Fig. 17 (abstract P49)
From: Abstracts from the 3rd International Genomic Medicine Conference (3rd IGMC 2015)
a Phase contrast micrograph of human umbilical cord Wharton’s Jelly stem cells (hWJSCs, 4x magnification); b Cell proliferation (MTT assay) of hWJSCs; c Flow cytometry analysis of surface-marker expression on hWJSCs showing positive staining for CD73 (top panel, left) , CD90 (top panel, middle), CD105 (top panel, right), CD29 (bottom panel, left), CD44 (bottom panel, middle), and negative staining CD 45 (bottom panel, right); d Toludine Blue histology of hWJSCs showing both control (left) and chondrocyte differentiation (right) following 21 days of culture in chondrocytic differentiation medium; e Gene expression analysis (qRT-PCR) showing increased expression of three markers SOX9 (left), COL2A1 (middle) and Aggrecan (right) respectively following chondrocytic differentiation of hWJSCs