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Stem Cell Culture

Maintain self-renewal and potency
🎯 Difficulty ★★☆ Medium Duration About 1 day/passage 🎯 Use Culture and expand pluripotent or adult stem cells, maintaining undifferentiated state for research and application
📖 Principle
Specialized serum-free media with factors like LIF and feeder/matrix support maintain self-renewal and suppress differentiation
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1

Matrix/feeder preparation

1 h
Coat dishes (laminin/Matrigel) or seed feeder cells to support stem cells
💡 Tip Matrix concentration and uniform coating matter
⚠️ Caution Allow matrix to coat fully
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2

Medium and seeding

30 min
Resuspend and seed cells in serum-free medium with factors like LIF
💡 Tip Seeding density affects colony formation
⚠️ Caution Fresh medium to avoid factor degradation
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3

Maintenance and feeding

30 min daily
Feed fresh medium daily, maintain appropriate confluency and undifferentiated morphology
💡 Tip Monitor morphology to prevent spontaneous differentiation
⚠️ Caution Avoid over-confluency causing differentiation
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4

Passaging and cryopreservation

1 h
Passage with gentle enzyme or EDTA, cryopreserve extra cells
💡 Tip Gentle passaging preserves potency
⚠️ Caution Over-digestion damages pluripotent cells
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⚠️ 5 Common Beginner Mistakes

  • Wrong medium/factors cause spontaneous differentiation
  • Over-passaging causes karyotype abnormality or differentiation
  • Over-digestion damages viability
  • Over-confluency promotes differentiation
  • Contamination hard to eliminate and skews results

❓ FAQ

+How to confirm undifferentiated state?
Check compact colony morphology and pluripotency markers like Nanog, Oct4.
+Why daily feeding?
Maintain factor levels and clear differentiation-promoting metabolites, preventing spontaneous differentiation.
+Feeder vs feeder-free?
Feeder-free with matrix/factors is more controlled and standardized; feeder is classic but batch-variable.

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