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Bone formation using human adipose tissue-derived stromal cells and a biodegradable scaffold.

Hattori H, Masuoka K, Sato M, Ishihara M, Asazuma T, Takase B, Kikuchi M, Nemoto K, Ishihara M

Division of Biomedical Engineering, Research Institute, National Defense Medical College, 3-2 Namiki, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359-8513, Japan.

Human adipose tissue, obtained by liposuction, was processed to obtain a fibroblast-like population of cells or adipose tissue-derived stromal cells (ATSCs). The ATSCs, as well as bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs), have the capacity for renewal and the potential to differentiate into multiple lineages of mesenchymal tissues. These cells are capable of forming bone when implanted ectopically in an appropriate scaffold. The aim of this study was to evaluate a beta-tricalcium phosphate (beta-TCP) as a scaffold and to compare the potential of osteogenic differentiation of ATSCs with BMSCs. Both cell types were loaded into beta-TCP disk and cultured in an osteogenic induction medium. Optimal osteogenic differentiation in ATSCs in vitro, as determined by secretion of osteocalcin, scanning electron microscope, and histology, were obtained in the culturing with the beta-TCP disk. Furthermore, bone formation in vivo was examined by using the ATSC- or BMSC-loaded scaffolds in nude mice. The present results show that ATSCs have a similar ability to differentiate into osteoblasts and to synthesize bone in beta-TCP disk as have BMSCs.

Published 19 December 2005 in J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater, 76(1): 230-9.
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