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That is a really good explanation about how to derive the mesenchymal stem cells from rats. My work involves derivation of mesenchymal stem cells from mice. I tried to derive them in a similar way but was unsuccessful as my colonies does not have any spindle shaped or round shaped as shown above. So, I would like to ask you can i implement the same kind of steps that are shown above for derivation of MSCs?? Further, how often do i have to change the medium once I plate the primary mesenchymal stem cells derived from the limbs?? You have not mentioned the percentage of trypsin u have used for deattachment of MSCs from the plastic plates?? I have used around 0.25% trypsin with 5mins of incubation at 37C. But still the cells are not deattaching from the plates. Hope to get a reply soon from you.
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Hi Chandra,
I haven't worked with mice MSCs and am not very sure whether you can get cells of the same shapes as rat MSCs. But you can try the experimental steps as listed. I usually keep 2 dishes for every fresh isolation. Then I change media one day after isolation for one dish, and the other dish I change media two days after isolation. Some times change media one day after is better and some times change media two days after is better. After I pick the better dish, then I usually change media every 3 days.
I used 0.25% trypsin plus EDTA. Only trypsin itself does not do a good job in lifting the cells. Supplement EDTA makes cell detachment much faster (usually takes 3~4 minutes for rMSCs I used). The trysin-EDTA I used is from invitrogen with catalogue number 25200-056.
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Hi Linxia,
I very much enjoyed your explanation in the vedio. I would like to know after you enrich the MSCs, can you stock them for later use and how many times (passage) i can use from one preparation of MSCs?
best regards, Ava GUO Ph.D student Hong Kong, China
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Hi Linxia,
I am from china, i guess so are you. lol. I cannot get access to this video. Would you please send me a copy to jianhua_lee@126.com?
Thanks a lot!!
Lijianhua
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Hi Jianhua,
Unfortunately we don't have a video copy either. If you don't access to the written up protocol either, I can send you a copy of that. Sorry couldn't help with the video.
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Hi linxia
This is Joe from montreal, would you like to send aslo a copy of protocols to my email address joechaochine@gmail.com. and also if possible some pictures of normal rat MSC, so i can compare their shapes with my cells.
Joe
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Hi Joe,
Sure. I will send you a copy of the protocol. As for the pictures, could you check out the figures in the protocol first and see if those are what you are looking for. If you need more, I am willing to send you some other figures we have.
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Dear Linxia
I am Kinga from Budapest, Hungary. Could you please send me a copy of your protocol, I am starting my work with rat mesenchymal stem cells now and it would be really helpful.
lakatoskinga87@gmail.com
thank you very much
Kinga Lakatos
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Hi LinXia,
It is such a good video about how to derive the mesenchymal stem cells from rats and seperate the single-colony MSCs. I derive MSCs as shown above. But the cells are not deattaching from the 25 flask with trypsin plus EDTA which is purchased from invitrogen with catalogue number 25200-056 as you describe. If there is any other reason, could you tell me?
Looking forwad to getting a reply soon from you.
best regards,
Lijie Huang
Ph.D. Student
Wenzhou Medical College
Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Hi Lijie,
If the cells are not lifting from the surface, try to incubate in Trypsin-EDTA for a little bit longer. After 5min, you can gentlly shake the flask to see whether the cells are coming up. If not, give them a couple of more minutes. Also make sure the Trypsin you get has EDTA in it. If it is only Trypsin (without EDTA), it takes much longer for the cells to deattach. Hope it helps.
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Dear Linxia,
I really need mouse bone marrow-derived messenchymal stem cell for my research but i haven't isolated them yet.
Although your protocol is used for isolation rat bone marrow-MSC, i think i can use for my work. So can you send me a copy of your protocol to my email address: ntknguyen@hcmus.edu.vn
Looking forwad to getting a reply soon from you.
Nguyen Thi Kim Nguyen
Laboratory of Stem Cell Research & Application
Viet Nam National university of scinece, Viet Nam
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Hi Linxia,
I really enjoyed the video. I have isolated cell mesenchymal from murine bone marrow, but cultures do not proliferate (only until the second passages), I have used low-glucose DMEM plus 10% fetal bovine serum and Pen-Strep. Could you help me?
Posted by: Camila CarvalhoJanuary 16, 2012, 11:44 AM
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Hi there,
I have also experienced bad isolations. Some times the cells proliferate very slowly, show up as very large and flat morphology. These are senescent cells and is very unlikely to make them regrow healthy and fast. When this happens, I would do another isolation to get new cells and usually would get rid of the problem.
Another thing is don't use medium that's been sitting in the fridge for very long. The pH changes over time and that affect the growth of the cells.
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Hi Linxia,
I cannot get access to this video. I am very interested about MSC subpopulation. What can you tell me about this?Is it possible to have the protocol to separate single-colony derived cells using cloning cylinders ?
Thank you very much
mariarosaria
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Hi Lixia,
I dont have access to this video in JOVE. Please send me your protocol to my mail id. My mail id is msvnathan@gmail.com.
Thanking you,
S. Vaithinathan
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Dear Linxia
I would like to know whether you add additional growth factors to the medium so to increase the confluency of the cells as i have carried out the experiment but the cells were quite few in number and never increased in number after a certain period of time (after 10 days).
please kindly provide me the essential steps and precautions used during culturing and the factors required to increase the cell confluency.
I have used high-glucose DMEM plus 15% fetal bovine serum and Pen-Strep. Could you help me and provide the composition and stimulating factors required for growth
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Hi Meera,
I used low-glucose DMEM plus 10% FBS and pen-strep. No additional growth factors were added to the culture medium. The percentage of MSCs from bone marrow is very low, so for the first passage, you won't see many cells. But after a while, the adherent MSCs should grow and populate very fast and form colonies. If your cell number is not enough and they also don't grow fast enough, it might be related to the isolation. I have also experienced bad isolations. This seem to be also related to the animal that's used. When I use another animal, the problem is usually solved. You may try a new isolation. Also, you can optimize your culture medium. I haven't used high-glucose DMEM so I am not sure whether that would affect the growth of the cells. You could try low-glucose DMEM and also different concentration of FBS to see whether it helps.
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Dear Linxia
Thanks for your reply. I want to just discuss the protocol which i follow for the isolation of MSCs from Swiss albino mouse. I dissect out the femur and tibia, which is placed in DMEM (with L-glutamine, 4.5 gm glucose per litre with sodium pyruvate) with Pen/Strep soln in ice cold condition. This is placed as such for half an hour as i would be removing the tissues so to get bones only during flushing. While flushing I transfer the bone segments into Pen/Strp soln and one by one I flush the bone marrow cells with DMEM supplemented with 15 % FBS. When everything has been flushed out with the help of the syringe and the bones have become pale in colour. I centrifuge the whole cells and plate the pellets in DMEM supplemented with FBS. I use a primitive technique for isolation of MSC by plastic adherence. I change this media in 3 hours, maximum cells are aspirated out (HSCs). Then next day firstly I remove the media and allow the cells to grow with removal of media every day.
Thus by this protocol I get cells which are adherent. I am unable to get these cells into confluent stage, I have studied that certain mesenchymal stimulating factors are available which are added to attain confluency. I studied ur papers abstract but it also mention no such use.
Could u tell me the concentration of glucose in low-glucose DMEM.
As I dont have access to this video in JOVE. Please send this protocol to my mail id and please do help me out in this context.
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Hi Meera,
The DMEM I used is from Invitrogen (Cat # 11885-084). The complete formulation can be found from this website: http://www.invitrogen.com/site/us/en/home/support/Product-Technical-Resources/media_formulation.48.html.
I see that you change medium 3 hours after plating your cells. Next time when you plating the cells, I would suggest that you plate several dishes. For dish 1, change medium as you normally do (say 3h after plating, or 6h later); for dish 2, change medium the next day; for dish 3, change medium 2 days later. From my experience, some times change medium the next day gives me better results while other times change medium 2 days later gives me better results. I have not tried change medium 3 hours after plating, since I want to give the cells enough time to attach. You could try this out to see whether it may help.
Also, you are isolating MSCs from mouse, which is also different from isolating from rat. I haven't done isolation from mouse before, so I am not sure if there are other critical steps involved. Maybe you could also look into some literature that particularly describes mouse MSC isolation.
BTW, I still couldn't see you email address. You can drop me an email at zhanglin@msu.edu and I can send you a copy of the protocol.
Posted by: Naama Toledano FurmanFebruary 9, 2012, 2:44 AM
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Hi Naama,
The cryopreservative medium I used is 20% FBS and 20% DMSO in MSC culture medium (But the final concentration is 10% FBS and 10% DMSO, please read the following text for why). Here is how I do it: First trypsinize MSCs, then add culture medium to stop trypsinization and collect cells. Spin down the cells and get rid of the supernatant medium. Resuspend cells in MSC culture medium, then add an equal amount of cryopreservative medium slowly and drop-wise. Mix quickly and gently (Now DMSO is 10%). Place cells in vials, put cells at -20oC for a couple of hours, then put cells at -80oC overnight. The next day, store cells in liquid N2. Hope it helps.
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Dear Linxia
I'm also working with rat MSC. I was wondering how you managed to get a good single cell suspension for FACS analysis because my cells like to attach to each other.
And do you use any kind of positive control for you CD45- cells and isotypes?
Thank you,
Fabian
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Hi Fabian,
Usually my single cell suspension is pretty good. If you keep having problem, you could try use a 50um cell strainer to get rid of cell clumps. The MSCs we get are CD45-CD54+CD90+. I use magnetic cell sorting, flow cytometry is just used to verify that these cells does express CD54 and CD90, but not CD45. I don't think you need a positive control for CD45- and isotypes here. The peaks for the CD45- and isotypes basically overlaps with the 'cells only' control, which does not have fluorescence.
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Hi Linxia,
thank you for the detailed video. I'm working on RCS rat and isolate MSC from it. I've followed your protocol but got CD45+/CD54+/CD90+ cell population. Would longer incubation (almost 2 weeks for each incubation) cause the problem? Would higher concentration of Ab cause the false results? Other than that, I don't know what should be pay attention. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!
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Hi Yuchun,
When you say "almost 2 weeks for each incubation", do you mean you incubate the cells with the primary antibody for ~2 weeks? I only incubate with the primary antibody for ~30min on ice. Also, you probably need to optimize the antibody concentration. Try a couple of dilutions and pick the best one from your FACS results, then stick to that concentration. Hope it helps.
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Hi Linxia,
thanks for your answer. No, the cells are harvested for 2 weeks (1st: isolation from femurs and tibias, 2nd: after enrichment iwth CD54, and CD90). For primary antibody I incubate also 30min on ice. It seems like the selection (CD54 & CD90) doesn't work. Or other possibilities? Thanks a lot!
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Hi Yuchun,
So you get CD45+/CD54+/CD90+ cells? Do you do cell sorting before verify with FACS? What you could do is to sort out CD45- cells, then sort out CD54+/CD90+ cells from the CD45- population. Also, make sure your CD45 antibody is good. Some polyclonal antibodies may have lots of non-specific binding. It may recognize other antigens and therefore give you a positive signal. You may want to try with another antibody to see if it fixes the problem.
That is a really good explanation about how to derive the mesenchymal stem cells from rats. My work involves derivation of mesenchymal stem cells from mice. I tried to derive them in a similar way but was unsuccessful as my colonies does not have any spindle shaped or round shaped as shown above. So, I would like to ask you can i implement the same kind of steps that are shown above for derivation of MSCs?? Further, how often do i have to change the medium once I plate the primary mesenchymal stem cells derived from the limbs?? You have not mentioned the percentage of trypsin u have used for deattachment of MSCs from the plastic plates?? I have used around 0.25% trypsin with 5mins of incubation at 37C. But still the cells are not deattaching from the plates.
Hope to get a reply soon from you.
regards,
Chandra Sekhar Amara
Ph.D. Student
Hartmann Lab,
IMP, Vienna, Austria
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ReplyPosted by: chandra sekhar amaraMarch 29, 2010, 5:38 PM