Un enfoque basado en células madre para la reparación del cartílago.

Kristen Johnson1, Shoutian Zhu, Matthew S Tremblay

  • 1Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, 10675 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA. kjohnson@gnf.org

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 12, 2012
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores descubrieron la kartogenina, una pequeña molécula que promueve eficazmente la diferenciación de las células del cartílago y es prometedora para el tratamiento de la osteoartritis (OA). Este hallazgo podría conducir a nuevas terapias con células madre para la reparación del cartílago.

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