• Maryam Samareh Salavati Pour, Fatemeh Hoseinpour Kasgari, Alireza Farsinejad, Ahmad Fatemi, Gholamhossein Hassanshahi, and Roohollah Mirzaee Khalilabadi.
• Student Research Committee, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
• Arch Iran Med. 2021 Aug 1; 24 (8): 607-614.

BackgroundDue to their self-renewal and differentiation ability, the mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been studied extensively. However, the MSCs lifespan is restricted; they undergo several divisions in vitro that cause several alternations in cellular features and relatively lessens their application. Thus, this study was aimed to assess the effect of platelet-derived microparticles (PMPs), a valuable source of proteins, microRNAs (miRNAs), and growth factors, on the expression of hTERT, c-MYC, p16, p53, and p21 as the most important aging and cell longevity genes alongside with population doubling time (PDT) of PMP-treated cells in comparison to a control group.MethodsUmbilical cord MSCs (UC-MSCs) were used in this study, whereby they reached a confluency of 30%. MSCs were treated by PMPs (50 µg/mL), and then, PDT was determined for both groups. Quantitative expression of hTERT, c-MYC, p16, p53, and p21 was examined through quantitative real-time PCR at various intervals (i.e. after five and thirty days as well as freezing-thawing process).ResultsOur results demonstrated that the treated group had a shorter PDT in comparison to the control group (P<0.050). The real-Time PCR data also indicated that PMPs were able to remarkably up-regulate hTERT and c-MYC genes expression while down-regulating the expression of p16, p21, and p53 genes (P<0.050), especially following five days of treatment.ConclusionAccording to these data, it appears that PMPs are a safe and effective candidate for prolonging the lifespan of UC-MSCs; however, further investigations are needed to corroborate this finding.© 2021 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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