NCT07094100

Tissue Engineered Cartilage to Repairing Articular Cartilage Defects

Clinical Study of Cartilage Constructed by Autologous Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Repairing Articular Cartilage Defects

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical College · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The joint cartilage constructed by combining bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells with three-dimensional materials has achieved the goal of repairing joint cartilage.

Detailed description

Trauma, degeneration, inflammation, tumors, etc. can all cause damage to the cartilage of human joints. The cartilage has an extremely low self-repairing ability. Once damaged, the damage will become more and more severe over time, accelerating the occurrence and development of osteoarthritis, and causing varying degrees of joint dysfunction and reduced quality of life. Currently, traditional surgical treatments such as joint debridement, microfracture, and mosaic cartilage transplantation only apply to small-scale cartilage injuries, and long-term follow-up has found that the results are not satisfactory. The breakthrough in the core technology of in vitro constructing living cartilage based on tissue engineering principles has brought new hope for the physiological function reconstruction of joint cartilage damage. Cartilage was the first tissue to successfully regenerate using tissue engineering technology, but due to the limitation of the source of seed cells, no significant clinical breakthrough has been achieved. Studies have shown that bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) are a type of cell with multi-directional differentiation potential (including cartilage and bone differentiation potential). Due to the fact that BMSCs can be autologously collected, the trauma is minimal, and the in vitro expansion ability is strong, therefore, they can meet the dual requirements of "quality and quantity" of seed cells for tissue engineering cartilage, and are very suitable for clinical application in the field of joint cartilage repair. More importantly, BMSCs have good cartilage formation ability. Our research group has established and invented a series of key technologies and methods for inducing BMSCs to form cartilage in vivo and in vitro in previous studies, and by applying BMSCs combined with three-dimensional degradable scaffold materials, we have been able to construct cartilage with a certain volume and morphology even biological joint tissues in vitro. At the same time, the application of autologous BMSCs for in vitro regeneration of cartilage has successfully repaired joint cartilage and bone composite defects in large animals, and especially has successfully carried out the exploratory clinical research of "in vitro construction of cartilage using autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells for repairing joint cartilage defects", and after a 5-year follow-up, it has been confirmed that this technology can achieve satisfactory clinical repair effects. The research purpose of this application project is to use BMSCs combined with three-dimensional materials to construct joint cartilage to achieve the goal of repairing joint cartilage.

Conditions

• Cartilage Injury
• OA Knee

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Tissue engineered cartilage	Cartilage constructed by autologous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-07-20
• Primary completion: 2027-12-01
• Completion: 2028-12-01
• First posted: 2025-07-30
• Last updated: 2025-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China