Table 1.

Summary of age-related characteristics of ASC in different studies

Study	No. of donors	Age range	Culture condition	Proliferation	Osteo-genesis	Adipo-genesis	Chondro-genesis	Origin of ASC
Van Harmelen et al. 2004 [22]	29	17-61	DMEM/F12 + 10%FCS	↓		↓		Abdominal subcutaneous fat and omental fat
de Girolamo et al. 2009 [24]	26	21-68	DMEM + 10%FBS		↓	↓		Abdominal subcutaneous fat
Zhu et al. 2009 [23]	26	20-58	DMEM + 10%FBS	→	↑	→		Abdominal subcutaneous fat
Alt et al. 2012 [3]	40	15-71	α-MEM + 20% FBS	↓	↓	↓	↓	Abdominal subcutaneous fat
Chen et al. 2012 [20]	22	36-71	KFSM + NAC + 5% FBS	→	→			Gluteal fat
Present study	27	30-60	KFSM + NAC + 5% FBS	→	→	↓	→	Abdominal subcutaneous fat

NAC N-acetyl cysteine.

KFSM keratinocyte serum free medium.

FBS fetal bovine serum.

FCS fetal calf serum.