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Characterization of human synovial fluid cells of 26 patients with osteoarthritis knee for cartilage repair therapy.
International journal of rheumatic diseases - 1 Feb 2010
Kurose Rie, Ichinohe Sadafumi, Tajima Goro, Horiuchi Saburo, Kurose Akira, Sawai Takashi, Shimamura Tadashi
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AIM: To investigate the possibility of chondrogenic differentiation and cartilage repair of synovial fluid cells of osteoarthritis (OA) knee. METHODS: Synovial fluids from 26 patients with OA knee were aspirated from each knee joint and cultured in vitro. The morphology of cultured synovial fluid cells, cell proliferation rate, the phenotype, and chondrogenic differentiation were analyzed in in vitro. Also, human...
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