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Jan Kuiper's Outputs (58)

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..

Does statin-treated hyperlipidemia affect rotator cuff healing or muscle fatty infiltration after rotator cuff repair? (2021)
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Amit, P., Kuiper, J. H., James, S., & Snow, M. (2021). Does statin-treated hyperlipidemia affect rotator cuff healing or muscle fatty infiltration after rotator cuff repair?. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, 2465-2474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jse.2021.05.014

PURPOSE: Hyperlipidemia is linked to poor tendon to bone healing and progression of fatty infiltration after rotator cuff repair. Statins effectively treat hyperlipidemia, but it is unknown if they have any potential detrimental effects following rot... Read More about Does statin-treated hyperlipidemia affect rotator cuff healing or muscle fatty infiltration after rotator cuff repair?.

Mechano-driven regeneration predicts response variations in large animal model based on scaffold implantation site and individual mechano-sensitivity (2021)
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Kuiper. (2021). Mechano-driven regeneration predicts response variations in large animal model based on scaffold implantation site and individual mechano-sensitivity. BONE, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2020.115769

It is well founded that the mechanical environment may regulate bone regeneration in orthopedic applications. The purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanical contributions of the scaffold and the host to bone regeneration, in terms of subj... Read More about Mechano-driven regeneration predicts response variations in large animal model based on scaffold implantation site and individual mechano-sensitivity.

Evaluating patient perspectives on participating in scientific research and clinical trials for the treatment of spinal cord injury (2021)
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Bahsoun, S., Kuiper, J., Hulme, C., Twigg, A., El Masri, W., Glass, C., …Wright, K. (2021). Evaluating patient perspectives on participating in scientific research and clinical trials for the treatment of spinal cord injury. Scientific reports, 11, Article 4361. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83211-2

A questionnaire was developed to evaluate patients' perspective on research aimed at improving functions and overcoming complications associated with spinal cord injury (SCI). The first three sections were based on published and validated assessment... Read More about Evaluating patient perspectives on participating in scientific research and clinical trials for the treatment of spinal cord injury.

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?.

Biomechanical Evaluation Comparing Pulvertaft Weave and Side-to-Side Tenorrhaphy Using Porcine Tendons. (2020)
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Kuiper. (2020). Biomechanical Evaluation Comparing Pulvertaft Weave and Side-to-Side Tenorrhaphy Using Porcine Tendons. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2424835520500484

Background: Pulvertaft Weave (PTW) is an established method of tenorrhapy in tendon transfers. Previous studies have suggested that a Side-to-Side (STS) tenorrhapy is easier to perform has the same advantages and has greater load to failure, ultimate... Read More about Biomechanical Evaluation Comparing Pulvertaft Weave and Side-to-Side Tenorrhaphy Using Porcine Tendons..

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.

Scoliosis in paediatric onset spinal cord injuries. (2020)
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Kuiper. (2020). Scoliosis in paediatric onset spinal cord injuries. Spinal Cord, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-020-0418-6

STUDY DESIGN: This is a retrospective longitudinal review. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this review was to identify predictors of developing clinical scoliosis and compare between traumatic and neurological aetiologies of SCI. SETTING: This study was co... Read More about Scoliosis in paediatric onset spinal cord injuries..

The Oswestry-Bristol Classification. (2019)
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Kuiper. (2019). The Oswestry-Bristol Classification. The Bone & Joint Journal, 102 - 107. https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.102B1.BJJ-2019-0366.R3

AIMS: Trochlear dysplasia is a significant risk factor for patellofemoral instability. The Dejour classification is currently considered the standard for classifying trochlear dysplasia, but numerous studies have reported poor reliability on both pla... Read More about The Oswestry-Bristol Classification..

Isolated medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction significantly improved quality of life in patients with recurrent patella dislocation: a response to Hiemstra et al.'s letter to the editor. (2019)
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Kuiper. (2019). Isolated medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction significantly improved quality of life in patients with recurrent patella dislocation: a response to Hiemstra et al.'s letter to the editor. Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 3735 - 3737. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-019-05690-1

Letter to the editor.

Predictors of fracture healing in patients with recalcitrant nonunions treated with autologous culture expanded bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells. (2019)
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Kuiper. (2019). Predictors of fracture healing in patients with recalcitrant nonunions treated with autologous culture expanded bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 1303-1309. https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.24184

The study reports the prospective outcome of treating severe recalcitrant fracture nonunion in patients with autologous bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (BMSC) from 2003 to 2010 and analyze predictors of union. Autologous BMSC were cultu... Read More about Predictors of fracture healing in patients with recalcitrant nonunions treated with autologous culture expanded bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells..

Low failure rate at short term for 40?mm heads and second generation triple annealed HCLPE liners in hybrid Hip Replacements (2019)
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Kuiper. (2019). Low failure rate at short term for 40?mm heads and second generation triple annealed HCLPE liners in hybrid Hip Replacements. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma, 350-357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcot.2017.12.008

Introduction
40?mm large diameter heads offer the advantages of lesser dislocation rates and better stability while highly cross linked polyethylene have lower wear rates than ultra high molecular weight polyethylene. Studies of the survivorship of... Read More about Low failure rate at short term for 40?mm heads and second generation triple annealed HCLPE liners in hybrid Hip Replacements.

Impact of human platelet lysate on the expansion and chondrogenic capacity of cultured human chondrocytes for cartilage cell therapy. (2018)
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Kuiper, J., & Wright, K. (2018). Impact of human platelet lysate on the expansion and chondrogenic capacity of cultured human chondrocytes for cartilage cell therapy. European cells & materials, 255 - 267. https://doi.org/10.22203/eCM.v035a18

High hopes have been pinned on regenerative medicine strategies in order to prevent the progression of cartilage damage to osteoarthritis, particularly by autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI). The loss of chondrocyte phenotype during in vitro mo... Read More about Impact of human platelet lysate on the expansion and chondrogenic capacity of cultured human chondrocytes for cartilage cell therapy..

Impact of human platelet lysate on the expansion and chondrogenic capacity of cultured human chondrocytes for cartilage cell therapy (2018)
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Sykes, J., Kuiper, J., Richardson, J., Wright, K., & Kuiper, N. (2018). Impact of human platelet lysate on the expansion and chondrogenic capacity of cultured human chondrocytes for cartilage cell therapy. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 26(S1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2018.02.221

Purpose
High hopes have been pinned on regenerative medicine strategies to meet the challenge of preventing the progression to osteoarthritis, in particular autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI). The loss of chondrocyte phenotype during in vitro... Read More about Impact of human platelet lysate on the expansion and chondrogenic capacity of cultured human chondrocytes for cartilage cell therapy.

The twin peg Oxford knee — Medium term survivorship and surgical principles (2018)
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Kuiper. (2018). The twin peg Oxford knee — Medium term survivorship and surgical principles. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2018.01.001

A multicentre study of single peg Oxford knees reported failure associated with osteoarthritis progression, femoral component loosening, unexplained pain and meniscal bearing dislocation. Suboptimally positioned femoral components and intraoperative... Read More about The twin peg Oxford knee — Medium term survivorship and surgical principles.

Tendon end separation with loading in an Achilles tendon repair model: comparison of non-absorbable vs. absorbable sutures (2017)
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Kuiper. (2017). Tendon end separation with loading in an Achilles tendon repair model: comparison of non-absorbable vs. absorbable sutures. Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40634-017-0101-9

Background: Rupture of the Achilles tendon often leads to long-term morbidity, particularly calf weakness associated with tendon elongation. Operative repair of Achilles tendon ruptures leads to reduced tendon elongation. Tendon lengthening is a key... Read More about Tendon end separation with loading in an Achilles tendon repair model: comparison of non-absorbable vs. absorbable sutures.

Similar phenotypes of cells in the repair tissues following microfracture or autologous chondrocyte implantation (2017)
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Garcia, J., Hulme, C., Roberts, S., Richardson, J., Kuiper, J., & Wright, K. (2017). Similar phenotypes of cells in the repair tissues following microfracture or autologous chondrocyte implantation. International Journal of Experimental Pathology, 98(3), A23

Introduction

Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) and microfracture are both used in the treatment of cartilage injuries. Previous findings suggest that the efficacy of these two therapies is similar in terms of short-term clinical outcome, h... Read More about Similar phenotypes of cells in the repair tissues following microfracture or autologous chondrocyte implantation.

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..

The absence of detectable ADAMTS-4 (aggrecanase-1) activity in synovial fluid is a predictive indicator of autologous chondrocyte implantation success (2017)
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Kuiper, J., Roberts, S., & Wright, K. (2017). The absence of detectable ADAMTS-4 (aggrecanase-1) activity in synovial fluid is a predictive indicator of autologous chondrocyte implantation success. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 1806-1814

Background:
Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) is used worldwide in the treatment of cartilage defects in the knee. Several demographic and injury-specific risk factors have been identified that can affect the success of ACI treatment. Howeve... Read More about The absence of detectable ADAMTS-4 (aggrecanase-1) activity in synovial fluid is a predictive indicator of autologous chondrocyte implantation success.