NOTCH-Mediated Maintenance and Expansion of Human Bone Marrow Stromal/Stem Cells: A Technology Designed for Orthopedic Regenerative Medicine.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
Human bone marrow-derived stromal/stem cells (BMSCs) have great therapeutic potential for treating skeletal disease and facilitating skeletal repair, although maintaining their multipotency and expanding these cells ex vivo have proven difficult. Because most stem cell-based applications to skeletal regeneration and repair in the clinic would require large numbers of functional BMSCs, recent research has focused on methods for the appropriate selection, expansion, and maintenance of BMSC populations during long-term culture. We describe here a novel biological method that entails selection of human BMSCs based on NOTCH2 expression and activation of the NOTCH signaling pathway in cultured BMSCs via a tissue culture plate coated with recombinant human JAGGED1 (JAG1) ligand. We demonstrate that transient JAG1-mediated NOTCH signaling promotes human BMSC maintenance and expansion while increasing their skeletogenic differentiation capacity, both ex vivo and in vivo. This study is the first of its kind to describe a NOTCH-mediated methodology for the maintenance and expansion of human BMSCs and will serve as a platform for future clinical or translational studies aimed at skeletal regeneration and repair.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Dong, Y; Long, T; Wang, C; Mirando, AJ; Chen, J; O'Keefe, RJ; Hilton, MJ
Published Date
- December 2014
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 3 / 12
Start / End Page
- 1456 - 1466
PubMed ID
- 25368376
Pubmed Central ID
- PMC4250205
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 2157-6564
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.5966/sctm.2014-0034
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England