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Sertraline increases the survival of retinoic acid induced neuronal cells but not glial cells from human mesenchymal stem cells
Author(s) -
Verdi Javad,
Sharif Shiva,
Banafshe Hamid Reza,
ShoaeHassani Alireza
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cell biology international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.932
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1095-8355
pISSN - 1065-6995
DOI - 10.1002/cbin.10283
Subject(s) - retinoic acid , stem cell , cellular differentiation , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , neural stem cell , immunocytochemistry , viability assay , mtt assay , mesenchymal stem cell , p19 cell , cell , cancer research , cell culture , adult stem cell , endocrinology , biochemistry , genetics , gene
Abstract An increase in the number of viable in vitro differentiated neuronal cells is important for their use in clinics. A proportion of differentiated cells lose their viability before being used, and therefore we decided to use a pharmacological agent, sertraline, to increase neural cell differentiation and their survival. Purified endometrial stem cells (EnSCs) were examined for neuronal and glial cell specific markers after retinoic acid (RA) and sertraline treatment via RT‐PCR, immunocytochemistry and Western blot analysis. The survival of differentiated cells was measured by MTT assay and the frequency of apoptosis, demonstrated by caspase‐3‐like activity. EnSCs were differentiated into neuronal cells after RA induction. Sertraline increased neuronal cell differentiation by 1.2‐fold and their survival by 1.4‐fold, and decreased from glial cell differentiation significantly. The findings indicate that sertraline could be used to improve the in vitro differentiation process of stem cells into neuronal cells, and may be involved in regenerative pharmacology in future.