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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 78, Issue 1, Pages 79-91Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-020-03585-w
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Extracellular vesicle engineering; MicroRNA delivery; Cell niche engineering; Osteoarthritis
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Osteoarthritis is a common chronic disease that can be treated by regulating gene expression using microRNAs. Engineering extracellular vesicles could be an efficient treatment method for delivering microRNAs to save cartilage tissue.
Worldwide, osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common chronic diseases. In OA, profiling gene expression changes occur and cartilage tissue homeostasis is lost. Suggestions for OA treatment include regulation of gene expressions via the use of microRNAs (miRNAs). However, problems exist with the use of miRNAs, the most important of which is the delivery of sufficient amounts of effective miRNAs to save cartilage tissue. The engineering of extracellular vesicles (EVs) with the use of advanced techniques would be an efficient OA treatment. Therefore, we discuss the importance of miRNAs in terms of cartilage tissue regeneration and review recent advances in production of enriched EVs and miRNA delivery by EVs for future clinical applications.
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