Repair of damaged articular cartilage: current approaches and future directions

EV Medvedeva, EA Grebenik, SN Gornostaeva… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Articular hyaline cartilage is extensively hydrated, but it is neither innervated nor
vascularized, and its low cell density allows only extremely limited self-renewal. Most clinical …

Chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells: challenges and unfulfilled expectations

RA Somoza, JF Welter, D Correa… - Tissue Engineering Part …, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Articular cartilage repair and regeneration provides a substantial challenge in Regenerative
Medicine because of the high degree of morphological and mechanical complexity intrinsic …

[HTML][HTML] Advancements in hydrogel design for articular cartilage regeneration: A comprehensive review

F Hashemi-Afzal, H Fallahi, F Bagheri, MN Collins… - Bioactive Materials, 2025 - Elsevier
This review paper explores the cutting-edge advancements in hydrogel design for articular
cartilage regeneration (CR). Articular cartilage (AC) defects are a common occurrence …

Men and women differ in the biochemical composition of platelet-rich plasma

G **ong, N Lingampalli, JCB Koltsov… - … American journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is widely used for a variety of clinical
applications. However, clinical outcome studies have not consistently shown positive effects …

The superficial zone of articular cartilage

T Saito - Inflammation and Regeneration, 2022 - Springer
The superficial zone of articular cartilage contributes to smooth joint motion through the
production of proteoglycan 4 (PRG4), also known as lubricin. Recent studies indicate novel …

Advances and prospects in biomimetic multilayered scaffolds for articular cartilage regeneration

L Fu, Z Yang, C Gao, H Li, Z Yuan… - Regenerative …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Due to the sophisticated hierarchical structure and limited reparability of articular cartilage
(AC), the ideal regeneration of AC defects has been a major challenge in the field of …

[HTML][HTML] High-precision, gelatin-based, hybrid, bilayer scaffolds using melt electro-writing to repair cartilage injury

Y Han, B Jia, M Lian, B Sun, Q Wu, B Sun, Z Qiao… - Bioactive materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Articular cartilage injury is a common disease in the field of orthopedics. Because cartilage
has poor self-repairing ability, medical intervention is needed. Using melt electro-writing …

Toward regeneration of articular cartilage

M Iwamoto, Y Ohta, C Larmour… - … Research Part C …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Articular cartilage is classified as permanent hyaline cartilage and has significant differences
in structure, extracelluar matrix components, gene expression profile, and mechanical …

Mesenchymal stem cell-based tissue engineering strategies for repair of articular cartilage

TAE Ahmed, MT Hincke - 2014 - digitum.um.es
Restoration of articular cartilage function and structure following pathological or traumatic
damage is still considered a challenging problem in the orthopaedic field. Currently, tissue …

Recent advances in kartogenin for cartilage regeneration

G Cai, W Liu, Y He, J Huang, L Duan… - Journal of drug …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Either osteoarthritis or sports-related injuries can lead to cartilage defects, whereas both
chondrocyte self-renewal and conventional treatments face limitations. In cartilage …