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Isolating Stem Cells from Soft Musculoskeletal Tissues

Published: July 05, 2010
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Summary

Isolating adult stem cells from musculoskeletal soft tissues based on the cell’s adherence speed to flask.

Abstract

Adult stem cells have long been discussed in regards to their application in regenerative medicine. Adult stem cells have generated a great deal of excitement for treating injured and diseased tissues due to their impressive capabilities to undergo multi-lineage cell differentiation and their self-renewal ability. Most importantly, these qualities have made them advantageous for use in autologous cell transplantation therapies. The current protocol will introduce the readers to the modified preplate technique where soft tissues of the musculoskeletal system, e.g. tendon and muscle, are 1st enzymatically dissociated and then placed in collagen coated flasks with medium. The supernatant, which is composed of medium and the remaining floating cells, is serially transferred daily to new flasks. The stem cells are the slowest to adhere to the flasks which is usually takes 5-7 days (serial transfers or preplates) . By using this technique, adult stem cells present in these tissues can be easily harvested through fairly non-invasive procedures.

Protocol

In general, the complete modified preplate procedure requires 1-2 days of preparation, 1 week of performing the technical procedure, 2-3 days of cell identification with immunocytochemistry, and an additional 2-3 weeks of stem cell population expansion. The equipment required for stem cell culture are similar to that of other cell culture systems which includes a bench-top centrifuge, CO2 incubator, Laminar flow tissue culture hood and an inverted microscope equipped with fluorescence and a digital camera. The…

Discussion

It has been recognized that some adult tissues contain multiple stem cells. Over the past few years of study, stem cells have been detected in the soft musculoskeletal tissues, including skeletal muscle and tendon. This current protocol details a procedure, known as the modified preplate technique, that has been successfully used in our laboratory to isolate adult stem cells from tendons and skeletal muscle. Using the modified preplate technique described above the cells can be divided into several populations based on t…

Declarações

The authors have nothing to disclose.

Acknowledgements

The authors are greatly appreciative of Ms. Haiying Pan and Mr. Ian Bellayr for their technical help on cell isolation for the current films and Mr. Kyle Holden and Mr. Jonathan Lucas for their help on slide editing. Many thanks to the following list of persons who have been involved with the development of the modified preplate techniques over the past years: Drs. Burhan Gharaibeh, BaoHong Cao, Deasy Bridget, Thomas R. Payne, Aiping Lu, Hairong Peng, Hideki Oshima, Bo Zeng, Xiaodong Mu, Kimimasa Tobita, Ron Jankowski, Makato Ikezawa. We are grateful for the technical assistance from James H. Cummins, Ryan Pruchnic, Joseph Feduska, Rebecca C. Schugar, Haiying Pan and Jessica Tebbets. The author also would like to acknowledge the financial support for this work from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Defense (DOD), the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, and the University of Pittsburgh.

Materials

Material Name Tipo Company Catalogue Number Comment
DMEM   Invitrogen #11995-073  
FBS   Invitrogen #10437-028  
Heat-inactivated horse serum   Invitrogen #26050-088  
Chick embryo extract   Accurate Chemical #CE650T-10  
100U ml penicillin/streptomycin   Invitrogen #15140-122  
Dulbecco’s PBS   Invitrogen #14190-250  
Hank’s Buffered Salt Solution   Invitrogen #24020-117  
Collagenase type XI 0.2%(wt/vol)   Sigma-Aldrich #C7657  
Dispase2.4U ml   Invitrogen #17105-041  
Trypsin-EDTA0.5%(wt/vol) (10x;5g liter trypsin (1:250)   Invitrogen #15400-054  
Collagen for coating flask : Type I collagen derived from calf skin 0.1 g liter   Sigma-Aldrich #C-9791  
DMSO   Sigma #D-2650  

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Li, Y., Pan, H., Huard, J. Isolating Stem Cells from Soft Musculoskeletal Tissues. J. Vis. Exp. (41), e2011, doi:10.3791/2011 (2010).

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