Cell-Based Strategies for Meniscus Tissue Engineering

Table 1

Cell application in meniscus tissue engineering.

Strategy	Cell application	Cell resource	Author
Single cell type	MC	Human (18–84 years)	Baker et al., 2009 [58]
		New Zealand white rabbits	Gunja and Athanasiou, 2010 [41]
		Allogeneic rabbit cell	Kang et al., 2006 [32]
		New Zealand white rabbits	Esposito et al., 2013 [62]
	AC	Swine	Yoo et al., 2011 [63]
		Autologous sheep chondrocytes	Kon et al., 2008 [64]
		Autologous and allogenic swine chondrocytes	Weinand et al., 2006 [66]
	SMC	Adult equine	Fox et al., 2010 [70]
		Canine	Warnock et al., 2014 [71]
	SC	Rat bone marrow	Yamasaki et al., 2005 [77]
		Femoral and tibial bone marrow of calves	Nerurkar et al., 2011 [78]
		Femoral and tibial bone marrow of calves	Baker et al., 2011 [44]
		Human iliac crest (27–55 years)	Petri et al., 2012 [48]
		Adult human synovial membranes	Sakimura et al., 2006 [81]
Cell coculture	MC and AC	Knee joint of rabbit	Gunja and Athanasiou, 2009 [87]
	MC and MSCs	Human meniscus and human MSCs	Cui et al., 2012 [92]
	MC and BMSC	Human meniscus and iliac crest of patients	Diao et al., 2013 [91]
	MC and BMSC	Human meniscus and human MSCs	Matthies et al., 2013 [93]
	MC and SMSC	The knees of pigs	Tan et al., 2010 [95]
Zonal recapitulation	AC and FBC	Human donors (<35 years)	Mandal et al., 2011 [33]
	AC and MC	Stifle joint of calves	Higashioka et al., 2014 [97]
Scaffold-free	SMC	Synovial villi from canine with stifle osteoarthritis	Warnock et al., 2014 [72]
	SMSC	Porcine synovial membranes	Moriguchi et al., 2013 [102]
	MC and AC	Knee joints of calves	Huey and Athanasiou, 2011 [104]
	MC and AC	Knee joints of calves	Hadidi et al., 2015 [106]

MC: meniscus cell, AC: articular chondrocyte, MSC: mesenchymal stem cells, BMSC: bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, SMC: synovial membrane cell, SC: stem cell, SMSC: synovial membrane mesenchymal stem cells, FBC: fibroblast cells, LPA: phospholipid lysophosphatidic acid, FBS: fetal bovine serum, and ADSC: adipose-derived stem cells.