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Bone marrow biopsies were taken from the iliac crest of 28 individual sheep from three different breeds, ranging in age from 4 months to 8 years and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) isolated using selection due to plastic adherence. Cells were cultured in medium that had been selected for its effect on observed MSC proliferation, until populations of greater than 50 million had been obtained from each biopsy. The identity of the isolated cell populations as progenitors of the mesenchymal lineage was verified by deriving both osteoblastic and chondrocytic phenotypes when cultured in osteogenic and chondrogenic medium supplements, respectively. The rate of cell proliferation for each marrow biopsy was measured at each passage and the number of initial stem cells in each sample estimated. There was no statistically significant correlation between the age of the sheep and MSC proliferative potential, or age and estimated initial MSC number. There was no apparent significant difference between proliferation rate and sheep breed and colonies established from frozen cells grew at similar rates to pre-frozen cells. Counter intuitively, there appeared to be a negatively correlated trend between proliferation rate and MSC concentration in the samples. It is concluded that no initial descriptive statistics of the marrow biopsies can assist in estimating the proliferative potential, and therefore the timing of future surgeries, of MSCs sampled for the purposes of tissue engineering.
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Rhodes, N.P., Srivastava, J.K., Smith, R.F. et al. Heterogeneity in proliferative potential of ovine mesenchymal stem cell colonies. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 15, 397–402 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JMSM.0000021109.21807.f0
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