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Hypoxia with Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cell coculture maintains stemness of umbilical cord blood-derived CD34+ cells.

Dewan ZhaoLingjia LiuQiang ChenFangfang WangQiuyang LiQiang ZengJingcao HuangMaowen LuoWenxian LiYuhuan ZhengTing Liu
Published in: Stem cell research & therapy (2018)
Our data demonstrate that cord blood HSPCs maintain stemness better under hypoxia than normoxia with WJ-MSC coculture, partially due to the increased secretion of VEGF, decreased secretion of IL-6 by WJ-MSCs, and selective activation of stem cell signal pathways in HSPCs. This suggests that the oxygenation may not only be a physiological regulatory factor but also a cell engineering tool in HSPC research, and this may have important translational and clinical implications.
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