PMID- 26044732 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20160726 LR - 20181113 IS - 0920-9069 (Print) IS - 1573-0778 (Electronic) IS - 0920-9069 (Linking) VI - 68 IP - 4 DP - 2016 Aug TI - Inhibitor of p53-p21 pathway induces the differentiation of human umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stem cells into cardiomyogenic cells. PG - 1257-65 LID - 10.1007/s10616-015-9886-5 [doi] AB - P53 is shown recently to play an important role in the proliferation and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells. In this study, human umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUCMSCs) were isolated and purified from the umbilical cords of normal or cesarean term deliveries, after treatment with 20 mumol/L PFT-alpha for 24 h, hUCMSCs were continued to be cultured for 4 weeks, cardiac-specific protein expression of cTnI, Desmin and Nkx2.5 was determined using immunofluorescence assay and RT-PCR. The expression of p53 and p21 was detected by western blot. Results showed that no expression of cTnI, Desmin or Nkx2.5 was observed in the control and the PFT-alpha group at 1 week after induction. However, after 4 weeks, while control group still had little expression of cTnI, Desmin and Nkx2.5, the PFT-alpha group demonstrated strong expression of cTnI, Desmin and Nkx2.5 (P < 0.001). At 4 weeks after induction, differentiation rate of cardiomyogenic cells in the PFT-alpha group (36.98 %) was significantly higher than that in the control group (4.41 %) (P < 0.01). Western blot analysis show that downregulation of p53 and p21 was seen in the PFT-alpha group at 4 weeks. The difference compared with the control group was statistically significant (P < 0.01). In conclusion, PFT-alpha can promote the differentiation of hUCMSCs into cardiomyogenic cells by modulating the p53-p21 pathway. FAU - Ruan, Zhong-Bao AU - Ruan ZB AD - Department of Cardiology, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, 225300, People's Republic of China. FAU - Zhu, Li AU - Zhu L AD - Department of Cardiology, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, 225300, People's Republic of China. tzcardiac@163.com. FAU - Yin, Yi-Gang AU - Yin YG AD - Department of Cardiology, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, 225300, People's Republic of China. FAU - Chen, Ge-Cai AU - Chen GC AD - Department of Cardiology, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, 225300, People's Republic of China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20150605 PL - United States TA - Cytotechnology JT - Cytotechnology JID - 8807027 PMC - PMC4960174 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cardiomyogenic cells OT - Differentiation OT - Human umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stem cells OT - PFT-alpha EDAT- 2015/06/06 06:00 MHDA- 2015/06/06 06:01 PMCR- 2017/08/01 CRDT- 2015/06/06 06:00 PHST- 2014/06/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/05/08 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/06/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/06/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/06/06 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2017/08/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1007/s10616-015-9886-5 [pii] AID - 9886 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s10616-015-9886-5 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cytotechnology. 2016 Aug;68(4):1257-65. doi: 10.1007/s10616-015-9886-5. Epub 2015 Jun 5.