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Table 1 Comparative analysis of MSCs from bone marrow, umbilical cord blood, or adipose tissue

From: The involving progress of MSCs based therapy in atherosclerosis

Characteristics

BMSCs

ADSCs

UCMSCs

The success rate of isolating

High

High

Low

Colony frequency

Middle

Highest

Lowest

Culture period

Shortest

Middle

Longest

Proliferation capability

Lowest

Middle

Highest

Multiple differentiation capacity

Tri-lineage differentiation

Tri-lineage differentiation

No adipogenic differentiation

Without differences

Morphology, immune phenotype (surface protein expression)