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. 2020 Nov;70(11):1836-1850.
doi: 10.1007/s12031-020-01577-w. Epub 2020 Jun 8.

Direct Conjugation of Retinoic Acid with Gold Nanoparticles to Improve Neural Differentiation of Human Adipose Stem Cells

Vajihe Asgari  1 , Amir Landarani-Isfahani  2 , Hossein Salehi  1 , Noushin Amirpour  1 , Batool Hashemibeni  1 , Mohammad Kazemi  3 , Hamid Bahramian  4
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Direct Conjugation of Retinoic Acid with Gold Nanoparticles to Improve Neural Differentiation of Human Adipose Stem Cells

Vajihe Asgari et al. J Mol Neurosci. 2020 Nov.

Abstract

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been proposed as useful medical carriers in the field of regenerative medicine. This study aimed to assess the direct conjugation ability of retinoic acid (RA) with AuNPs and to develop a strategy to differentiate the human adipose-derived stromal/stem cells (hADSCs) into neurons using AuNPs-RA. The physical properties of this nanocarrier were characterized using FT-IR, TEM, and FE-SEM. Moreover, the efficiency of RA conjugation on AuNPs was determined at 99% using UV-Vis spectroscopy. According to the MTT assay, an RA concentration of 66 μM caused a 50% inhibition of cell viability and AuNPs were not cytotoxic in concentrations below 5 μg/ml. Real-time PCR and immunocytochemistry proved that AuNPs-RA is able to increase the expression of neuronal marker genes and the number of neuronal protein (GFAP and MAP2)-positive cells, 14 days post-induction of hADSCs. Taken together, these results confirmed that the AuNPs-RA promote the neuronal differentiation of hADSCs.

Keywords: Cell viability; Gold nanoparticles; Human adipose-derived stromal/stem cells; Neuronal differentiation; Retinoic acid.

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