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Name: The Crucial Role of Stem Cells in Joint Healing 💪
Uploaded: 2024-03-01T21:00:34+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short single-speaker YouTube explainer by Dr. Charles Mok describing how joint-resident stem cells that normally repair arthritic damage can become…

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The Crucial Role of Stem Cells in Joint Healing 💪

1 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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A short single-speaker YouTube explainer by Dr. Charles Mok describing how joint-resident stem cells that normally repair arthritic damage can become quiescent/senescent due to inflammation, trauma, or injury, and how the body may clear these dormant cells via autophagy.

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Autophagy (described as “eating”).

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So how do stem cells work? So what appears to be happening is that the stem cells in your joint that are supposed to be repairing the arthritis are quiescent. They're called senescent cells. Senescent cells is a process where cells reproduce over and over again. And because of things such as inflammation, trauma, injury, they get signals to stop growing and just kind of lay there dormant. And they're alive, but they're dormant. They might be something like cancer or some diseased cells. We got to stop growing and hopefully sometime in the next few days and clean us up through a process called autophagy or auto on yourself, fagy, which is eating.