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01-02-2014 | Review Article
Therapeutic application of mesenchymal stem cells in bone and joint diseases
Authors:
Yi Liu, Jianmei Wu, Youming Zhu, Jinxiang Han
Published in:
Clinical and Experimental Medicine
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Issue 1/2014
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Abstract
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), the non-hematopoietic progenitor cells, are multi-potent stem cells from a variety of tissues with the capability of self-renewal, proliferation, differentiation into multi-lineage cell types, as well as anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory. These properties make MSCs an ideal source of cell therapy in bone and joint diseases. This review describes the advances of animal study and preliminary clinical application in the past few years, related to MSC-based cell therapy in the common bone and joint diseases, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, osteonecrosis of the femoral head and osteogenesis imperfecta. It highlights the promising prospect of MSC in clinical application of bone and joint diseases.