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Isolation, Culture, and Differentiation of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells and Osteoclast Progenitors from Mice
Published on: January 6, 2018
Chronic high glucose and insulin stimulate bone-marrow stromal cells adipogenic differentiation in young
Antonio H Chaves Neto1, Victor G B Brito1,2, Thamine Landim de Barros1,2
1Department of Basic Sciences, School of Dentistry, São Paulo State University-UNESP, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Abstract:
We evaluated whether genetic predisposition is sufficient to induce changes due to chronic high glucose (HG; 25 mmol/L) in the presence or absence of insulin (HGI; 10 μg/ml) on osteogenic differentiation and markers in bone-marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) from young Wistar (WBMSCs) and spontaneous hypertensive rats (SBMSCs) without hypertension. HG suppressed osteogenic differentiation in both the strains, observed by mineralization inhibition and decreased levels of the osteogenic markers Runx2, osterix, osteopontin, and bone sialoprotein, compared to osteogenic medium (OM) cells. In WBMSCs, the effects of HG were associated with the down regulation of ERK1/2 and up regulation of p38 activities; however, HGI did not revert the effects of HG on MAPK activities. Moreover, HG did not affect MAPK signaling in SBMSCs compared to that in OM. HGI increased mineralization in WBMSCs compared to that in OM, but not in SBMSCs. High expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma and glucose transporter type 4 in OM could be related with the predisposition to adipogenic differentiation noted in SBMSCs and was confirmed by emergence of adipocyte-like cells by HGI treatment. Downregulation of p38 and upregulation of JNK activities were observed in both BMSCs treated with HGI compared to those treated by HG. Ma (osmotic control) also suppressed osteogenic differentiation in both the strains. In conclusion, we demonstrated that SBMSCs from young spontaneous hypertensive rats, without hypertension but with genetic and epigenetic predisposition, exhibited decreased osteoblastic differentiation under HG and HGI did not revert the effects of HG in SBMSCs but increased adipogenic differentiation.
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