Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (hMSCs) were cultured in
35 mm glass-bottom Petri dishes (Cellvis, Mountain View, CA) with a micropatterned or flat mPOC surface in growth medium or osteogenic differentiation medium at 37°C and 5% CO2. The PWS microscopy images were acquired on a commercial inverted microscope (Leica, Buffalo Grove, IL, DMIRB) with a Hamamatsu
Image EM charge-coupled device camera (C9100-13) coupled to a liquid crystal tunable filter (CRi, Woburn, MA) to collect spectrally resolved images between 500 to 700 nm with 1 nm step size. Further, broadband illumination is provided by an Xcite-120 LED lamp (Excelitas, Waltham, MA). PWS microscopy was used to capture spatial variations of the refractive index distribution or chromatin packing density heterogeneity (
) within the nucleus. Further, the statistical parameter of chromatin structure, packing scaling (
) was calculated from
.
31 (link) At least 10 independent fields of view were utilized for each experiment and four biological replicates were used for the analysis.
was calculated for 111 hMSCs from the flat surface, and 110 hMSCs on micropillar surfaces.
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