Serum- and Xeno-Free Culture of Human Umbilical Cord Perivascular Cells for Pediatric Heart Valve Tissue Engineering

The proliferative, clonogenic, multilineage differentiation, and extracellular matrix synthesis capacities o fhuman umbilical cord perivascular cells were evaluated in a commercial serum- and xeno-free culture medium on tissue culture polystyrene and benchmarked to adult bone marrow-derived MSCs.