Life Span of the Chondrocytes from Human Umbilical Cord Derived-Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation
Ketut Dewi Kumara Wati*1,2, Endah Dhyanti Pratiwi3, Yanni Dirgantara3, Cynthia Retna Sartika3, Meita Dhamayanti1,4, Budi Setiabudiawan1,4 and Ida Parwati1,5

1Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.

2Department of Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University / Sanglah Hospital Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

3Prostem laboratory, Jakarta, Indonesia.

4Department of Child Health, and Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.

5Department of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Dr. Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.

Corresponding Author E-mail: dewi_kumara@unud.ac.id

Abstract: Problem in growth might need to be sought deeper inside the cells to enhance better management. There was a lack of study done in chondrocytes to determine growth problem mechanism. We sought to see the chondrocyte’s life span by observing the cells characteristic in a small container over long period. Human mesenchymal stem cell-derived MSC underwent chondrocyte  differentiation procedure in a 96 wells-plate using chondrocyte/osteocyte differentiation medium followed by basal medium. A morphological observation and  MTT assay was done to observe apoptosis in chondrocyte in the different wells. MTT assay absorbance was used to determine number of apoptosis. Statistical analysis was done to assess the different of mean absorbance values on different days of observation using Anova folowed by post hoc analysis in SPSS IBM package version 24 , with significance determined at P<0.05. Chondrocytes was confirmed with 1% Alcian blue staining and showed characteristic larger then its parent MSC. The MTT assay showed that chondrocyte absorbance reduce from day 3 through day 14, which was different significantly (anova, P=0.03) and day 14 was the most differed compared to day 7 and day 10 (P=0.02, P=0.017 and P=0.013, respectively). The 2D monolayer chondrocyte underwent total  apoptosis on day 14 which can set the limit for observation in further long-term observational cell study.

Keywords: Chondrocytes; Monolayer; Osteocyte

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