The Treasury of Wharton's Jelly

© 2021. The Author(s)..

BACKGROUND: Postnatal umbilical cord tissue contains valuable mesenchymal progenitor cells of various differentiation stages. While mesenchymal stem cells are plastic-adherent and tend to differentiate into myofibroblastic phenotypes, some round cells detach, float above the adherent cells, and build up cell aggregates, or form spheroids spontaneously. Very small luminescent cells are always involved as single cells or within collective forms and resemble the common well-known very small embryonic-like cells (VSELs). In this study, we investigated these VSELs-like cells in terms of their pluripotency phenotype and tri-lineage differentiation potential.

METHODS: VSELs-like cells were isolated from cell-culture supernatants by a process that combines filtering, up concentration, and centrifugation. To determine their pluripotency character, we measured the expression of Nanog, Sox-2, Oct-4, SSEA-1, CXCR4, SSEA-4 on gene and protein level. In addition, the cultured cells derived from UC tissue were examined regarding their potential to differentiate into three germ layers.

RESULT: The VSELs-like cells express all of the pluripotency-associated markers we investigated and are able to differentiate into meso- endo- and ectodermal precursor cells.

CONCLUSIONS: Umbilical cord tissue hosts highly potent VSELs-like stem cells.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

Stem cell reviews and reports - 18(2022), 5 vom: 13. Juni, Seite 1627-1638

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guenther, Rebecca [VerfasserIn]
Dreschers, Stephan [VerfasserIn]
Maassen, Jessika [VerfasserIn]
Reibert, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Skazik-Voogt, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Gutermuth, Angela [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Multipotency
Pluripotency
Regenerative medicine
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Trilineage differentiation.
Umbilical cord tissue
Very small embryonic like stem cells
Wharton's jelly

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Date Completed 22.06.2022

Date Revised 19.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s12015-021-10217-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM331880229