ArticleFrontiers in immunology2022
Cytokine-primed umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells enhanced therapeutic effects of extracellular vesicles on osteoarthritic chondrocytes.
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- Mesenchymal stromal cells-derived extracellular vesicles in cartilage regeneration: potential and limitations.Stem cell research & therapy · 2025Pooled it
- Targeting osteoarthritis with small extracellular vesicle therapy: potential and perspectives.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Pooled it
- From pathogenic to reparative: Context-Dependent function of extracellular vesicles in osteoarthritis.Bioactive materials · 2027Review
- Extracellular vesicles in osteoarthritis: pathological mechanisms, regenerative therapies and clinical translation.Stem cell research & therapy · 2026Review
- Extracellular vesicles from primed Hoffa's fat pad mesenchymal stem/stromal cells in osteoarthritis therapy: effects on cells critical to osteoarthritis progression.Stem cell research & therapy · 2025Article
- The crosstalk among macrophages, chondrocytes and mesenchymal stem cells in osteoarthritis: the role of extracellular vesicles.Stem cell research & therapy · 2025Review
- Exosomes of stem cells: a potential frontier in the treatment of osteoarthritis.Precision clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Biological Nanotherapeutics Derived From Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Mechanisms and Translational Potential in Multisystem Therapies for Regeneration and Oncology.International journal of nanomedicine · 2025Review
- Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases.Pharmaceutics · 2024Review
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- Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Priming and Purification Method Modulate the Impact of Exosomes Derived from Equine Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stromal Cells on Equine Articular Chondrocytes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Conditioned Medium - Is it an Undervalued Lab Waste with the Potential for Osteoarthritis Management?Stem cell reviews and reports · 2023Review
- miRNA-Guided Regulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived from the Umbilical Cord: Paving the Way for Stem-Cell Based Regeneration and Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Therapeutic effects of different intervention forms of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells in the treatment of osteoarthritis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Review
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Abstract
In recent years, extracellular vesicles (EVs) secreted by mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have emerged as a potential cell-free therapy against osteoarthritis (OA). Thus, we investigated the therapeutic effects of EVs released by cytokine-primed umbilical cord-derived MSCs (UCMSCs) on osteoarthritic chondrocyte physiology. Priming UCMSCs individually with transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ), interferon alpha (IFNα), or tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) significantly reduced the sorting of miR-181b-3p but not miR-320a-3p; two negative regulators of chondrocyte regeneration, into EVs. However, the EV treatment did not show any significant effect on chondrocyte proliferation. Meanwhile, EVs from both non-priming and cytokine-primed UCMSCs induced migration at later time points of measurement. Moreover, TGFβ-primed UCMSCs secreted EVs that could upregulate the expression of chondrogenesis markers (
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