Comparison Study of Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Bone
Tissue Engineering
Abstract
Stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) have shown great promise
in the field of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. Recently,
human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell (BMSC)-derived EVs have
been considered for bone tissue engineering applications. In this study,
we evaluated the osteogenic capability of placental stem cell
(PSC)-derived EVs and compared them to the well-characterized
BMSC-derived EVs. EVs were extracted from three designated time points
(0, 7, and 21 days) after osteogenic differentiation. The results showed
that the PSC-derived EVs had much higher protein and lipid
concentrations than EVs derived from BMSCs. The extracted EVs were
characterized by observing their morphology and size distribution before
utilizing next-generation sequencing to determine their miRNA profiles.
It was identified that 306 miRNAs within the EVs, of which 64 were
significantly expressed in PSC-derived EVs that related to osteogenic
differentiation. In vitro osteogenic differentiation study indicated
that the late-stage (21-day extracted) derived EVs higher osteogenic
enhancing capability when compared to the early-stage derived EVs. We
demonstrated that EVs derived from PSCs could be a new source of EVs for
bone tissue engineering applications.