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. 2019 Jun:99:541-551.
doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2019.01.115. Epub 2019 Jan 26.

Repair of osteochondral defects using injectable chitosan-based hydrogel encapsulated synovial fluid-derived mesenchymal stem cells in a rabbit model

Zhaofeng Jia  1 , Feiyan Zhu  2 , Xingfu Li  2 , Qian Liang  1 , Zhenjian Zhuo  3 , Jianghong Huang  2 , Li Duan  2 , Jianyi Xiong  4 , Daping Wang  5
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Repair of osteochondral defects using injectable chitosan-based hydrogel encapsulated synovial fluid-derived mesenchymal stem cells in a rabbit model

Zhaofeng Jia et al. Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl. 2019 Jun.

Abstract

The regeneration of hyaline articular cartilage remains a major challenge due to the limited potential for cartilage to self-repair. Mesenchymal stem cell and hydrogel scaffold-based cartilage tissue engineering is a promising technique for articular cartilage therapy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of rabbit synovial fluid mesenchymal stem cells (rbSF-MSCs) encapsulated in an injectable chitosan-based hydrogel to repair full-thickness cartilage defects in femoral patellar grooves in rabbits. The rbSF-MSCs were obtained from rabbit synovial fluid and the surface markers of rbSF-MSCs were coincidental to the identification criteria of MSCs according to flow cytometry. The rbSF-MSCs were able to differentiate into osteogenic, adipogenic and chondrogenic lineages. In the present study, rbSF-MSCs encapsulated in glycol chitosan (GC) and benzaldehyde capped poly (ethylene oxide) (OHC-PEO-CHO) hydrogel were introduced into rabbits to repair articular cartilage defects. The modulus of the hydrogel could be regulated by the concentrations of GC and OHC-PEO-CHO and the hydrogel has a good biocompatibility to rbSF-MSCs. Assessment of in vivo repair indicates using hydrogel/rbSF-MSCs was superior to using the hydrogel scaffold only and the untreated control based on gross appearance and histological grading and evaluation. These preliminary findings suggest using the injectable chitosan-based hydrogel as a scaffold and rbSF-MSCs as seed cells is an alternative for tissue engineering of in vivo treatments for cartilage defects and these rbSF-MSCs allografts may be promising for use in clinical applications.

Keywords: Cartilage regeneration; Chondrogenic differentiation; Injectable hydrogel; Mesenchymal stem cells; Rabbit synovial fluid.

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