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ReviewInternational journal of experimental pathology2012

Cell sources for the regeneration of articular cartilage: the past, the horizon and the future.

Rachel A Oldershaw

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Review in International journal of experimental pathology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Rachel A OldershawNorth East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI), Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. rachel.oldershaw@ncl.ac.uk

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Avascular, aneural articular cartilage has a low capacity for self-repair and as a consequence is highly susceptible to degradative diseases such as osteoarthritis. Thus the development of cell-based therapies that repair focal defects in otherwise healthy articular cartilage is an important research target, aiming both to delay the onset of degradative diseases and to decrease the need for joint replacement surgery. This review will discuss the cell sources which are currently being investigated for the generation of chondrogenic cells. Autologous chondrocyte implantation using chondrocytes expanded ex vivo was the first chondrogenic cellular therapy to be used clinically. However, limitations in expansion potential have led to the investigation of adult mesenchymal stem cells as an alternative cell source and these therapies are beginning to enter clinical trials. The chondrogenic potential of human embryonic stem cells will also be discussed as a developmentally relevant cell source, which has the potential to generate chondrocytes with phenotype closer to that of articular cartilage. The clinical application of these chondrogenic cells is much further away as protocols and tissue engineering strategies require additional optimization. The efficacy of these cell types in the regeneration of articular cartilage tissue that is capable of withstanding biomechanical loading will be evaluated according to the developing regulatory framework to determine the most appropriate cellular therapy for adoption across an expanding patient population.

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Cartilage, ArticularCell DifferentiationCell LineageChondrocytesChondrogenesisEmbryonic Stem CellsHumansMesenchymal Stem CellsPluripotent Stem CellsRegenerationStem CellsStem Cell Transplantation

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PMID23075006
PMCPMC3521894

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