Clinical Trial of Autologous Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells (MPCs) Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis

Summary

Current medication treatments for KOA aim to relieve inflammation and pain, but they do little to delay or reverse the disease progression and most medications have obvious side effects. When the conservative treatments are useless to patients and joint deformities and joint disfunction, the patients may require surgery. Although surgery of the joints can relieve the pain temporarily, long-term effect (over 10 years) is hard to achieve.

Timeline

Start

2013-11

Primary completion

2016-05

Completion

2016-11

Publications

• Lu L, Dai C, Zhang Z, Du H, Li S, Ye P, Fu Q, Zhang L, Wu X, Dong Y, Song Y, Zhao D, Pang Y, Bao C. Treatment of knee osteoarthritis with intra-articular injection of autologous adipose-derived mesenchymal progenitor cells: a prospective, randomized, double-blind, active-controlled, phase IIb clinical trial. Stem Cell Res Ther. 2019 May 21;10(1):143. doi: 10.1186/s13287-019-1248-3.

Drugs

Indications