In osteogenic differentiation of murine MSC in hypoxia I see spontaneous adipogenic differentiation. In 21% O2 I do not have any problems. What might be the reason?
I also see spontaneous adipogenic differentiation in the control (no differentiation media) and in my osteogenic differentiation. I believe hypoxia might simply be a natural stimuli for MSC to switch into adipocyte.
I have also seen spontaneous adipogenic differentiation in ovine MSC in osteogenic differentiation media, but in my case was in normoxia. On the contrary, we have observed spontaneous osteogenic differentiation in adipogenic conditions in equine MSC (also in normoxia). It seems that each species has a higher predisposition towards a determined lineage, but we don't know the scientific reason :(
adipogenesis and osteogenesis lineages, both signaling pathways are shared. Among the disadvantages of chemical differentiation due to the unwanted differentiation is observed. This problem is overcome by using specialized micro RNAs.
What is your initial cell seeding density? High seeding densities or conditions in which cell shape is restrained drives adipogenic differentiation even when treated with osteogenic supplements. I've seen regularly with human MSCs. As far as I know this adhesion effect is independent of normoxia or hypoxia.
Thank you everybody for the contributions! Did you find any publications about this problem? @Jeroen: I thought about density as well, as I found that in the central area, where the cells where more dense, I saw more adipo-diff.. I started with 3000 cells / cm2 but waited until I got a dense plate.
With human MSCs (commercial) I have seen that hypoxia induces spontaneous osteogenic differentiation (measured by Alizarin Red) in control medium, but in osteogenic medium the differentiaion was less efficient in hypoxia. I did not check, however, if adipogenic differentiation was increased in hypoxic conditions.