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Osteocalcin secretion as an early marker of in vitro osteogenic differentiation of rat mesenchymal stem cells.
Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods - 1 Jun 2009
Nakamura Akifumi, Dohi Yoshiko, Akahane Manabu, Ohgushi Hajime, Nakajima Hiroshi, Funaoka Hiroyuki, Takakura Yoshinori
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Osteocalcin (OC) is a bone-specific protein synthesized by osteoblasts that represents a good marker for osteogenic maturation. We examined whether in vitro osteogenic differentiation of rat bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) could be simply assessed at earlier stages by monitoring OC secretion into the conditioned medium, rather than measuring OC deposition on the extracellular matrix (ECM), using...
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