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Long-term repair of porcine articular cartilage using cryopreservable, clinically compatible human embryonic stem cell-derived chondrocytes

Petrigliano FA, Liu NQ, Lee S, Tassey J, Sarkar A, Lin Y, Li L, Yu Y, Geng D, Zhang J, Shkhyan R, Bogdanov J, Van Handel B, Ferguson GB, Lee Y, Hinderer S, Tseng K, Kavanaugh A, Crump JG, Pyle AD, Schenke-Layland K, Billi F, Wang L, Lieberman J, Hurtig M, Evseenko D.
Preprint from
bioRxiv
29 May 2021
PPR
PPR349928
Abstract
Osteoarthritis (OA) impacts hundreds of millions of people worldwide, with those affected incurring significant physical and financial burdens. Injuries such as focal defects to the articular surface are a major contributing risk factor for the development of OA. Current cartilage repair strategies are moderately effective at reducing pain but often replace damaged tissue with biomechanically inferior fibrocartilage. Here we describe the development, transcriptomic ontogenetic characterization and quality assessment at the single cell level, as well as the scaled manufacturing of an allogeneic human pluripotent stem cell-derived articular chondrocyte formulation that exhibits long-term functional repair of porcine articular cartilage. These results define a new potential clinical paradigm for articular cartilage repair and mitigation of the associated risk of OA.