One Flew over the Progenitor's Nest: Migratory Cells Find a Home in Osteoarthritic Cartilage

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• 作者：Ilyas M. Khan ; Rebecca Williams ; Charles W. Archer
• 刊名：Cell Stem Cell
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：3 April 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：4
• 期：4
• 页码：282-284
• 全文大小：259 K

文摘

Articular cartilage is the target tissue of osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative disease with no cure. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Miosge and colleagues (Koelling et al., 2009) report that migratory progenitor cells occupy degenerating OA tissue but that this population is not present in healthy cartilage.