According to the researchers of Murdoch University, osteoarthritis, causing loss of cartilage which cannot repair itself after injury, can be treated with adult stem cells.根據研究人員的梅鐸大學，骨性關節炎，造成損失的軟骨不能自我修復損傷後，可以治療的成人幹細胞。 According to the researcher the special power of the stem cell to protect cartilage is very helpful in treating osteoarthritis.據有關研究人員特別權力的幹細胞，以保護軟骨，是非常有幫助的，在治療骨關節炎。

Current treatments are aimed at easing painful symptoms but are unable to preserve cartilage lining the joint.目前治療的目的是緩解疼痛症狀，但都無法維護軟骨襯砌聯合。 However.然而。 working with Australia’s adult stemcell company Mesoblast, the university’s pre-clinical trials of allogeneic adult stemcells, which are taken from a donor, showed the therapy could protect cartilage against damage in osteoarthritis of the knee.與澳大利亞的成人幹細胞公司mesoblast ，該大學的臨床前試驗的異體成年幹細胞，都是由一個捐助者，表明該療法可保護軟骨損傷對膝關節骨性關節炎的。

Mesoblast said the results paved the way for human trials to treat inflammatory and degenerative diseases of joint cartilage, such as osteoarthritis, which affected millions worldwide. mesoblast表示，調查結果鋪平了道路，為人類試驗中，以治療炎症和退行性疾病的關節軟骨，如關節炎，會影響全世界數以百萬計。

The project’s chief investigator, Professor Rick Read from Murdoch’s School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, said “Realistically we’re not looking at this as a treatment to completely eliminate the disease but rather to slow down its progression”.該項目的總調查主任，教授里克改為由默多克的獸醫學院和生物醫學科學，說： "實事求是地，我們都不會在此作為一種治療，以徹底消滅該疾病，而是以減慢其進展" 。

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