Research Article

Modification of Human Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Using Polyethylenimine Combined with Modified TAT Peptide to Enhance BMP-2 Production

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Protein and mRNA expression of BMP-2 from hUCB-MSC modified with gWiz-BMP-2 complexes of mTAT/PEI, PEI25, and PEI. The culture supernatant and RNA samples were each collected at 2 days after transfection. (a) BMP-2 concentration in the supernatant was analyzed by ELISA. (b) BMP-2 mRNA expression was determined by RT-PCR. (c) Activation of its downstream Smad1/5/8 signaling was studied through Western blot analysis. versus NT. versus PEI or PEI25.
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