Sertraline increases the survival of retinoic acid induced neuronal cells but not glial cells from human mesenchymal stem cells.

Verdi, Javad; Sharif, Shiva; Banafshe, Hamid Reza; Shoae‐Hassani, Alireza

An increase in the number of viable in vitro differentiated neuronal cells is important for their use in clinics. A proportion of differentiated cells lose their viability before being used, and therefore we decided to use a pharmacological agent, sertraline, to increase neural cell differentiation and their survival. Purified endometrial stem cells (EnSCs) were examined for neuronal and glial cell specific markers after retinoic acid (RA) and sertraline treatment via RT-PCR, immunocytochemistry and Western blot analysis. The survival of differentiated cells was measured by MTT assay and the frequency of apoptosis, demonstrated by caspase-3-like activity. EnSCs were differentiated into neuronal cells after RA induction. Sertraline increased neuronal cell differentiation by 1.2-fold and their survival by 1.4-fold, and decreased from glial cell differentiation significantly. The findings indicate that sertraline could be used to improve the in vitro differentiation process of stem cells into neuronal cells, and may be involved in regenerative pharmacology in future.

MESENCHYMAL stem cells; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of tretinoin; SERTRALINE; CELL differentiation; THERAPEUTICS

Cell Biology International, 2014, Vol 38, Issue 8, p901

1065-6995

Academic Journal

10.1002/cbin.10283