title: Capability of human mesenchymal cells isolated from different sources to differentiation into tissues of mesodermal origin.
abstract: We compared the capacity of cultured human skin fibroblasts, human umbilical cord cells obtained after normal delivery on gestation week 38-40, and mesenchymal bone marrow stem cells to differentiation into adipocytes, osteoblasts, and chondrocytes. Our findings suggest that mesenchymal stem cells are multipotent cells and can differentiate into adipose, cartilaginous, and bone tissue. Umbilical cord fibroblast-like cells can differentiate into adipocytes and chondrocytes, and only few cells in this culture can differentiate into osteoblasts. Skin fibroblasts differentiate only into adipocytes.
authors.affiliation: Russian State Medical University, Moscow.
authors.forename: Yu G
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Suzdal'tseva
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Burunova
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Vakhrushev
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Yarygin
authors.forename: K N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Yarygin
mesh_terms: D017667:Adipocytes / Q000166:cytology; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D019902:Chondrocytes / Q000166:cytology; D005260:Female; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D008648:Mesoderm / Q000166:cytology*; D039902:Multipotent Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D010006:Osteoblasts / Q000166:cytology; D012867:Skin / Q000166:cytology*; D014470:Umbilical Cord / Q000166:cytology*