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Evidence of a Viable Pool of Stem Cells within Human Osteoarthritic Cartilage
5 Aug 2014
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OBJECTIVES: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a debilitating disease affecting more than 4 million people in the United Kingdom. Despite its prevalence, there is no successful cell-based therapy currently used to treat patients whose cartilage is deemed irrecoverable. The present study aimed to isolate stem cells from tibial plateaux cartilage obtained from patients who underwent total knee replacements for OA and...
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