Latent Tri-lineage Potential of Human Menstrual Blood–Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Revealed by Specific In Vitro Culture Conditions

Human menstrual blood–derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MenSCs) have become not only an important source of stromal cells for cell therapy but also a cellular source for neurologic disorders in vitro modeling. By using culture protocols originally developed in our laboratory, we show that MenSCs ca...

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Veröffentlicht in:Molecular neurobiology 2021-10, Vol.58 (10), p.5194-5209
Hauptverfasser: Quintero-Espinosa, Diana, Soto-Mercado, Viviana, Quintero-Quinchia, Catherine, Mendivil-Perez, Miguel, Velez-Pardo, Carlos, Jimenez-Del-Rio, Marlene
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Zusammenfassung:Human menstrual blood–derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MenSCs) have become not only an important source of stromal cells for cell therapy but also a cellular source for neurologic disorders in vitro modeling. By using culture protocols originally developed in our laboratory, we show that MenSCs can be converted into floating neurospheres (NSs) using the Fast-N-Spheres medium for 24–72 h and can be transdifferentiated into functional dopaminergic-like (DALNs, ~ 26% TH + /DAT + flow cytometry) and cholinergic-like neurons (ChLNs, ~ 46% ChAT + /VAChT flow cytometry) which responded to dopamine- and acetylcholine-triggered neuronal Ca 2+ inward stimuli when cultured with the NeuroForsk and the Cholinergic-N-Run medium, respectively in a timely fashion (i.e., 4–7 days). Here, we also report a direct transdifferentiation method to induce MenSCs into functional astrocyte-like cells (ALCs) by incubation of MenSCs in commercial Gibco® Astrocyte medium in 7 days. The MSC-derived ALCs (~ 59% GFAP + /S100β +) were found to respond to glutamate-induced Ca 2+ inward stimuli. Altogether, these results show that MenSCs are a reliable source to obtain functional neurogenic cells to further investigate the neurobiology of neurologic disorders.
ISSN:0893-7648
1559-1182
DOI:10.1007/s12035-021-02442-6