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Lammi MJ, Elo MA, Sironen RK, Karjalainen HM, Kaarniranta K, Helminen HJ: Hydrostatic pressure-induced changes in cellular protein synthesis. Biorheology 41(3-4):309-313 2004
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Sironen R, Elo M, Kaarniranta K, Helminen HJ, Lammi MJ: Transcriptional activation in chondrocytes submitted to hydrostatic pressure. Biorheology 37(1-2):85-93, 2000
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Pulkkinen H, Tiitu V, Lammentausta E, Laasanen MS, Hämäläinen ER, Kiviranta I, Lammi MJ: Cellulose sponge as a scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering. Bio-Med Mater Engin 16(4 Suppl):S29-S35, 2006
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Prittinen J, Ylärinne J, Piltti J, Karhula S, Rieppo L, Ojanen P, Korhonen RK, Saarakkala S, Lammi MJ, Qu C: Effect centrifugal force on the development of articular neocartilage with bovine primary chondrocytes. Cell Tissue Res, accepted for publication, 2018
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Brittberg M, Lindahl A, Nilsson A, Ohlsson C, Isaksson O,Peterson L: Treatment of deep cartilage defects in the knee with autologous chondrocyte transplantation. N Engl J Med 331(14): 889-895, 1994
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Pulkkinen H, Tiitu V, Lammentausta E, Laasanen MS, Hämäläinen ER, Kiviranta I, Lammi MJ: Cellulose sponge as a scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering. Bio-Med Mater Engin 16(4 Suppl):S29-S35, 2006
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Lammi MJ, Piltti J, Prittinen J, Qu C: Challenges in fabrication of tissue-engineered cartilage with correct cellular colonization and extracellular matrix assembly. Int J Mol Sci 19(9): 2700, 2018 (review)
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Ylärinne J, Qu C, Lammi MJ: Scaffold-free approach produces similar quality neo-cartilage tissues as HyStem™ and Hydromatrix™ scaffolds. J Mater Sci Mater Med 28(4): 59, 2017
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Stem Cell Research
Developing embryos in their blastocyst phase have so called embryonic stem cells, which are pluripotent in character. This means that they can differentiate into any cell type present in our body.
Besides differentiated cells, which form our tissues and organs, our body has undifferentiated cells, which have an ability to differentiate into specialized cell types. These cells are called adult stem cells or mesenchymal stem cells. These cells are multipotent, which menas that although they can give rise to other differentiated cell types, their ability to differentiate is limited compared with pluripotent stem cells.
Stem cells have raised a lot of interest as a source for replacement of various diseased cells, tissues and organs of our body, particularly after the invention of the method to generate so-called induced pluripotent stem cells from differentiated skin cells by cellular reprogramming was published in 2007 (1,2). Professor Shinya Yamanaka was awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine already in 2012.
Despite the importance of this innovation, further research has been, and will still be needed, before wide use of clinical applications with differentiated pluripotent stem cells can be achieved, due to the potential difficulties in controlling the differentiation process of the implanted (differentiated) pluripotent stem cells.
Therefore, the adult stem cells have been considered safer source for regenerative medicine purposes. Homing of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to the injured body sites is important. Characterization of the MSCs has shown that they express a receptor called CD44 in their plasma membrane, which binds to extracellular carbohydrate hyaluronan.
This has relevance to the homing of the MSCs, since injured locations tend to accumulate a large amount of hyaluronan (3). We have also revealed that human bone marrow MSCs have an extensive CD44-dependent hyaluronan coat (4), and even secrete hyaluronan-coated extracellular vesicles (5).
Expansion of the MSCs may attenuate their ability to differentiate properly into specific lineages. Thus, optimization of expansion culture conditions may be beneficial in order to maintain the good properties of the stem cells. In our studies using titanium-coated surfaces (6,7) we observed that titanium oxide coating may improve the proliferation capacity of the MSCs without adverse effects on the differentiation capacity.
For pluripotent stem cells to fulfill the prospects they have been given, the differentiation protocols to generate the desired cell types must be strictly developed. We have taken efforts to find optimize the culture conditions to differentiate pluripotent stem cells into chondrocytes, and even compared the chondrogenic potential between HS306 embryonic stem cell line and our own induced pluripotent stem cell line (8). Later, the differentiation protocol was further simplified (9).
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Qu C, Rilla K, Tammi R, Tammi M, Kröger H, Lammi MJ: Extensive CD44-dependent hyaluronan coats on human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells produced by hyaluronan synthases HAS1, HAS2 and HAS3. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 48: 45-54, 2014 [Pubmed] [Full text]
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Kaitainen S, Mähönen AJ, Lappalainen R, Kröger H, Lammi MJ, Qu C: TiO2 coating promotes human mesenchymal stem cell proliferation without the loss of their capacity for chondrogenic differentiation. Biofabrication 5: 025009, 2013[Pubmed] [Full text]
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Qu C, Puttonen KA, Lindeberg H, Ruponen M, Hovatta O, Koistinaho J, Lammi MJ: Chondrogenic differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells in chondrocyte co-culture. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 45: 1802-1820, 2013 [Pubmed] [Full text]
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Qu C, Lammi MJ: Induction of chondrocyte-specific gene expressions in human embryonic stem cells differentiated under feeder-free culture conditions. Curr Regen Med 7: 54-63, 2017 [Full text]
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