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Isolation, Identification and Induced Differentiation of Bovine Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells

WANG Yi-min1,2, DAI Yang2, LIU Xin-feng2, LIU Zhong-wei2, LI Ji-xia2,GUO Hong2, DING Xiang-bin2   

  1. 1.Institute of Bioengineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China2. College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin 300384, China

  • Received:2013-12-17 Online:2014-07-20 Published:2014-08-21

Abstract: In this study, bovine skeletal muscle satellite cells were isolated and identified, muscle tissues were digested by collagenase and trypsinase, then the satellite cells were purified and induced differentiate into myotubes. The muscle satellite cells and myotubes were observed, and detected by RT-PCR and immunofluorescent staining technology. The results showed that the muscle satellite cells were in healthy morphology, and more than 93 percent of the cells expressed the marker genes paired box protein 7(Pax7) and myogenic differentiation antigen(MyoD). After myogenesis induction, satellite cells began to convergence, and finally formed multinucleated myotubes expression of myogenin(MyoG) and myosin heavy chain(MHC). Our results indicated that high purity skeletal muscle satellite cells were successfully isolated and identification, which could provide cell source for muscle development and bovine muscle quality improvement study.

Key words:

bovine; skeletal muscle satellite cells; cell culture; cell differentiation; identification