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ReviewCartilage2022

A Fresh Glimpse into Cartilage Immune Privilege.

Carissa Garrity, Boaz Arzi, Brian Haus, Cassandra A Lee, Natalia Vapniarsky

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Review in Cartilage, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. The CNS Meninges and the Synovial Joint: Parallel Immunological Structures in Autoimmune Disease.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026
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  3. Physeal Allograft Transfer for Physeal Bars: A Safety and Feasibility Study in a Domestic Swine Model.Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Carissa GarrityDepartment of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Boaz ArziDepartment of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Brian HausDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Cassandra A LeeDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Natalia VapniarskyDepartment of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3239-6233

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The increasing prevalence of degenerative cartilage disorders in young patients is a growing public concern worldwide. Cartilage's poor innate regenerative capacity has inspired the exploration and development of cartilage replacement treatments such as tissue-engineered cartilages and osteochondral implants as potential solutions to cartilage loss. The clinical application of tissue-engineered implants is hindered by the lack of long-term follow-up demonstrating efficacy, biocompatibility, and bio-integration. The historically reported immunological privilege of cartilage tissue was based on histomorphological observations pointing out the lack of vascularity and the presence of a tight extracellular matrix. However, clinical studies in humans and animals do not unequivocally support the immune-privilege theory. More in-depth studies on cartilage immunology are needed to make clinical advances such as tissue engineering more applicable. This review analyzes the literature that supports and opposes the concept that cartilage is an immune-privileged tissue and provides insight into mechanisms conferring various degrees of immune privilege to other, more in-depth studied tissues such as testis, eyes, brain, and cancer.

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CartilageImmune PrivilegeAnimalsExtracellular MatrixHumansMaleTissue Engineeringallogeniccartilage immunologyimmunological rejectionMHCT celltissue engineering

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PMID36250484
PMCPMC9924976

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