Research Article

Migration, Proliferation, and Differentiation of Cord Blood Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Treated with Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Valproic Acid

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VPA exerts different effects on MSC proliferation and expression of pluripotency markers. (a) Cell proliferation was assayed by measuring the intracellular ATP released by CB-derived MSC after pretreatment with or without (control) 1, 5, or 10 mM VPA. The experiment was performed twice using 6 replicate wells per condition, and indicates statistically significant difference relative to control. (b) The expression of the pluripotency genes SOX2 and Oct-4 was evaluated by qRT-PCR using 18S mRNA as internal calibrator. The data is representative of two independent experiments and indicates statistically significant difference relative to control.
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