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Stem Cells Int. 2012;2012:326813. doi: 10.1155/2012/326813. Epub 2012 Mar 07.

Minced umbilical cord fragments as a source of cells for orthopaedic tissue engineering: an in vitro study.

Stem cells international

A Marmotti, S Mattia, M Bruzzone, S Buttiglieri, A Risso, D E Bonasia, D Blonna, F Castoldi, R Rossi, C Zanini, E Ercole, E Defabiani, C Tarella, G M Peretti

Affiliations

  1. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Turin, Mauriziano Hospital, Largo Turati 62, 10128 Turin, Italy.

PMID: 22550503 PMCID: PMC3328184 DOI: 10.1155/2012/326813

Abstract

A promising approach for musculoskeletal repair and regeneration is mesenchymal-stem-cell- (MSC-)based tissue engineering. The aim of the study was to apply a simple protocol based on mincing the umbilical cord (UC), without removing any blood vessels or using any enzymatic digestion, to rapidly obtain an adequate number of multipotent UC-MSCs. We obtained, at passage 1 (P1), a mean value of 4, 2 × 10(6) cells (SD 0,4) from each UC. At immunophenotypic characterization, cells were positive for CD73, CD90, CD105, CD44, CD29, and HLA-I and negative for CD34 and HLA-class II, with a subpopulation negative for both HLA-I and HLA-II. Newborn origin and multilineage potential toward bone, fat, cartilage, and muscle was demonstrated. Telomere length was similar to that of bone-marrow (BM) MSCs from young donors. The results suggest that simply collecting UC-MSCs at P1 from minced umbilical cord fragments allows to achieve a valuable population of cells suitable for orthopaedic tissue engineering.

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