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Differentiation “in vitro” of primary and immortalized porcine mesenchymal stem cells into cardiomyocytes for cell transplantation

2005; Elsevier BV; Volume: 37; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.transproceed.2004.12.247

1873-2623

Isabel Moscoso, Ann Centeno, E. López, José-Ignacio Rodríguez-Barbosa, Isabel Santamarina, P. González Filgueira, María José Sánchez, Raúl Domínguez‐Perles, G. Peñuelas-Rivas, Nieves Doménech,

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Cell transplantation to regenerate injured tissues is a promising new treatment for patients suffering several diseases. Bone marrow contains a population of progenitor cells known as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which have the capability to colonize different tissues, replicate, and differentiate into multilineage cells. Our goal was the isolation, characterization, and immortalization of porcine MSCs (pMSCs) to study their potential differentiation "in vitro" into cardiomyocytes. pMSCs were obtained from the aspirated bone marrow of Large-White pigs. After 4 weeks in culture, adherent cells were phenotypically characterized by flow cytometry and immunochemistry by using monoclonal antibodies. Primary pMSCs were transfected with the plasmid pRNS-1 to obtain continuous growing cloned cell lines. Fresh pMSCs and immortalized cells were treated with 5-azacytidine to differentiate them into cardiomyocytes. Flow cytometry analysis of isolated pMSCs demonstrated the following phenotype, CD90pos, CD29pos, CD44pos, SLA-Ipos, CD106pos, CD46pos and CD45neg, CD14neg, CD31neg, and CD11bneg, similar to that described for human MSC. We derived several stable immortalized MSC cell lines. One of these, called pBMC-2, was chosen for further characterization. After "in vitro" stimulation of both primary or immortalized cells with 5-azacytidine, we obtained different percentages (30%–50%) of cells with cardiomyocyte characteristics, namely, positive for α-Actin and T-Troponin. Thus, primary or immortalized pMSCs derived from bone marrow and cultured were able to differentiate "ex vivo" into cardiac-like muscle cells. These elements may be potentials tools to improve cardiac function in a swine myocardial infarct model.