A novel method of dynamic culture surface expansion improves mesenchymal stem cell proliferation and phenotype.
Repeated passaging in conventional cell culture reduces pluripotency and proliferation capacity of human mesenchymal stem cells (MSC). We introduce an innovative cell culture method whereby the culture surface is dynamically enlarged during cell proliferation. This approach maintains constantly high cell density while preventing contact inhibition of growth. A highly elastic culture surface was enlarged in steps of 5% over the course of a 20-day culture period to 800% of the initial surface area. Nine weeks of dynamic expansion culture produced 10-fold more MSC compared with conventional culture, with one-third the number of trypsin passages. After 9 weeks, MSC continued to proliferate under dynamic expansion but ceased to grow in conventional culture. Dynamic expansion culture fully retained the multipotent character of MSC, which could be induced to differentiate into adipogenic, chondrogenic, osteogenic, and myogenic lineages. Development of an undesired fibrogenic myofibroblast phenotype was suppressed. Hence, our novel method can rapidly provide the high number of autologous, multipotent, and nonfibrogenic MSC needed for successful regenerative medicine.
Majd
Hicham
H
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Wipff
Pierre-Jean
PJ
Buscemi
Lara
L
Bueno
Manuel
M
Vonwil
Daniel
D
Quinn
Thomas M
TM
Hinz
Boris
B
D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D019070:Cell Lineage; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D006801:Humans; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D010641:Phenotype; D012826:Silicone Elastomers
D012826:Silicone Elastomers