Lee, Min Ji
Kim, Soo Hyun
Shin, Sue
Kim, Tae Woo
Jo, Chris Hyunchul https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6161-5442
Funding for this research was provided by:
Korea Health Industry Development Institute (HI20C0386)
National Research Foundation of Korea (2022R1A2C2092854)
Ministry of SMEs and Startups (S3283968)
Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea (22C0608L1)
Article History
Received: 27 December 2024
Accepted: 19 August 2025
First Online: 2 September 2025
Declarations
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: Human umbilical cords platelet-rich plasma, and tibia plateaus were collected from patients with written consent under approval by Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center Institutional Review Board (title: Local Homing of Mesenchymal Stem cells: Mechanism & Enhancement with Platelet-derived Growth factors; SMG-SNU BMC Institutional Review Board; approval number 30-2020-039; granted June 11, 2020) The animal protocol of this study has been approved by the Institutional Animal Studies Committee (title: MSC and PRP effects on knee joint injury model; SMG-SNU BMC Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee; approval number 2017-0018; granted April 16, 2018).
: Figure 8 was created using BioRender (license obtained under the BioRender Academic Publication License) and is included with permission for open-access publication under CC-BY 4.0. Citation (OZ27P88CQH).
: C.H.J. owns shares of AcesoStem Biostrategies Inc. The other authors indicated no potential conflicts of interest.