Use of mesenchymal stem cells in chronic diseases such as knee osteoarthritis.

Introduction In individuals with obesity or overweight, local trauma, high performance athletes and elderly people, the incidence of knee osteoarthritis increases and is more frequent in women than in men after the age of 50 years (8, 9). In osteoarthritis, inflammation is enhanced by the production of substances secreted by synovial fibroblasts which attract immune […]