[Study on multi-lineage potential of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells derived from green fluorescent protein transgenic mice].
OBJECTIVE
To study the multi-lineage potential of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from transgenic mice with green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene in vitro.


METHODS
A 6-week-old GFP transgenic mouse was executed by dislocation of cervical vertebra, and the marrow in tibia and thighbone was washed out with asepsis. The limited cell strains of MSCs derived from GFP transgenic mice (GFP-MSCs) were obtained with density gradient centrifugation. The passage 3 GFP-MSCs were induced to differentiate into osteoblast, adippcyte, neuron with solution of calcium induction medium, adipogenic medium and neural induction medium respectively. After being calcium-induced, the activity of alkaline phosphatase on GFP-MSCs was determined by micro-plate reader, and alizarin red staining was performed to test the formation of calcium concentration. The adipo-induced MSCs were detected with oil red O staining. Immunocytochemical staining was performed to detect the expression of NSE on neuron-induced MSCs.


RESULTS
The ALP activity of GFP-MSCs heightened gradually along with being calcium-induced, and alizarin red staining showed positive. Oil red O staining of adipo-induced cells and NSE immunocytochemical staining of neuron-induced cells demonstrated positive.


CONCLUSIONS
The limited cell strain of GFP-MSCs possesses multi-lineage potential, which can be used as an efficient tracking facility for studying the mechanism of multi-lineage potential on the MSCs.
Li
Zhi-Yong
ZY
Key Lab. of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Tian
Wei-Dong
WD
Liu
Lei
L
Chen
Xi-Zhe
XZ
Lin
Yun-Feng
YF
Yan
Zheng-Bin
ZB
Chen
Ling
L
Li
Sheng-Wei
SW
D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D009474:Neurons; D010006:Osteoblasts
D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase