bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/560771; this version posted February 26, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 PTH decreases in vitro human cartilage regeneration without affecting hypertrophic 2 differentiation 3 4 Marijn Rutgers1, Frances Bach2, Luciënne Vonk1, Mattie van Rijen1, Vanessa Akrum1, 5 Antonette van Boxtel1, Wouter Dhert1,2, Laura Creemers1 6 7 1 Department of Orthopedics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands 8 2 Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 9 Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands 10 11 Address for correspondence 12 Dr. F.C.Bach 13 Utrecht University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 14 Yalelaan 104, 3584 CM Utrecht, the Netherlands 15
[email protected], +31302537563 16 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/560771; this version posted February 26, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 18 Abstract 19 Regenerated cartilage formed after Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation may be of 20 suboptimal quality due to postulated hypertrophic changes. Parathyroid hormone-related 21 peptide, containing the parathyroid hormone sequence (PTHrP 1-34), enhances cartilage 22 growth during development and inhibits hypertrophic differentiation of mesenchymal stromal 23 cells (MSCs) and growth plate chondrocytes.