Isolation of the multipotent MSC subpopulation from human gingival fibroblasts by culturing on chitosan membranes

Substrate-mediated reprogramming of human fibroblasts into neural crest stem-like cells and their applications in neural repair

“…S3). The neural crest phenotype markers of human gingival fibroblasts (believed to be originated from neural crest cells) [41] and FOXD3-transfected fibroblasts (by the chitosan-mediated transfection method) were also compared. Results revealed that the FOXD3-transfected fibroblasts expressed a higher expression level of neural crest genes than the gingival fibroblasts, especially for FOXD3 and SOX10 genes (Fig.…”

Nestin+ kidney resident mesenchymal stem cells for the treatment of acute kidney ischemia injury

“…Over the following decades, MSCs were also found in almost all postnatal organs and tissues, such as adipose tissue [33], heart [34], teeth [35], liver [36], umbilical cord [37] and so on. Importantly, several evidences demonstrated that there were MSCs also existing in kidney [9,38].…”

Rice bran extract affects differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells potency into osteogenic cells

“…Recent studies reported that MSCs readily aggregate and formed spheroids by culturing in particular substrates, such as micro-patterned substrates (Wang et al 2009), hydrophobic nano-pillars (Brammer et al 2011) and chitosan membranes (Hsu et al 2012), or by specialized methods, such as the hanging drop method (Bartosh et al 2010). Additionally, a recent study reported that N-cadherin is involved in the aggregation of MSCs (Hsu et al 2012), implying that RBE might induce aggregation of MSCs through expression of N-cadherin. The expression level of N-cadherin of the cells treated with RBE will be examined to check this possibility.…”