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TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A
Volume 15, Issue 9, Pages 2687-2698Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2008.0621
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50673041, 30771036]
- Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation [BK2007144]
- National Basic Research Foundation of China [2006CB503909, 2006CB503908]
- Chinese Ministry of Education
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Recently, bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been paid more attention for cartilage regeneration. This study evaluated the potential of using MSCs seeded in plasmid transforming growth factor beta 1 (pTGF-beta 1)-activated three-dimensional chitosan/gelatin scaffolds for improving cartilage repair in vivo. Significant cell proliferation and transforming growth factor b1 protein expression were observed in vitro in pTGF-beta 1-activated scaffolds. Transforming growth factor beta 1-activated scaffolds showed high collagen type II and aggrecan expression and low collagen type I expression during in vitro cultivation. MSC-based pTGF-beta 1-activated scaffolds also exhibited cartilage histology with high secretion of collagen type II in vitro under the stimulation of pTGF-beta 1. In rabbits with full-thickness cartilage defects, the implantation of MSC-based pTGF-beta 1-activated scaffolds not only significantly promoted chondrogenic differentiation of MSCs and hyalin-like cartilage matrix synthesis, but also remarkably improved the overall repair of rabbit cartilage defects and exhibited favorable tissue integrity at 10 weeks postsurgery. These results suggest that MSC-based localized pTGF-beta 1-activated scaffolds have potential applications for in vivo cartilage repair.
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