Culturing pluripotent stem cells effectively requires substrates coated with feeder cell layers or cell-adhesive matrices. It is difficult to employ pluripotent stem cells as resources for regenerative medicine due to risks of culture system contamination by animal-derived factors, or the large costs associated with the use of adhesive matrices. To enable a coating-free culture system, we focused on UV/ozone surface modification and atmospheric pressure plasma treatment for polystyrene substrates, to improve adhesion and proliferation of pluripotent stem cells. In this study, to develop a feeder- and matrix coating-free culture system for embryonic stem cells (ESCs), mouse ESCs were cultured on polystyrene substrates that were surface-modified using UV/ozone-plasma combined treatment. mESCs could be successfully cultured under feeder-free conditions upon UV/ozone-plasma combined treatment of culture substrates, without any further chemical treatments, and showed similar proliferation rates to those of cells grown on the feeder cell layer or matrix-coated substrates.
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Cells Good (Xiamen) Inc. Huli, Xiamen Torch Development Zone, Fujian, China.
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are pluripotent stem cells with self-renewal. They play a critical role in cell therapy due to their powerful immunomodulatory and regenerative effects. Recent studies suggest that one of the key therapeutic mechanisms of MSCs seems to derive from their paracrine product, called extracellular vesicles (EVs).
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Bruce Rapport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (I.R.H., N.K., C.B., O.C.).
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January 2025
National Clinical Research Center for Metabolic Diseases (Shanghai), Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
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February 2024
Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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February 2024
iNOVA4Health, NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, NMS|FCM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua Camara Pestana, 6, Lisbon, Portugal.
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