Avaliação dos efeitos de peptonas vegetais como substituto do soro fetal bovino em cultura de células-tronco da polpa dentária de dentes decíduos humanos

Abstract

The evolution of cell culture techniques led to the necessity of eliminating components with animal origin, in order to prevent bacterial, viral or prionic contamination. Deciduous teeth dental pulp stem cells are multi potent stem cells which present high plasticity, being able to differentiate into osteogenic, adipogenic and chondrogenic lineages. The present work aims at testing the utilization of vegetal peptones (pea, wheat and soy) at the concentrations 0.5%; 1%, and 5% as possible substitutes for 10% Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) in SCs culture. Cell proliferation was assayed by the MTT method analyzed on spectrophotometer (VarioSkan). We performed osteogenic differentiation and employed Alizarin Red staining in order to test the differentiation support. We measured the concentration of calcium deposition by ressuspending the alizarin red content in alcoholic solution and by analyzing spectrophotometrically. MTT and osteogenic differentiation essays allowed to conclude that wheat peptone at 1% was the most efficient in the conditions employed. The concentration of 5% of all the peptones utilized was toxic. Upon analyzing the aminograms of the three peptones, it was possible to infer that the higher efficiency of wheat peptone may relate to the greater proportion of proline and glutamic acid.