Phenotypic Analysis and Differentiation of Murine Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) hold great promise as therapeutic tools to treat different types of disease and the use of preclinical animal models is mandatory for the development of novel MSC-based therapies. The mouse is one of the most important species used for preclinical experiments and, by extension, so is the isolation and characterization of murine MSCs. This chapter presents methods for the phenotypic analysis of cultured murine MSCs.