Introduction/Purpose: Tendon repair has been a challenging issue for surgeons in treating. Although tissue engineering with mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have been used for tendon repair in both in vivo and in vitro, the stem cells are obtained through invasive procedures, and there is usually a lack of adequate numbers for clinical use. The purpose of this study was to compare the potential of tri-lineage differentiation and to investigate the potential of tenogenic differentiation of human tonsil derived MSCs (T-MSCs), bone marrow derived MSCs (BM-MSCs), and adipose tissue derived MSCs (AD-MSCs). Methods: Each tissue was obtained from 8 patients. After isolation of MSCs, flow cytometry analysis was used to characterize the phenotypes of the MSCs. Differentiation capacity to adipo-, osteo-, and chondrocytes were induced by culturing each MSCs for 3 weeks in commercially available media. Each MSCs was treated with 5ng/ml and 10ng/ml of TGF-ß3 with vehicle control. Results: Immunophenotypic surface marker analysis of BM-MSC, AD-MSC, and TMSCs revealed that these MSCs expressed a typical MSCs. mRNA expression levels of the markers for tri-lineage differentiation were significantly lower in TMSC than other MSCs. The tenogenic transcription factor, scleraxis, showed a statistically significant increase in all MSCs differentiation groups except for the 7th day TMSC differentiation group (Figure). Gene expression of tenascin-C, an ECM glycoprotein, was specifically expressed in the T-MSC differentiation group at 14 days (Figure). Comparing the ratio of collagen 1 to collagen 3 genes, the BM-MSC showed a decrease in the ratio on days 3 and 7 unlike AD-MSCs and TMSCs. Only TMSC showed a significant increase in the ratio compared with other MSCs on the 14th day. Conclusion: The tonsil-MSC has low fat, bone and cartilage differentiation potential and has excellent tendon-specific differentiation potential, thus being highly useful as a tendon-tailored cell therapy agent.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 2702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeyoung Park ◽  
Ji Yeon Kim ◽  
Seoha Myung ◽  
Namhee Jung ◽  
Yeonzi Choi ◽  
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Human tonsil-derived mesenchymal stem cells (T-MSCs) are newly identified MSCs and present typical features of MSCs, including having the differentiation capacity into the three germ layers and excellent proliferation capacity. They are easily sourced and are useful for stem cell therapy in various disease states. We previously reported that T-MSCs could be differentiated into skeletal myocytes and Schwann-like cells; therefore, they are a promising candidate for cell therapies for neuromuscular disease. Motor neurons (MNs), which regulate spontaneous behavior, are affected by a wide range of MN diseases (MNDs) for which there are no effective remedies. We investigated the differentiation potential of MN-like cells derived from T-MSCs (T-MSC-MNCs) for application to therapy of MNDs. After the process of MN differentiation, the expression of MN-related markers, including Islet 1, HB9/HLXB9 (HB9), and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), was increased when compared with undifferentiated T-MSCs. The secretion of acetylcholine to the conditioned medium was significantly increased after MN differentiation. We cocultured T-MSC-MNCs and human skeletal muscle cells, and confirmed the presence of the acetylcholine receptor clusters, which demonstrated the formation of neuromuscular junctions. The potential functional improvements afforded by these T-MSC-MNCs could be useful in the treatment of MNDs caused by genetic mutation, viral infection, or environmental problems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl R. Harrell ◽  
Marina Gazdic ◽  
Crissy Fellabaum ◽  
Nemanja Jovicic ◽  
Valentin Djonov ◽  
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Background: Amniotic Fluid Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (AF-MSCs) are adult, fibroblast- like, self-renewable, multipotent stem cells. During the last decade, the therapeutic potential of AF-MSCs, based on their huge differentiation capacity and immunomodulatory characteristics, has been extensively explored in animal models of degenerative and inflammatory diseases. Objective: In order to describe molecular mechanisms responsible for the therapeutic effects of AFMSCs, we summarized current knowledge about phenotype, differentiation potential and immunosuppressive properties of AF-MSCs. Methods: An extensive literature review was carried out in March 2018 across several databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Google Scholar), from 1990 to present. Keywords used in the selection were: “amniotic fluid derived mesenchymal stem cells”, “cell-therapy”, “degenerative diseases”, “inflammatory diseases”, “regeneration”, “immunosuppression”. Studies that emphasized molecular and cellular mechanisms responsible for AF-MSC-based therapy were analyzed in this review. Results: AF-MSCs have huge differentiation and immunosuppressive potential. AF-MSCs are capable of generating cells of mesodermal origin (chondrocytes, osteocytes and adipocytes), neural cells, hepatocytes, alveolar epithelial cells, insulin-producing cells, cardiomyocytes and germ cells. AF-MSCs, in juxtacrine or paracrine manner, regulate proliferation, activation and effector function of immune cells. Due to their huge differentiation capacity and immunosuppressive characteristic, transplantation of AFMSCs showed beneficent effects in animal models of degenerative and inflammatory diseases of nervous, respiratory, urogenital, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal system. Conclusion: Considering the fact that amniotic fluid is obtained through routine prenatal diagnosis, with minimal invasive procedure and without ethical concerns, AF-MSCs represents a valuable source for cell-based therapy of organ-specific or systemic degenerative and inflammatory diseases.


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