Knee osteoarthritis: epidemiology, pathogenesis, and mesenchymal stem cells: what else is new? An update

R Giorgino, D Albano, S Fusco, GM Peretti… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic disease and the most common orthopedic disorder. A vast
majority of the social OA burden is related to hips and knees. The prevalence of knee OA …

Nrf2-mediated anti-inflammatory polarization of macrophages as therapeutic targets for osteoarthritis

L Wang, C He - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Macrophages are the most abundant immune cells within the synovial joints, and also the
main innate immune effector cells triggering the initial inflammatory responses in the …

[HTML][HTML] Osteoarthritis year in review 2020: biology

MHJ van den Bosch - Osteoarthritis and cartilage, 2021 - Elsevier
This year in review about osteoarthritis biology highlights a selection of articles published
between the 2019 and 2020 Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World …

Senescence in osteoarthritis: from mechanism to potential treatment

Y Liu, Z Zhang, T Li, H Xu, H Zhang - Arthritis Research & Therapy, 2022 - Springer
Osteoarthritis (OA) is an age-related cartilage degenerative disease, and chondrocyte
senescence has been extensively studied in recent years. Increased numbers of senescent …

An emerging target in the battle against osteoarthritis: macrophage polarization

Y Sun, Z Zuo, Y Kuang - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most prevalent chronic joint diseases worldwide, which
causes a series of problems, such as joint pain, muscle atrophy, and joint deformities …

DAMPs and DAMP-sensing receptors in inflammation and diseases

M Ma, W Jiang, R Zhou - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are endogenous danger molecules
produced in cellular damage or stress, and they can activate the innate immune system …

Immunoregulatory paracrine effect of mesenchymal stem cells and mechanism in the treatment of osteoarthritis

X Zhang, T Liu, C Ran, W Wang, F Piao… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease caused by chronic inflammation that
damages articular cartilage. At present, the treatment of OA includes drug therapy to relieve …

Small extracellular vesicles from hypoxic mesenchymal stem cells alleviate intervertebral disc degeneration by delivering miR-17-5p

ZM Zhou, JP Bao, X Peng, JW Gao, VLF Cabral… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Minimally invasive repair strategies are a very promising approach for the treatment of
intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD). In recent years, small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) …

Phenotype diversity of macrophages in osteoarthritis: implications for development of macrophage modulating therapies

NV Mushenkova, NG Nikiforov… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chronic inflammation is implicated in numerous human pathologies. In particular, low-grade
inflammation is currently recognized as an important mechanism of osteoarthritis (OA), at …

Proteoglycans in Toll-like receptor responses and innate immunity

S Garantziotis, RC Savani - American Journal of Physiology …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is an active and dynamic feature of tissues that not only
provides gross structure but also plays key roles in cellular responses. The ever-changing …