Sex differences in osteoarthritis prevalence, pain perception, physical function and therapeutics

Segal, Neil A.; Nilges, Jeannine M.; Oo, Win Min

doi:10.1016/j.joca.2024.04.002

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Therapeutic Controlled Release Strategies for Human Osteoarthritis

Wang,

Liu,

Venkatesan

et al. 2024

Adv Healthcare Materials

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Osteoarthritis is a progressive, irreversible debilitating whole joint disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Despite the availability of various options (non‐pharmacological and pharmacological treatments and therapy, orthobiologics, and surgical interventions), none of them can definitively cure osteoarthritis in patients. Strategies based on the controlled release of therapeutic compounds via biocompatible materials may provide powerful tools to enhance the spatiotemporal delivery, expression, and activities of the candidate agents as a means to durably manage the pathological progression of osteoarthritis in the affected joints upon convenient intra‐articular (injectable) delivery while reducing their clearance, dissemination, or side effects. The goal of this review is to describe the current knowledge and advancements of controlled release to treat osteoarthritis, from basic principles to applications in vivo using therapeutic recombinant molecules and drugs and more innovatively gene sequences, providing a degree of confidence to manage the disease in patients in a close future.

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