AAS ›› 2015, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 704-709.doi: 10.16098/j.issn.0529-1356.2015.05.023

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Advance in the study of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell differentiation into hepatocyte in vitro

DAI Ke-qiang 1,2,3 DING Yi 1,2,3 FAN Jin-yu 1,2 XU Cun-shuan 1,2,3*   

  1. 1.CoConstruction Key Laboratory for Cell Differentiation and Regulation, He’nan Normal University, He’nan Xinxiang 453007, China; 
    2.Key Laboratory for Bioengineering, He’nan Normal University,  He’nan Xinxiang 453007, China; 3.College of Life Science, He’nan Normal University,  He’nan Xinxiang 453007, China
  • Received:2015-02-09 Revised:2015-04-21 Online:2015-10-06 Published:2015-10-06
  • Contact: XU Cun-shuan E-mail:cellkeylab@126.com

Abstract:

Liver diseases have become one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. Therapeutic methods such as orthotopic liver transplantation, hepatocyte transplantation, bioartificial liver etc are considered to treat the advanced liver disease. However, the lack of liver donor in liver transplantation and the shortage of cells sources in cytotherapy are the major obstacles for these treatment methods. Exploring new origins of extra-hepatic cells is needed. Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs), characterized as multiple differentiation, rapid self-renewal, and easy to be cultured and proliferated, have been considered as the most promising source of cells. A number of recent studies have shown that BMSCs can be differentiated into hepatocytes like cells (HLCs) in vitroandin vivo. This paper reviews the up-to-date achievements and progresses in the field of isolation, characterization and induction of BMSCs, summarizes the superiority and existence question of each kind of induction condition, and finally makes a summary and expectation for this research field.

Key words: Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell, Induction, Differentiation, Hepatocyte-like cell