The procedure has been previously described [53 (link)]. Briefly, bone marrow from tibias and femurs of C57BL/6 mice were collected. Cell suspensions were seeded at a concentration of 106 cells/cm2 in modified minimum essential Eagle's medium (MEM) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Hyclone, Thermo Fisher Scientific), 2 mM glutamine, 100 U/ml penicillin, 100 mg/ml streptomycin (Lonza, Levallois-Perret, France) and 2 ng/ml human basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) (R&D Systems, Lille, France). MSCs were CD29+, Sca1+, CD73+. Functionally, MSCs had the capacity to differentiate into adipocytes, chondrocytes and osteoblasts when cultured under specific and appropriated conditions [53 (link)].
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