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Age-related effects on the potency of human adipose-derived stem cells: creation and evaluation of superlots and implications for musculoskeletal tissue engineering applications.

Bodle JC., Teeter SD., Hluck BH., Hardin JW., Bernacki SH., Loboa EG.

Laboratory Study, published in Tissue Eng Part C Methods (2014) — summary generated from the PubMed abstract.

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Study type
Laboratory Study
Journal
Tissue Eng Part C Methods (2014)
Country
United States
Reported sample size
—
Source database
PubMed
PMID
24628423
PMCID
PMC4241956
DOI
10.1089/ten.TEC.2013.0683
Citations
37

Abstract (original English)

Human adipose-derived stem cells (hASC) are now a prevalent source of adult stem cells for studies in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. However, researchers utilizing hASC in their investigations often encounter high levels of donor-to-donor variability in hASC differentiation potential. Because of this, conducting studies with this primary cell type can require extensive resources to generate statistically significant data. We present a method to generate pooled donor cell populations, termed "superlots," containing cell populations derived from four to five age-clustered donors. The goal of generating these superlots was to 1) increase experimental throughput, 2) to utilize assay resources more efficiently, and 3) to begin to establish global hASC differentiation behaviors that may be associated with donor age. With our superlot approach, we have validated that pooled donor cell populations exhibit proliferative activity representing the combined behavior of each individual donor cell line. Further, the superlots also exhibit differentiation levels roughly approximating the average combined differentiation levels of each individual donor cell line. We established that high donor-to-donor variability exists between the pre-, peri-, and postmenopausal age groupings and that proliferation and differentiation characteristics can vary widely, independent of age. Intere

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