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Chondrogenic differentiation of amniotic fluid-derived stem cells

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For regenerating damaged articular cartilage, it is necessary to identify an appropriate cell source that is easily accessible, can be expanded to large numbers, and has chondrogenic potential. Amniotic fluid-derived stem (AFS) cells have recently been isolated from human and rodent amniotic fluid and shown to be highly proliferative and broadly pluripotent. The purpose of this study was to investigate the chondrogenic potential of human AFS cells in pellet and alginate hydrogel cultures. Human AFS cells were expanded in various media conditions, and cultured for three weeks with growth factor supplementation. There was increased production of sulfated glycosaminoglycan (sGAG) and type II collagen in response to transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) supplementation, with TGF-β1 producing greater increases than TGF-β3. Modification of expansion media supplements and addition of insulin-like growth factor-1 during pellet culture further increased sGAG/DNA over TGF-β1 supplementation alone. Compared to bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells, the AFS cells produced less cartilaginous matrix after three weeks of TGF-β1 supplementation in pellet culture. Even so, this study demonstrates that AFS cells have the potential to differentiate along the chondrogenic lineage, thus establishing the feasibility of using these cells for cartilage repair applications.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr. Christopher Gemmiti for his help with biochemical and histological analyses. This work was supported by the Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues (NSF grant EEC-9731643). AP supported by an NIH IRACDA training Grant 2K12GM000680-06.

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  1. Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Yash M. Kolambkar

  2. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA

    Yash M. Kolambkar & Alexandra Peister

  3. Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Alexandra Peister & Robert E. Guldberg

  4. Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157-1094, USA

    Shay Soker & Anthony Atala

  5. George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 315 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Robert E. Guldberg

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Kolambkar, Y.M., Peister, A., Soker, S. et al. Chondrogenic differentiation of amniotic fluid-derived stem cells. J Mol Hist 38, 405–413 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10735-007-9118-1

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