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Human platelet lysate allows expansion and clinical grade production of mesenchymal stromal cells from small samples of bone marrow aspirates or marrow filter washouts

Bone Marrow Transplantation volume 40, pages 785–791 (2007)Cite this article

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We compared two protocols for the expansion of human mesenchymal stromal cells (hMSCs) starting from diagnostic samples of BM aspirates (2–5 ml) or using the remnants in the bag and filter at the end of the BM infusions. The protocols differed in the presence of either 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) or 5% platelet lysate (PL). We obtained a significantly (P=0.02) better expansion with PL, obtaining a median 1010-fold compared to 198-fold with a selected batch of FBS and in fewer days (29.8 in PL versus 41.4 in FBS). Overall, we recovered a variable number from 54.8 × 106 to 365 × 106 hMSCs in PL versus a variable number from 2.7 × 106 to 31 × 106 in FBS. No difference could be found in terms of gross morphology, differentiation potential, surface markers and immunological properties (inhibition of allogeneic PHA response and mixed lymphocyte reaction) of cells expanded with PL or FBS. The preparations were found within the range of acceptability for all the quality control criteria. Due to the clinical grade nature of the PL and the reproducibility of separate preparations, we propose this method to obtain hMSCs even from minute amounts of BM cells.

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The work was partially supported by the Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC), the ‘Associazione Italiana contro le Leucemie, linfomi e mieloma (AIL) Bergamo-Sezione Paolo Belli’ and by a generous personal donation from Dr EC.

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    C Capelli, M Domenghini, G Borleri, A Carobbio, C Micò, A Rambaldi, J Golay & M Introna

  2. Servizio di Immunoematologia e Medicina Trasfusionale Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

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Capelli, C., Domenghini, M., Borleri, G. et al. Human platelet lysate allows expansion and clinical grade production of mesenchymal stromal cells from small samples of bone marrow aspirates or marrow filter washouts. Bone Marrow Transplant 40, 785–791 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1705798

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