title: Future of tissue engineering in rheumatic diseases.
abstract: Chronic inflammation during rheumatoid arthritis and degenerative processes during osteoarthritis eventually result in joint destruction. Anti-inflammatory therapies facilitate the inhibition or delay of progressing joint cartilage and bone loss, but do not regenerate these tissues. Surgical procedures are quite unsatisfactory in long-term evaluation and often lead to endoprothetic joint replacement. Present tissue engineering technologies offer new strategies for the treatment of cartilage and bone defects. Here, beyond implantation of cell suspensions, biomaterials combined with tissue-specific cells or mesenchymal stem cells are clinically applied. This review focuses on state-of-the-art and future in situ mesenchymal stem cell-based tissue engineering approaches for joint repair in patients with rheumatic diseases.
authors.affiliation: Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Tissue Engineering Laboratory and Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Tucholskystr. 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany. jochen.ringe@charite.de
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ringe
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Häupl
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sittinger
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D023822:Tissue Engineering