Fig. 1

Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-derived MSCs) were characterized by morphology: BM-MSCs at 7 days of culture (a); BM-MSCs at 14 days of culture (b); BM-MSCs differentiated into osteocytes (c) and into adipocytes (d); flow cytometric characterization analyses of BM- MSCs: PE isotypic control (e); cells were uniformly positive for CD90⁺ and strongly expressed (f); cells were uniformly negative for CD 45⁻ and weakly expressed (g)