ArticleScience advances2020
Combinatorial screening of biochemical and physical signals for phenotypic regulation of stem cell-based cartilage tissue engineering.
Article in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Preparation of hydrogel microsphere and its application in articular cartilage injury.Materials today. Bio · 2025Review
- Effects of Hydrogels on Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells Paracrine Activity and Extracellular Vesicles Production.Journal of extracellular vesicles · 2025Review
- Targeting Chondrocyte Hypertrophy as Strategies for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Modern experimental methods for assessing the effectiveness of tissue-engineered products for hyaline cartilage regeneration.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Review
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- Synovial joint-on-a-chip for modeling arthritis: progress, pitfalls, and potential.Trends in biotechnology · 2023Review
- Double-edged role of mechanical stimuli and underlying mechanisms in cartilage tissue engineering.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Review
- The role of the immune microenvironment in bone, cartilage, and soft tissue regeneration: from mechanism to therapeutic opportunity.Military Medical Research · 2022Review
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- Tuning the Degradation Rate of Alginate-Based Bioinks for Bioprinting Functional Cartilage Tissue.Biomedicines · 2022Article
- Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Miniature Joint System for Disease Modeling and Drug Testing.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- Integrated regulation of chondrogenic differentiation in mesenchymal stem cells and differentiation of cancer cells.Cancer cell international · 2022Review
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17 authors at 8 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Despite great progress in biomaterial design strategies for replacing damaged articular cartilage, prevention of stem cell-derived chondrocyte hypertrophy and resulting inferior tissue formation is still a critical challenge. Here, by using engineered biomaterials and a high-throughput system for screening of combinatorial cues in cartilage microenvironments, we demonstrate that biomaterial cross-linking density that regulates matrix degradation and stiffness-together with defined presentation of growth factors, mechanical stimulation, and arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) peptides-can guide human mesenchymal stem cell (hMSC) differentiation into articular or hypertrophic cartilage phenotypes. Faster-degrading, soft matrices promoted articular cartilage tissue formation of hMSCs by inducing their proliferation and maturation, while slower-degrading, stiff matrices promoted cells to differentiate into hypertrophic chondrocytes through Yes-associated protein (YAP)-dependent mechanotransduction. in vitro and in vivo chondrogenesis studies also suggest that down-regulation of the Wingless and INT-1 (WNT) signaling pathway is required for better quality articular cartilage-like tissue production.
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