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Title: | Caspase inhibitor Z-VAD-FMK enhances the freeze-thaw survival rate of human embryonic stem cells | Authors: | Heng, B.C. Clement, M.V. Cao, T. |
Keywords: | Apoptosis Cryopreservation Embryonic Freezing Human Inhibition Stem cells |
Issue Date: | Oct-2007 | Citation: | Heng, B.C., Clement, M.V., Cao, T. (2007-10). Caspase inhibitor Z-VAD-FMK enhances the freeze-thaw survival rate of human embryonic stem cells. Bioscience Reports 27 (4-5) : 257-264. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10540-007-9051-2 | Abstract: | Previous study demonstrated that the low survival of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) under conventional slow-cooling cryopreservation protocols is predominantly due to apoptosis rather than cellular necrosis. Hence, this study investigated whether a synthetic broad-spectrum irreversible inhibitor of caspase enzymes, Z-VAD-FMK can be used to enhance the post-thaw survival rate of hESC. About 100 mM Z-VAD-FMK was supplemented into either the freezing solution, the post-thaw culture media or both. Intact and adherent hESC colonies were cryopreserved so as to enable subsequent quantitation of the post-thaw cell survival rate through the MTT assay, which can only be performed with adherent cells. Exposure to 100 mM Z-VAD-FMK in the freezing solution alone did not significantly enhance the post-thaw survival rate (10.2% vs. 9.9%, p > 0.05). However, when 100 mM Z-VAD-FMK was added to the post-thaw culture media, there was a significant enhancement in the survival rate from 9.9% to 14.4% (p < 0.05), which was further increased to 18.7% when Z-VAD-FMK was also added to the freezing solution as well (p < 0.01). Spontaneous differentiation of hESC after cryopreservation was assessed by morphological observations under bright-field microscopy, and by immunocytochemical staining for the pluripotency markers SSEA-3 and TRA-1-81. The results demonstrated that exposure to Z-VAD-FMK did not significantly enhance the spontaneous differentiation of hESC within post-thaw culture. © 2007 The Biochemical Society. | Source Title: | Bioscience Reports | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/79957 | ISSN: | 01448463 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10540-007-9051-2 |
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