Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2021, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (19): 3071-3076.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.3520

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Application prospects and problems of peripheral blood derived mesenchymal stem cells in cartilage repair of osteoarthritis

Yang Tengyun, Li Yanlin, Liu Dejian, Wang Guoliang   

  1. Department of Sports Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650032, Yunnan Province, China
  • Received:2020-06-04 Revised:2020-06-12 Accepted:2020-07-20 Online:2021-07-09 Published:2021-01-14
  • Contact: Li Yanlin, MD, Professor, Department of Sports Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650032, Yunnan Province, China
  • About author:Yang Tengyun, Department of Sports Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650032, Yunnan Province, China
  • Supported by:
     the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81960409 (to LYL), No. 81760403 (to LYL); the Key Project of Joint Fund between Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology and Kunming Medical University, No. [2017FE467(-007)] (to LYL); the Yunnan Expert Workstation Project, No.2018IC102 (to LYL)

Abstract: BACKGROUND: With the application of tissue engineering technology to the cartilage repair research field in recent years, mesenchymal stem cells as a kind of adult stem cells with the characteristics of self-renewal, strong proliferation ability, clonal cell population and multidirectional differentiation, are ideal seed cells for cartilage repair. Moreover, peripheral blood derived mesenchymal stem cells, due to its conveniently, minimally invasive to the patient, have become the research focus in the field.
OBJECTIVE: To review research status of peripheral blood derived mesenchymal stem cells and their applications in cartilage repair of osteoarthritis, to analyze the main problems of limited clinical application and possible solutions, so as to rationally utilize peripheral blood derived mesenchymal stem cells and find suitable seed cells for the treatment of cartilage injury.
METHODS: Relevant articles collected from PubMed database, Wanfang database and CNKI Chinese journal full-text database were searched. The key words were “peripheral blood derived mesenchymal stem cells, circulating mesenchymal stem cells, cartilage repair, osteoarthritis treatment” in English, and “peripheral blood derived mesenchymal stem cells, circulating mesenchymal stem cells, cartilage repair, osteoarthritis” in Chinese. Finally, 57 articles were included for summary.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The recent research on cartilage tissue engineering has increased significantly and continuously in recent years. Peripheral blood derived mesenchymal stem cells have the advantage of chondrogenesis, can be used as more ideal seed cells in cartilage tissue engineering and have a good clinical application prospect.


Key words: stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells, peripheral blood mesenchymal stem cells, osteoarthritis, cartilage injury, cartilage hypertrophy, cartilage repair

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