Cultured ADSCs at passage three were characterized by flow cytometric evaluation of the expression of MSCs markers (CD29, CD44, CD105) with negative expression of hematopoietic and endothelial markers (CD45, CD34, CD31), this was performed following previously published protocols [24 (
link),30 (
link)]. Briefly, ADSCs were detached, centrifuged to pellet the cells, washed twice, and fixed with 10% neutral buffered formalin for 30 min, washed again, and finally the cell pellet was resuspended in 100 µL FACS buffer containing primary antibody for 60 min at room temperature in the dark. The primary antibodies are FITC-labeled anti-CD29 (BioLegend, San Diego, CA, USA),
anti-CD44 (BD Pharmingen, San Diego, CA, USA),
anti-CD105 (abcam, San Diego, CA, USA),
anti-CD45 (BioLegend, San Diego, CA, USA),
anti-CD34 (BD Pharmingen, San Diego, CA, USA), and
anti-CD31 (BD Pharmingen, San Diego, CA, USA). Then, propidium iodide was added to exclude dead cells, and the data was obtained on an Attune NxT Flow Cytometer (Applied Biosystems, Waltham, MA, USA). Twenty-thousand events were acquired, and the data was analyzed by Attune NxT Software v 3.1 (Applied Biosystems, Waltham, MA, USA).
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