Reproductive System & Sexual Disorders: Current Research
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Department of Vocational and Technical, University of Inner Mongolia Agricultural, Hohhot, China

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• Research Article   
  Differentiation of Human Umbilical Cord-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Melanocyte, Osteogenic and Neural Cells In Vitro
  Author(s): Chunxiao Zhu*, Yuan Guo, Le Liu, Shichao Wang, Junwei Cao, Chunxia Liu, Huanmin Zhou and Yanru Zhang
  
  This study aimed to isolated and culture human Umbilial cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells (hUMSCs) in vitro by tissue block attachment to investigate their biological characteristics. The hUMSCs were cultured to passage 3, following which the induction experiments were performed in vitro and induced to melanocytes, neurons, and osteoblasts. The Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) results revealed that the expression of Nanog Homeobox (NANOG), Pou Class 5 Homeobox 1 (OCT4), 5'-nucleotidase ecto (CD73), CD44 molecule (CD44) in umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells were positive and population doubling time was 24.7 hrs. The differentiation properties of neurogenesis and osteogenic cells were confirmed by histological staining using toluidine blue and Alizarin red. Melanocytes were detected by RT-PCR, quantitative PCR (qPCR), and immunofluorescence staining. Af.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2161-038X.23.12.382

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