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Journal Article
Treatment with embryonic stem-like cells into osteochondral defects in sheep femoral condyles
2014
Overview
BACKGROUND: Articular cartilage has poor intrinsic capacity for regeneration because of its avascularity and very slow cellular turnover. Defects deriving from trauma or joint disease tend to be repaired with fibrocartilage rather than hyaline cartilage. Consequent degenerative processes are related to the width and depth of the defect. Since mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) deriving from patients affected by osteoarthritis have a lower proliferative and chondrogenic activity, the systemic or local delivery of heterologous cells may enhance regeneration or inhibit the progressive loss of joint tissue. Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are very promising, since they can self-renew for prolonged periods without differentiation and can differentiate into tissues from all the 3 germ layers. To date only a few experiments have used ESCs for the study of the cartilage regeneration in animal models and most of them used laboratory animals. Sheep, due to their anatomical, physiological and immunological similarity to humans, represent a valid model for translational studies. This experiment aimed to evaluate if the local delivery of male sheep embryonic stem-like (ES-like) cells into osteochondral defects in the femoral condyles of adult sheep can enhance the regeneration of articular cartilage. Twenty-two ewes were divided into 5 groups (1, 2, 6, 12 and 24 months after surgery). Newly formed tissue was evaluated by macroscopic, histological, immunohistochemical (collagen type II) and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) assays. RESULTS: Regenerated tissue was ultimately evaluated on 17 sheep. Samples engrafted with ES-like cells had significantly better histologic evidence of regeneration with respect to empty defects, used as controls, at all time periods. CONCLUSIONS: Histological assessments demonstrated that the local delivery of ES-like cells into osteochondral defects in sheep femoral condyles enhances the regeneration of the articular hyaline cartilage, without signs of immune rejection or teratoma for 24 months after engraftment.
Publisher
Springer-Verlag,BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Analysis
/ Animals
/ Cartilage Diseases - therapy
/ Cartilage Diseases - veterinary
/ Cartilage, Articular - growth & development
/ Cartilage, Articular - pathology
/ Cell biology and stem cell research
/ Collagen
/ Defects
/ ewes
/ Female
/ fluorescence in situ hybridization
/ humans
/ Male
/ Medicine
/ Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation - veterinary
/ Mesenchymal Stromal Cells - physiology
/ patients
/ Sheep
/ Studies
/ Surgery
/ Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science
/ Zoology
