Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on April 5, 2008
Rheumatology 2008 47(8):1137-1143; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken114
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Synovial fluid-derived mesenchymal stem cells increase after intra-articular ligament injury in humans
1Section of Orthopedic Surgery, Graduate School, 2Center of Excellence Program for Frontier Research on Molecular Destruction and Reconstruction of Tooth and Bone, 3Section of Cartilage Regeneration, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University and 4Department of Reproductive Biology and Pathology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.
Correspondence to: I. Sekiya, Section of Cartilage Regeneration, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan. E-mail: sekiya.orj{at}tmd.ac.jp
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Objective. The existence of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in SF was previously reported. However, the behaviour and properties of MSCs derived from SF have not been fully elucidated.
Methods. Human SFs were obtained from 19 knee joints with anterior cruciate ligament injury around the time of reconstruction surgery, and from three healthy volunteers. SF was plated, cultured and examined for colony-forming number, in vitro differentiation, surface epitopes and gene profiles. Also, rabbit synovium-MSCs were injected into the knee joint in a rabbit partial anterior cruciate ligament defect model, and the injected cells were traced.
Results. SF-MSCs from IA ligament injury patients were 100 times more in number than those from healthy volunteers. Total colony number was positively correlated with post-injury period. No significant differences were observed among the cells derived from SF around the time of the surgery in relation to surface epitopes and differentiation potentials. Cluster analysis of gene profiles demonstrated that SF-MSCs were more similar to synovium MSCs than bone marrow MSCs. In rabbit experiments, the MSCs injected into the knee in which IA ligament was partially defective were observed more on the defected area than on the intact area of the ligament at 24 h.
Conclusion. We demonstrated that SF-MSCs, similar to synovium MSCs, increased in number after IA ligament injury and surgery without marked alteration of the properties.
KEY WORDS: Synovial fluid, Synovial fluid-mesenchymal stem cells, Synovium mesenchymal stem cells, Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, Intra-articular ligament injury, Kinetics
Submitted 2 October 2007;
revised version accepted 15 February 2008.
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