title: [Ultrafiltration membrane extract mixture from Angelica sinensis and Hedysarum polybotrys induced transdifferentiation of BMSCs in mice: an experimental research].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe and evaluate the effect of transdifferentiation of bone marrow derived stroma cells (BMSCs) into nerve cells by ultrafiltration membrane extract mixture from Angelica sinensis and Hedysarum polybotrys.
  
  
  METHODS
  The BMSCs in vitro cultured after treated by ultrafiltration membrane extract mixture from Angelica sinensis and Hedysarum polybotrys were divided into 5 groups, i.e., the blank group, the low dose group (6 g/L mixture), the high dose group (12 g/L mixture), the combination group (3 g/L mixture + 0.5 mmol/Lbeta-mercaptoethanol), and the positive control group (13-mercaptoethanol). The effects of transdifferentiation of nerve cells were observed using toluidine blue staining in each group. The differences of 5 specific neuroproteins, i.e. neuron-specific enolase (NSE), nestin, neurofilament protein (NFP), microtubule associated protein 2 (MAP2), and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) were detected using immunohistochemical technique and immunofluorescent technique respectively. The changes of the cell cycle were detected using flow cytometry (FCM).
  
  
  RESULTS
  After induction BMSCs changed morphologically. The morphological features were weaker in the high and low dose groups than in the combination group and the positive group. Except the blank group, the aforesaid 5 proteins expressed positively in the rest groups. Their expression levels were highest in the positive control group (P <0.05), followed by the combination group (P <0.05). As for the cell proliferation rate detected by FCM, it was the lowest in the positive control group, followed by high dose group, low dose group, and then the combination group (all P <0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The ultrafiltration membrane extract mixture from Angelica sinensis and Hedysarum polybotrys could effectively induce the transdifferentiation of BMSCs into nerve cells. Its inducing capacities were weaker in the positive control group, but it showed marked proliferation effects on differentiated cells. Therefore, the mixture might be a more ideal medication pathway for effectively inducing BMSCs' transdifferentiation into nerve cells, which might have higher proliferation and be used for clinical research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Etiological Biology and Immunology, Basic Faculty, Gansu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou 730000, China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.forename: Yi-Long
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Yong-Qi
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Qin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Su
mesh_terms: D029971:Angelica sinensis / Q000737:chemistry; D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000737:chemistry; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects*; D051379:Mice; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology*; D014462:Ultrafiltration
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal