Isolation and Expansion of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Murine Adipose Tissue

Abstract

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are currently intensively studied due to significant promise which they represent for successful implementations of future cell therapy clinical protocols. This in turn emphasizes importance of careful preclinical studies of MSC effects in various murine disease models. The appropriate cell preparations with reproducible biological properties are important to minimize variability of results of experimental cell therapies. We describe here a simple protocol for isolation of murine MSCs from adipose tissues and their reproducible multi-log expansion under hypoxia conditions.