title: Concise review: cell-based strategies in bone tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
abstract: Cellular strategies play an important role in bone tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (BTE/RM). Variability in cell culture procedures (e.g., cell types, cell isolation and expansion, cell seeding methods, and preculture conditions before in vivo implantation) may influence experimental outcome. Meanwhile, outcomes from initial clinical trials are far behind those of animal studies, which is suggested to be related to insufficient nutrient and oxygen supply inside the BTE/RM constructs as some complex clinical implementations require bone regeneration in too large a quantity. Coculture strategies, in which angiogenic cells are introduced into osteogenic cell cultures, might provide a solution for improving vascularization and hence increasing bone formation for cell-based constructs. So far, preclinical studies have demonstrated that cell-based tissue-engineered constructs generally induce more bone formation compared with acellular constructs. Further, cocultures have been shown to enhance vascularization and bone formation compared with monocultures. However, translational efficacy from animal studies to clinical use requires improvement, and the role implanted cells play in clinical bone regeneration needs to be further elucidated. In view of this, the present review provides an overview of the critical procedures during in vitro and in vivo phases for cell-based strategies (both monoculture and coculture) in BTE/RM to achieve more standardized culture conditions for future studies, and hence enhance bone formation.
authors.affiliation: Department of VIP Service and Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Beijing Stomatological Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; Department of Biomaterials and Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Jinling
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Sanne K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Both
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Fu-Zhai
authors.initials: FZ
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Juli
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Gert J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Meijer
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Jansen
authors.forename: Jeroen J J P
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: van den Beucken
mesh_terms: D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D001861:Bone Regeneration; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D044968:Regenerative Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Adipose stem cells; Bone marrow stromal cells; Endothelial cells; Mesenchymal stem cells; Tissue regeneration; Vascularization