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The clinical potential of meniscal progenitor cells (2024)
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Yan, W., Wang, J., Fan, P., Roberts, S., Wright, K., & Zhang, Z. (2024). The clinical potential of meniscal progenitor cells. Journal of Cartilage & Joint Preservation (JCJP), 100166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjp.2024.100166

Introduction The meniscus is an important cushioning structure of the knee joint, the maintenance of its normal structure and function plays a crucial role in protecting the joint from early degeneration. Stem/pro... Read More about The clinical potential of meniscal progenitor cells.

PROTEOMIC IDENTIFICATION OF PREDICTIVE AUTOLOGOUS CHONDROCYTE IMPLANTATION BIOMARKERS IN PLASMA (2023)
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Hulme, C., Roberts, S., Gallagher, P., Jermin, P., & Wright, K. (2023). PROTEOMIC IDENTIFICATION OF PREDICTIVE AUTOLOGOUS CHONDROCYTE IMPLANTATION BIOMARKERS IN PLASMA. Orthopaedic Proceedings, 105-B(SUPP_9), 76-76. https://doi.org/10.1302/1358-992x.2023.9.076

Stratification is required to ensure that only those patients likely to benefit, receive Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI); ideally by assessing a biomarker in the blood. This study aimed to assess differences in the plasma proteome of indivi... Read More about PROTEOMIC IDENTIFICATION OF PREDICTIVE AUTOLOGOUS CHONDROCYTE IMPLANTATION BIOMARKERS IN PLASMA.

Osteochondral Lesions of the Ankle Treated with Bone Marrow Concentrate with Hyaluronan and Fibrin: A Single-Centre Study. (2022)
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Abas, S., Kuiper, J. H., Roberts, S., McCarthy, H., Williams, M., Bing, A., …Makwana, N. (2022). Osteochondral Lesions of the Ankle Treated with Bone Marrow Concentrate with Hyaluronan and Fibrin: A Single-Centre Study. Cells, 11(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11040629

Osteochondral defects of the ankle (OCD) are being increasingly identified as a clinically significant consequence of injury to the ankle, with the potential to lead to osteoarthritis if left untreated. The aim of this retrospective cohort study was... Read More about Osteochondral Lesions of the Ankle Treated with Bone Marrow Concentrate with Hyaluronan and Fibrin: A Single-Centre Study..

An In Vitro System to Study the Effect of Subchondral Bone Health on Articular Cartilage Repair in Humans. (2021)
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Wright, K., Roberts, S., & Kuiper, J. (2021). An In Vitro System to Study the Effect of Subchondral Bone Health on Articular Cartilage Repair in Humans. Cells, https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10081903

Chondrocyte-based cartilage repair strategies, such as articular chondrocyte implantation, are widely used, but few studies addressed the communication between native subchondral bone cells and the transplanted chondrocytes. An indirect co-culture mo... Read More about An In Vitro System to Study the Effect of Subchondral Bone Health on Articular Cartilage Repair in Humans..

Perlecan in the Natural and Cell Therapy Repair of Human Adult Articular Cartilage: Can Modifications in This Proteoglycan Be a Novel Therapeutic Approach? (2021)
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Garcia, J., McCarthy, H. S., Kuiper, J. H., Melrose, J., & Roberts, S. (2021). Perlecan in the Natural and Cell Therapy Repair of Human Adult Articular Cartilage: Can Modifications in This Proteoglycan Be a Novel Therapeutic Approach?. Biomolecules, 11(1), Article ARTN 92. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom11010092

Articular cartilage is considered to have limited regenerative capacity, which has led to the search for therapies to limit or halt the progression of its destruction. Perlecan, a multifunctional heparan sulphate (HS) proteoglycan, promotes embryonic... Read More about Perlecan in the Natural and Cell Therapy Repair of Human Adult Articular Cartilage: Can Modifications in This Proteoglycan Be a Novel Therapeutic Approach?.

Characterization of regional meniscal cell and chondrocyte phenotypes and chondrogenic differentiation with histological analysis in osteoarthritic donor-matched tissues (2020)
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Wang, J., Roberts, S., Kuiper, J., Zhang, W., Garcia, J., Cui, Z., & Wright, K. (2020). Characterization of regional meniscal cell and chondrocyte phenotypes and chondrogenic differentiation with histological analysis in osteoarthritic donor-matched tissues. Scientific reports, 10, Article 21658. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78757-6

Meniscus degeneration is closely related to the progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA). However, there is currently a lack of quantitative and objective metrics to assess OA meniscal cell phenotypes. In this study we investigated the phenotypic mark... Read More about Characterization of regional meniscal cell and chondrocyte phenotypes and chondrogenic differentiation with histological analysis in osteoarthritic donor-matched tissues.

The Use of Technology in the Subcategorisation of Osteoarthritis: a Delphi Study Approach (2020)
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Mennan, C., Hopkins, T., Channon, A., Elliott, M., Johnstone, B., Kadir, T., …Roberts, S. (2020). The Use of Technology in the Subcategorisation of Osteoarthritis: a Delphi Study Approach. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 2(3), Article 100081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocarto.2020.100081

Objective This UK-wide OATech+ Network consensus study utilised a Delphi approach to discern levels of awareness across an expert panel regarding the role of existing and novel technologies in osteoarthritis research. To direct future cross-disciplin... Read More about The Use of Technology in the Subcategorisation of Osteoarthritis: a Delphi Study Approach.

Injected human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells do not appear to elicit an inflammatory response in a murine model of osteoarthritis (2020)
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Perry, J., McCarthy, H., Bou-Gharios, G., van't Hof, R., Milner, P., Mennan, C., & Roberts, S. (2020). Injected human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells do not appear to elicit an inflammatory response in a murine model of osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open, 2(2), 100044 - 100044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocarto.2020.100044

Objective This study investigated the effect of hUC-MSCs on osteoarthritis (OA) progression in a xenogeneic model. Design Male, 10 week-old C57Bl/6 mice underwent sham surgery (n=15) or partial medial meniscectomy (PMM;n=76). 5x105 hUC-MSCs (from 3 d... Read More about Injected human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells do not appear to elicit an inflammatory response in a murine model of osteoarthritis.

Human Articular Chondrocytes Retain Their Phenotype in Sustained Hypoxia While Normoxia Promotes Their Immunomodulatory Potential (2019)
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Mennan, C., Garcia, J., McCarthy, H., Owen, S., Perry, J., Wright, K., …Roberts, S. (2019). Human Articular Chondrocytes Retain Their Phenotype in Sustained Hypoxia While Normoxia Promotes Their Immunomodulatory Potential. Cartilage, 10(4), 467-479. https://doi.org/10.1177/1947603518769714

Objective To assess the phenotype of human articular chondrocytes cultured in normoxia (21% O2) or continuous hypoxia (2% O2). Design Chondrocytes were extracted from patients undergoing total knee replacement (n = 5) and cultured in ~21% (normo... Read More about Human Articular Chondrocytes Retain Their Phenotype in Sustained Hypoxia While Normoxia Promotes Their Immunomodulatory Potential.

Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stromal cells do not evoke an immune response in the partial medial meniscectomy murine model of osteoarthritis (2019)
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Perry, J., Mennan, C., McCarthy, H., Bou-Gharios, G., Hof, R. V. '., Milner, P., …Roberts, S. (2019). Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stromal cells do not evoke an immune response in the partial medial meniscectomy murine model of osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 27(S1), S438-S439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2019.02.468

A comprehensive characterisation of large-scale expanded human bone marrow and umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells. (2019)
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Mennan, C., Garcia, J., Roberts, S., Hulme, C., & Wright, K. (2019). A comprehensive characterisation of large-scale expanded human bone marrow and umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells. Stem Cell Research and Therapy, 10, Article 99. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13287-019-1202-4

BACKGROUND: The manufacture of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) for clinical use needs to be cost effective, safe and scaled up. Current methods of expansion on tissue culture plastic are labour-intensive and involve several 'open' procedures.... Read More about A comprehensive characterisation of large-scale expanded human bone marrow and umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells..

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Parameters at 1 Year Correlate With Clinical Outcomes Up to 17 Years After Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (2018)
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McCarthy, H. S., McCall, I. W., Williams, J. M., Mennan, C., Dugard, M. N., Richardson, J. B., & Roberts, S. (2018). Magnetic Resonance Imaging Parameters at 1 Year Correlate With Clinical Outcomes Up to 17 Years After Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/2325967118788280

Background: The ability to predict the long-term success of surgical treatment in orthopaedics is invaluable, particularly in clinical trials. The quality of repair tissue formed 1 year after autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) in the knee was... Read More about Magnetic Resonance Imaging Parameters at 1 Year Correlate With Clinical Outcomes Up to 17 Years After Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation.

Two independent proteomic approaches provide a comprehensive analysis of the synovial fluid proteome response to Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (2018)
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Hulme, C., Wilson, E., Fuller, H., Roberts, S., Richardson, J., Gallacher, P., …Wright, K. (2018). Two independent proteomic approaches provide a comprehensive analysis of the synovial fluid proteome response to Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 20, Article 87. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-018-1573-4

Background Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) has a failure rate of approximately 20%, but it is yet to be fully understood why. Biomarkers are needed that can pre-operatively predict in which patients it is likely to fail, so that alternativ... Read More about Two independent proteomic approaches provide a comprehensive analysis of the synovial fluid proteome response to Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation.

Assessing The Characteristics Of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Derived From Bone Marrow And Umbilical Cord Following Expansion In The Quantum® Hollow-fibre Bioreactor System (2018)
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Mennan, C., Roberts, S., Garcia, J., Hulme, C., & Wright, K. (2018). Assessing The Characteristics Of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Derived From Bone Marrow And Umbilical Cord Following Expansion In The Quantum® Hollow-fibre Bioreactor System. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 26(S1), S146-S147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2018.02.316

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Assessment of candidate predictive protein biomarkers for microfracture and osteotomy (2018)
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Hulme, C., Richardson, J., Gallacher, P., Roberts, S., & Wright, K. (2018). Assessment of candidate predictive protein biomarkers for microfracture and osteotomy. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 26(S1), S191-S192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2018.02.410

PlumX Metrics Purpose: Biomarkers that can predict clinical outcome for surgeries to prevent the progression of osteoarthritis (OA) are needed to ensure patients can be better stratified to receive the most appropriate treatment. We have previousl... Read More about Assessment of candidate predictive protein biomarkers for microfracture and osteotomy.

Autologous chondrocyte implantation- derived synovial fluids display distinct responder and non-responder proteomic profiles (2017)
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Hulme, C., Wilson, E., Fuller, H., Roberts, S., Richardson, J., Gallacher, P., …Wright, K. (2017). Autologous chondrocyte implantation- derived synovial fluids display distinct responder and non-responder proteomic profiles. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 19, Article 150. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-017-1336-7

Background Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) can be used in the treatment of focal cartilage injuries to prevent the onset of osteoarthritis (OA). However, we are yet to understand fully why some individuals do not respond well to this interv... Read More about Autologous chondrocyte implantation- derived synovial fluids display distinct responder and non-responder proteomic profiles.

Efficacy and safety of autologous cell therapies for knee cartilage defects (autologous stem cells, chondrocytes or the two): randomized controlled trial design. (2017)
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Richardson, J. B., Wright, K. T., Wales, J., Herman Kuiper, J., McCarthy, H. S., Gallacher, P., …Roberts, S. (2017). Efficacy and safety of autologous cell therapies for knee cartilage defects (autologous stem cells, chondrocytes or the two): randomized controlled trial design. Regenerative Medicine, 12(5), 493-501. https://doi.org/10.2217/rme-2017-0032

AIM: The main aim of this trial is to test the safety and efficacy of autologous stromal/stem cells, chondrocytes or the two combined in the treatment of knee cartilage defects. PATIENTS & METHODS: Patients with symptomatic chondral/osteochondral def... Read More about Efficacy and safety of autologous cell therapies for knee cartilage defects (autologous stem cells, chondrocytes or the two): randomized controlled trial design..