Adipose and Bone Marrow Derived-Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Express Similar Tenogenic Expression Levels when Subjected to Mechanical Uniaxial Stretching In Vitro

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Morphology of isolated human AD-MSCs and BM-MSCs from adipose fat pad and bone marrow, respectively. (a) Enzymatic digestion of adipose tissue using collagenase type I, and the MSCs population isolated from the SVF. (b) MSCs isolated from bone marrow and the mononuclear cells isolated by Ficoll density centrifugation. At primary culture passage-0 (Day 6), fibroblastic as well as small clear cells can be observed. The number of clear cells was reduced during the passages and fibroblastic cells appeared to be the dominant cell type.