Research Article

Effects of Macromolecular Crowding on Human Adipose Stem Cell Culture in Fetal Bovine Serum, Human Serum, and Defined Xeno-Free/Serum-Free Conditions

Table 1

Culture media formulations used for cell expansion and differentiation assays.

MediumBasal mediaSerumCoating/coating-free
supplements
Supplementation

Expansion FBSDMEM/F-12
(Life Technologies, Gibco,
Rockville, MD)
10% FBS
(Life Technologies)
None1% GlutaMAX
(GlutaMAX I; Life Technologies),
1% p/s (p/s; 100 U/mL penicillin,
0.1 mg/mL streptomycin; Lonza)
Expansion HSDMEM/F-1210% HS (Lonza,
Walkersville, MD)
None1% GlutaMAX, 1% p/s
Expansion XF/SFStemPro MSC SFM
(Life Technologies)
NoneCELLstart™ coating
(Life Technologies)
1% GlutaMAX, 0,3% p/s,
StemPro MSC SFM XenoFree
supplement (Life Technologies)
Adipogenic
FBS/HS
DMEM/F-1210% FBS/HSNoneFor 4 days induction during cyclic
differentiation: 1% GlutaMAX,
1% p/s, 0.5 mM isobutylmethylxanthine
(IBMX; Sigma), 0.2 mM indomethacin
(Sigma), 1 μM dexamethasone (Sigma),
and 10 μg/mL insulin (Sigma)
Adipogenic
XF/SF
StemPro
MSC SFM
NoneCELLstart coatingFor 4 days induction during cyclic
differentiation: 1% GlutaMAX, 0,3% p/s,
StemPro MSC SFM XenoFree supplement,
same adipogenic supplements as
in FBS/HS cultures
Osteogenic
FBS/HS
DMEM/F-1210% FBS/HSNone1% GlutaMAX, 1% p/s,
150 μM L-ascorbic acid
2-phosphate (Sigma),
10 mM beta-glycerophosphate (Sigma),
10 nM dexamethasone (Sigma)
Ostegenic
XF/SF
StemPro
MSC SFM
NoneCELLstart coating1% GlutaMAX, 0,3% p/s,
StemPro MSC SFM XenoFree supplement,
same osteogenic supplements as
in FBS/HS cultures
Chondrogenic
FBS/HS
DMEM/F-12NoneNone1% GlutaMAX, 0,2% p/s,
1x ITS + 1 (Sigma), 50 μM L-ascorbic acid
2-phosphate, 55 μM sodium pyruvate
(Life Technologies), 23 μM L-proline (Sigma),
10 ng/mL TGF-β (Sigma)
Chondrogenic
XF/SF
StemPro
MSC SFM
NoneNone1% GlutaMAX, 0,2% p/s, StemPro
MSC SFM XenoFree supplement,
same chondrogenic supplements as
in FBS/HS cultures

FBS: fetal bovine serum; HS: human serum; XF/SF: xeno-free/serum-free; StemPro MSC SFM XenoFree: StemPro mesenchymal stem cell serum-free and xeno-free media; p/s: penicillin and streptomycin; TGF-β: transforming growth factor beta.