J Korean Orthop Res Soc.
2007 Oct;10(2):56-64.
The Effect of Human Joint Fluid in the Surviviorship and
Proliferation of Bone-Marrow Derived Progenitor Cell
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Chonbuk National University, Chonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju, Korea.
- 2Department of Animal Source, College of Life Source Science, Cheju National University, Korea.
- 3Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Cheju National University, Cheju National University Hospital, Jeju, Korea. osdr2815@cheju.ac.kr
Abstract
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PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of human joint fluid media on the survival and proliferation of bone marrow derived precusor cell, and to provide the basic data of the intraarticular injection with scaffold-free progenitor cell in advanced degenerative osteoarthritis (OA).
MATERIALS AND METHODS
We obtained the joint fluid and bone marrow from 15 patients who had total knee arthroplasty due to degenerative OA, and isolated the mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs) from bone marrow by washing and ten times subculture. We devided the control and experiment groups according to the addition of joint fluid at various ratios (1/100, 1/10, 1, 10, 100, 1000 microliter), and statistically analyzed the numbers of mesenchymal progenitor cell proliferated according to the culture period.
RESULTS
The experiments using joint fluid without centrifuge showed the increase of MPCs as the culture poriod was extended and was independent to the existence of fetal bovine serum, the dose dependent pattern in the increase of MPCs in proportion to the dose of joint fluid, and statistically significant increase MPCs in 10, 100, 1000 microliter of serum contained groups, 1000 microliter of serum-free groups (p=0.039, p=0.017, p=0.077, p=0.004). The experiments using joint fluid with centrifuge showed the increase of MPCs as the culture period was extended and was independent of fetal bovine serum, and the dose dependent pattern in the increase of MPCs in proportion to the dose of joint fluid, and statistically significant increase MPCs in 1000 microliter of both serum contained and serum-free groups (p=0.006, p=0.024).
CONCLUSION
MSCs not only can survive, but also proliferate in human joint fluid. The rate of proliferaton is increased faster by the adding of joint fluid than only using common media in cell culture. And the experiment shows the dose dependent pattern in the increase of MPCs in proportion to the dose of joint fluid.