Research Article

Comparative Analysis of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Umbilical Cord, Dental Pulp, and Menstrual Blood as Sources for Cell Therapy

Table 2

Cell population doubling for UC-MSCs, DP-MSCs, and MB-MSCs.

UC-MSCsDP-MSCsMB-MSCs

P2PDT (d)1.020 ± 0.1101.570 ± 0.0461.873 ± 0.015#
PDR0.988 ± 0.1070.637 ± 0.0190.534 ± 0.005#

P6PDT (d)1.553 ± 0.0591.947 ± 0.0511.887 ± 0.025#
PDR0.644 ± 0.0240.517 ± 0.0190.530 ± 0.007#

P10PDT (d)1.430 ± 0.0852.02 ± 0.0402.770 ± 0.053
PDR0.701 ± 0.0420.495 ± 0.0100.361 ± 0.007

Compared with P6 of corresponding MSCs; #compared with P10 of corresponding MSCs; compared with DP-MSCs at corresponding passage; compared with MB-MSCs at corresponding passage, . PDT, population-doubling time; PDR, population-doubling rate; UC-MSCs: umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells; DP-MSCs: dental pulp mesenchymal stem cells; MB-MSCs: menstrual blood mesenchymal stem cells; P: passage.