title: FGF-2 inhibits osteogenesis in mouse adipose tissue-derived stromal cells and sustains their proliferative and osteogenic potential state.
abstract: In addition to adult bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells, more recently, a second large stromal compartment found in adipose tissue has received attention and is believed to contain multipotent cells. In vitro, adipose tissue-derived stromal cells (ADS) can differentiate down osteogenic, chondrogenic, myogenic, adipose, and even neuronal pathways. In this article, we explore the effect of fibroblast growth factors 2 (FGF-2) on ADS cells. Our results demonstrated that FGF-2 inhibits osteogenesis in ADS cells. The osteogenic inhibitory effects is dose-dependent and reversible, thus suggesting that the lack of osteogenesis observed in ADS cells exposed to FGF-2 is not due to a negative selection triggered by this factor on a subpopulation of osteoblast progenitors. Furthermore, either overexpression of FGF-2, or continuous FGF-2 treatment sustain the proliferative and osteogenic potential state of ADS cells. Therefore, FGF-2 appears to be a positive regulator of osteoprogenitor cells and a negative regulator of osteoblast differentiation in ADS cells. These FGF-2 functional characteristics may assist with cell selection and enrichment for the purpose of bone tissue engineering.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5148, USA.
authors.forename: Natalina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Quarto
authors.forename: Michael T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Longaker
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D016222:Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 / Q000502:physiology*; D006131:Growth Inhibitors / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D010012:Osteogenesis / Q000502:physiology*; D017154:Stromal Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D023822:Tissue Engineering
chemical_list: D006131:Growth Inhibitors; D016222:Fibroblast Growth Factor 2