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Tissue Eng Regen Med ; 20(7): 1041-1052, 2023 12.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37861960

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common degenerative joint disease without an ultimate treatment. In a search for novel approaches, tissue engineering (TE) has shown great potential to be an effective way for hyaline cartilage regeneration and repair in advanced stages of OA. Recently, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been appointed to be essential stem cells for degenerative disease treatment because they allow a personalized medicine approach. For clinical translation, bioreactors in combination with iPSCs-engineerd cartilage could match patients needs, serve as platform for large-scale patient specific cartilage production, and be a tool for patient OA modelling and drug screening. Furthermore, to minimize in vivo experiments and improve cell differentiation and cartilage extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition, TE combines existing approaches with bioreactors. METHODS: This review summarizes the current understanding of bioreactors and the necessary parameters when they are intended for cartilage TE, focusing on the potential use of iPSCs. RESULTS: Bioreactors intended for cartilage TE must resemble the joint cavity niche. However, recreating human synovial joints is not trivial because the interactions between various stimuli are not entirely understood. CONCLUSION: The use of mechanical and electrical stimulation to differentiate iPSCs, and maintain and test chondrocytes are key stimuli influencing hyaline cartilage homeostasis. Incorporating these stimuli to bioreactors can positively impact cartilage TE approaches and their possibility for posterior translation into the clinics.


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Cartilage, Articular , Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells , Osteoarthritis , Humans , Osteoarthritis/therapy , Chondrocytes , Bioreactors
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Nano Lett ; 23(18): 8406-8410, 2023 09 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37676737

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Diamond-based T1 relaxometry is a new technique that allows nanoscale magnetic resonance measurements. Here we present its first application in patient samples. More specifically, we demonstrate that relaxometry can determine the free radical load in samples from arthritis patients. We found that we can clearly differentiate between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis patients in both the synovial fluid itself and cells derived from it. Furthermore, we tested how synovial fluid and its cells respond to piroxicam, a common nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It is known that this drug leads to a reduction in reactive oxygen species production in fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS). Here, we investigated the formation of free radicals specifically. While FLS from osteoarthritis patients showed a drastic decrease in the free radical load, cells from rheumatoid arthritis retained a similar radical load after treatment. This offers a possible explanation for why piroxicam is more beneficial for patients with osteoarthritis than those with rheumatoid arthritis.


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Arthritis, Rheumatoid , Osteoarthritis , Humans , Synovial Fluid , Synovial Membrane/pathology , Piroxicam/therapeutic use , Cells, Cultured , Arthritis, Rheumatoid/diagnostic imaging , Arthritis, Rheumatoid/drug therapy , Arthritis, Rheumatoid/pathology , Osteoarthritis/diagnostic imaging , Osteoarthritis/drug therapy , Osteoarthritis/pathology , Fibroblasts/pathology
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