Abstract
Adipose tissue-derived stromal cells (ADSCs) can differentiate into cardiomyocytes, which provide a source of new cardiomyocyte progenitors for tissue engineering. Here, we showed that ADSCs isolated from subcutaneous adipose tissues of mouse were largely negative for CD31, CD34, but positive for CD105. About 1.62% cells in these cells can spontaneously differentiate into cardiac-like cells (cells expressing cardiac marker proteins) when cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) supplemented only with penicillin, streptomycin, and 20% newborn bovine serum (NBS), expressed cardiac markers such as MF20, Connexin45, cMHC, cTnT, a-actin, Nkx2.5, and GATA4, and part of these cells (account for about 0.47% of inoculated cells) showed spontaneous contractions accompanied by transient Ca2+ activity in culture. In vitro, although over-expression of Nkx2.5 and/or cardiac α-actin increased the number of cardiac-like cells expressing cardiac-specific proteins, but while inhibited the contraction function of ADSCs-derived cardiomyocytes.
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We thank Prof. Zhiying Zhang (College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi, China) for his suggestions on experimental design. Contract Grant Sponsor: Key and Specific National Project for Creating New Biological Species Transgenically; Contract Grant Number: 2009ZX08009-157B.
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Zhao, L., Ju, D., Gao, Q. et al. Over-expression of Nkx2.5 and/or cardiac α-actin inhibit the contraction ability of ADSCs-derived cardiomyocytes. Mol Biol Rep 39, 2585–2595 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-011-1011-z
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