Characteristics of Multipotent Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Isolated from Human Endometrium and Endometriosis Lesions
Mesenchymal stromal cells isolated from human endometrium and endometriosis lesions express stem cell markers and differentiate in vitro, exhibiting similarities and differences between eutopic and ectopic sources.
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The paper examined fibroblast-like cell cultures generated from human endometriosis lesions and from eutopic endometrium after enzymatic dissociation, assessing viability, surface marker expression, epithelial contamination, and proliferation across serial passages, and testing differentiation potential. Both ectopic-derived and eutopic-derived cultures showed mesenchymal stromal characteristics, with ectopic cultures expressing CD90, CD73, and CD105 and high initial viability (>90%), but viability declined by passage 3; epithelial cytokeratin-7–positive cells present in zero-passage ectopic cultures (10–25%) diminished by passage 2. From passage 1 to 3, the proportion of proliferating cells and population doubling level increased, and endometrium-derived cells could undergo adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation in vitro. The authors note ectopic and eutopic cultures differ in composition over passages, and include this as a cell model for drug/technology testing aimed at suppressing endometriosis lesion growth and spread, highlighting that lesion-derived cell properties evolve with culture. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it characterizes multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells isolated from human endometriosis lesions and compares them to those from human endometrium.
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