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A protocol for isolation and culture of mesenchymal stem cells from mouse bone marrow

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We explain a protocol for straightforward isolation and culture of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from mouse bone marrow (BM) to supply researchers with a method that can be applied in cell biology and tissue engineering with minimal requirements. Our protocol is mainly on the basis of the frequent medium change in primary culture and diminishing the trypsinization time. Mouse mesenchymal stem cells are generally isolated from an aspirate of BM harvested from the tibia and femoral marrow compartments, then cultured in a medium with Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) and fetal bovine serum (FBS) for 3 h in a 37 °C–5% CO2 incubator. Nonadherent cells are removed carefully after 3 h and fresh medium is replaced. When primary cultures become almost confluent, the culture is treated with 0.5 ml of 0.25% trypsin containing 0.02% ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid for 2 min at room temperature (25 °C). A purified population of MSCs can be obtained 3 weeks after the initiation of culture.

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Figure 1: Morphological features of mMSCs.
Figure 2: Cell surface markers and differentiation capacity of mouse mesenchymal stem cells (mMSCs).

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This study was supported by Iran Stem Cell Technology Institute.

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  1. Masoud Soleimani and Samad Nadri: Both the authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medical Science, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box, 14115-111, Tehran, Iran

    Masoud Soleimani

  2. Department of Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, Stem Cell Technology Institute, P.O. Box 14155-3174, Tehran, Iran

    Samad Nadri

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University (MC), Tehran, 19395-4719, Iran

    Samad Nadri

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