Osteogenic differentiation capacity of human mesenchymal stromal cells in response to extracellular calcium with special regard to connexin 43.

Ann Anat

Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Small Animal Clinic c/o Institute of Veterinary-Anatomy, -Histology and -Embryology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Frankfurter Straße 98, Giessen, Germany.

Published: January 2017

The effects of extracellular calcium on osteogenic differentiation capacity of human bone-derived mesenchymal stromal cells with special regard to connexin 43 (cx43) have been investigated by means of cell culture experiments. Mesenchymal stromal cells isolated from human cancellous bone were cultured on tissue culture plates at different calcium ion (Ca) concentrations (1.8mmoll, 10mmoll, 20mmoll). Cell responses were evaluated by quantitative RT-PCR, immunofluorescence staining, and Lucifer Yellow fluorescence uptake experiments. It could be shown that increasing Ca concentrations correlate with increasing cx43 and bone sialoprotein mRNA levels as well as with enhanced cx43 fluorescence signaling and matrix mineralization of the cultures as shown by von Kossa staining. Hemichannel gating - assessed by Lucifer Yellow uptake - increases with increasing extracellular Ca concentrations suggesting that regulatory effects at the hemichannel level are calcium-dependent.

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