Research Article

Isolation and Characterization of Synovial Mesenchymal Stem Cell Derived from Hip Joints: A Comparative Analysis with a Matched Control Knee Group

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(a) LIVE/DEAD Viability/Cytotoxicity Kit assay. At passage 1, green fluorescence was observed in all cells derived from both joints, confirming that these cells were alive. Passage-4 cells derived from knee were alive, but the part of cells from hip was dead. At passage 7, the half of both cells was dead. (b) Cell Counting Kit-8 assay for passages 4 and 7 cells on 3 donors. The bar means standard deviation. At passage 4, viability of cells derived from knee was significantly higher than those from hip (, Mann–Whitney test). At passage 7, there was no significant difference of cell viability between knee and hip. difference. (c) The correlation between the fold increase and cell viability on each sample at passages 4 and 7.
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