Journal of Oral Science Research ›› 2018, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (11): 1154-1157.DOI: 10.13701/j.cnki.kqyxyj.2018.11.002

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Research Progress of Chondrogenic Progenitor Cells

TAN Pei-jie, ZHU Song-song*   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Ccenter for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
  • Received:2018-01-05 Online:2018-11-28 Published:2018-11-23

Abstract: Cartilage tissue has long been considered to be lack of self-healing capacity, and chondrocyte is considered to be the only cells in cartilage tissue. It is often easy to leave long-term pain and dysfunction after cartilage injury. However, with existing treatments, there are still difficulties to achieve a satisfactory outcome, which seriously affects patients' life quality. In recent years, with the development of biotechnology, tissue engineering, molecular biology technology, and stem cell therapy, the basic research in cartilage tissue made the breakthrough that provides new plans for treatments of cartilage injury. This thesis reviews the progress of research in cartilage stem cells. Currently, there is controversy about the nomenclature of stem cells derived from cartilage tissue. Therefore, chondrogenic progenitor cells (CPCs) is used in this thesis to describe cartilage stem cells.

Key words: Cartilage, Stem cell, Cartilage injury