Integrated Bone Formation Through In Vivo Endochondral Ossification Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Our research intends to develop a method that improves the lack of blood flow and can be applied to large bone defects. The protocol presented here is one with the approaches we have taken to this end. The approach to bone formation using artificial cartilage the structure that mimics the natural process of skeletal development during the embryogenesis.

This approach is relatively new in bone regeneration research. The advantage we inducing cartilage neogenesis, which is not an existent method currently used in clinical practice exists for vascularized bone grafts. Traditionally, bone regeneration research has used the techniques that combine stem cells, biomaterials, and growth factors alone or in combination.

The method of bone formation by implanting artificial cartilage uses a techniques that makes artificial cartilage by mixing stem cells with biomaterials that serve the scaffolding material, and inducing cartilage differentiation. Healing our patients'bone defect clinically requires a large quantity of high quality artificial cartilage. Our protocol addresses the challenge of producing high quality artificial cartilage, and how to make multiple cartilage fuse with each other to form a unified bone.

Our protocol helps generate larger, higher quality cartilage with fewer cells than protocols that use or do not use other scaffold materials to create artificial cartilage. Furthermore, the protocol can generate one integrated piece of bone, even with multiple pieces implanted in vivo. This is important because preparing clinical cartilage of a shape and size that fits the bone defect is impractical.