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KNEE SURGERY SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY ARTHROSCOPY
Volume 17, Issue 11, Pages 1289-1297Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-009-0782-4
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Mesenchymal stem cells; Cartilage repair; Cell transplantation; Chondrocytes
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- Mitsukoshi Health and Welfare Foundation
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Articular cartilage injury remains one of the major concerns in orthopaedic surgery. Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) transplantation has been introduced to avoid some of the side effects and complications of current techniques. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on MSC-based cell therapy for articular cartilage repair to determine if it can be an alternative treatment for cartilage injury. MSCs retain both high proliferative potential and multipotentiality, including chondrogenic differentiation potential, and a number of successful results in transplantation of MSCs into cartilage defects have been reported in animal studies. However, the use of MSCs for cartilage repair is still at the stage of preclinical and phase I studies, and no comparative clinical studies have been reported. Therefore, it is difficult to make conclusions in human studies. This requires randomized clinical trials to evaluate the effectiveness of MSC-based cell therapy for cartilage repair.
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