Title:Recent Approaches to Isolating and Culturing Mouse Bone Marrowderived Mesenchymal Stromal Stem Cells
Volume: 16
Issue: 5
Author(s): Basem M. Abdallah*Hany M. Khattab
Affiliation:
- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa-31982,Saudi Arabia
Keywords:
Mesenchymal stem cells, BMSCs, cell culture, osteoblasts, cell expansion, haematopoietic progenitor cells.
Abstract: The isolation and culture of murine Bone Marrow-derived Mesenchymal stromal Stem Cells
(mBMSCs) have attracted great interest in terms of the pre-clinical applications of stem cells in tissue
engineering and regenerative medicine. In addition, culturing mBMSCs is important for studying the
molecular mechanisms of bone remodeling using relevant transgenic mice. Several factors have created
challenges in the isolation and high-yield expansion of homogenous mBMSCs; these factors include
low frequencies of Bone Marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal Stem Cells (BMSCs) in bone
marrow, variation among inbred mouse strains, contamination with Haematopoietic Progenitor Cells
(HPCs), the replicative senescence phenotype and cellular heterogeneity. In this review, we provide an
overview of nearly all protocols used for isolating and culturing mBMSCs with the aim of clarifying
the most important guidelines for culturing highly purified mBMSC populations retaining in vitro and
in vivo differentiation potential.