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Almost immediately after her stem cell transplant, Luci was back to her bouncy, happy self.

Shirley Zindler
Santa Rosa, CA





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Fortier LA, Nixon AJ, Williams J, Cable CS: Isolation and chondrocytic differentiation of equine bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells. AJVR 59:1182-1187, 1998.

Frisbie DD, McIlwraith CW: Gene Therapy: Future Therapies in Osteoarthritis. In: 2001 AAEP, pp 211-216, 2001.

Im G-I, Kim D-Y, Shin J-H, Hyun C-W, Cho W-H: Repair of cartilage defect in the rabbit with cultured mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow. J Bone and Joint Surgery 83-B:289-294, 2001.

Johnstone B: Tissue Engineered Meniscus Repair. Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, 2002.

Jorgensen C, Noel D, Apparailly F, Sany J: Stem cells for repair of cartilage and bone: the next challenge in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis 60:305-309, 2001.

Lu X, Li S, Cheng J: Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells: progress in bone/cartilage defect repair. Sheng Wu Yi Xue Gong Cheng Xue Za Zhi 19:135-139, 2002.

Nixon AJ: Use of Stem Cells for Cartilage Repair to Combat Arthritis and Stress-Induced Breakdown. Ithaca, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (ongoing study).

Quintavalla J, Uziel-Fusi S, Yin J, Boehnlein E, Pastor G, Blancuzzi V, Singh HN, Kraus K, O'Byrne E, Pellas TC: Fluorescently labeled mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) maintain multilineage potential and can be detected following implantation into articular cartilage defects. Biomaterials:109-119, 2002.

Wakitani S, Goto T, Pineda SJ, Young RG, Mansour JM, Caplan AI, Goldberg V: Mesenchymal Cell-Based Repair of Large, Full-Thickness Defects of Articular Cartilage. J Bone and Joint Surgery 76-A:579-592, 1994.