Which medium should I use to differentiate hMSC into bone cells and maintain them after differentiation?
A detailed, validated protocol is provided in the Product Manual and the corresponding Application Note.
Recommended culture conditions
- Use collagen‑ or fibronectin‑coated tissue culture plates.
- Change the medium every third day during differentiation.
After approximately 2 weeks, when osteogenic differentiation is complete, the differentiated bone cells tend to detach from uncoated plastic surfaces.
For this reason:
- Functional assays and analyses should be performed promptly after differentiation.
- Cells should be maintained in MSC Osteogenic Differentiation Medium until the end of the experiment.
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