Cells captured from spatium intermusculare by porous material exhibit the characteristics of stem cells

Histochem Cell Biol. 2008 Oct;130(4):741-8. doi: 10.1007/s00418-008-0446-3. Epub 2008 Jun 5.

Abstract

Most of the current methods to capture stem cells are very complicated. Our new discovery of acquiring adult stem cells by implanting three dimension (3-D) porous material into the spatium intermusculare of mice hind limbs would bring hope to achieve autologous stem cells transplantation. We discovered that a great number of cells migrated into the 3-D porous material implanted in vivo. Furthermore, the migrating cells exhibited stem cell properties (CD34(+), Sca-1(+), GFAP(+), alphafetoprotein(+)) and were hematogeous (CD45(+)) and CD105(+). The ability of migrating cells to undergo differentiation into hematopoietic lineages was tested with methylcellulose medium. These findings demonstrate that the cells captured from spatium intermusculare by implanting 3-D porous material exhibit the characteristics of stem cells.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Endoglin
  • Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
  • Hindlimb / cytology*
  • Hindlimb / metabolism
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / analysis
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Muscle, Skeletal / cytology*
  • Muscle, Skeletal / metabolism
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins / analysis
  • Porosity
  • Stem Cells / cytology*
  • Stem Cells / metabolism
  • alpha-Fetoproteins / analysis

Substances

  • Endoglin
  • Eng protein, mouse
  • Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins
  • alpha-Fetoproteins
  • glial fibrillary astrocytic protein, mouse