Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) is a regenerative procedure used to treat focal articular cartilage defects in knee joints. However, age has been considered as a limiting factor and ACI is not recommended for patients older than 40-50 years of age. One reason for this may be due to the reduced capacity of aged chondrocytes in generating new cartilage. Currently, the underlying mechanism contributing to aging-associated functional decline in chondrocytes is not clear and no proven approach exists to reverse chondrocyte aging. Given that chondrocytes in healthy hyaline cartilage typically display a spherical shape, believed to be essential for chondrocyte phenotype stability, we hypothesize that maintaining aged chondrocytes in a suspension culture that forces the cells to adopt a round morphology may help to "rejuvenate" them to a younger state, thus, leading to enhanced cartilage regeneration. Chondrocytes isolated from aged donors displayed reduced proliferation potential and impaired capacity in generating hyaline cartilage, compared to cells isolated from young donors, indicated by increased hypertrophy and cellular senescence. To test our hypothesis, the "old" chondrocytes were seeded as a suspension onto an agarose-based substratum, where they maintained a round morphology. After the 3-day suspension culture, aged chondrocytes displayed enhanced replicative capacity, compared to those grown adherent to tissue culture plastic. Moreover, chondrocytes subjected to suspension culture formed new cartilage in vitro with higher quality and quantity, with enhanced cartilage matrix deposition, concomitant with lower levels of hypertrophy and cellular senescence markers. Mechanistic analysis suggested the involvement of the RhoA and ERK1/2 signaling pathways in the "rejuvenation" process. In summary, our study presents a robust and straightforward method to enhance the function of aged human chondrocytes, which can be conveniently used to generate a large number of high-quality chondrocytes for ACI application in the elderly.

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Against this background, the first objective (a) of this study was to present an efficient and sufficiently accurate sampling scheme for supra-regional forest regrowth inventories, which we applied to young oaks stands. The second, and major, objective (b) was to identify the crucial success factors for high-quality oak forest regeneration in northwest Germany.

Objective (a): Factors that have been identified as potentially crucial for the success or failure of oak regeneration were either included in a field inventory procedure or extracted from forest inventory databases. We found that the collected data were suitable to be analyzed in a three-step success model, which was aimed at identifying the crucial success factors for high-quality oak forest regeneration.

Objective (b): Our modeling procedure, which included a Bayesian estimation approach with spike-and-slab priors, revealed that competitive pressure from the secondary tree species was the most decisive success factor; no competition, or low competition by secondary tree species appeared to be particularly beneficial for the success of high-quality oak regeneration. Also fencing and the absence of competitive vegetation (weeds, grass, bracken) seemed to be beneficial factors for the success of oak regeneration.

Oak forests in Central Europe with pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) and sessile oak (Q. petraea) are highly valued by forestry and nature conservation, since they frequently provide both high quality timber and a rich and typical biodiversity (Lpke 1998; Brndle and Brandl 2001; Lf et al. 2016; Leuschner and Ellenberg 2017; Mlder et al. 2019). Within the framework of close-to-nature forestry (Pommerening and Murphy 2004; Brang et al. 2014), oak forest regeneration techniques that consider both silvicultural and nature conservation demands have become a very important issue. Not only the appropriate size of canopy openings, but also the suitability and implementation of natural regeneration, planting or seeding have been discussed intensively (Lpke 1998; Dobrowolska 2008; Saha et al. 2012; Annighfer et al. 2015; Skiadaresis et al. 2016; Collet et al. 2017; Dillen et al. 2017). We contribute to this line of research by analyzing data from large-scale field inventories and aim to identify the crucial factors for successful oak regeneration.

While there are many current experimental and local studies that aim at disentangling the relationships between different environmental and silvicultural factors and the success of oak regeneration (Lf et al. 2006; Ostrogovi et al. 2010; Bezina and Dobrovoln 2011; Ligot et al. 2013; Annighfer et al. 2015; Jensen and Lf 2017), systematic supra-regional studies at the greater landscape level are missing so far. Against this background, we have designed and implemented a sampling scheme that is based on forest inventory data and field inventories within the whole area of northwest Germany. The selection of the study sites was statistically optimized to improve representativeness. Considering a high sample size in a large area, our approach aimed to both collect data in sufficient quality and to achieve an efficient work progress. We selected potentially relevant environmental and silvicultural factors that have been highlighted in the literature. The data were either recorded using a carefully developed field protocol or extracted from forest inventory databases.

Our objective, therefore, is twofold. First, we present an efficient and sufficiently accurate sampling scheme for supra-regional forest regrowth inventories, which we apply to young oaks stands. Secondly, we analyze the gathered data in a three-step success model, in order to identify the crucial success factors for high-quality oak forest regeneration. The results obtained should serve as an objective component in the silvicultural decision-making processes within the framework of close-to-nature forestry.

When referring to the success factors of oak regeneration, Table 5 shows the importance and inclusion probabilities for all model terms, while Fig. 4 displays marginal coefficient effect plots only for the eight most decisive model terms, as selected by highest values in Table 5.

In order to effectively gather data on the density and height of young oaks and secondary tree species, six-tree samples, as a particular case of k-tree sampling (following Prodan 1968; Ko et al. 1969), were taken in the studied stands. In contrast to point sampling (Bitterlich sampling) or sampling with fixed-area plots, the number of included trees per unit is fixed in k-tree sampling (Kramer and Aka 2008). The substantial benefit of this method lies in the reduced field work effort and, hence, in the control of inventory costs. This applies in particular for assessing tree regeneration in cases when high stem densities are quite usual or measurement conditions turn out to be difficult, e.g. due to blackberry thickets.

According to our theoretical model, 19% of the investigated study sites can be regarded as successfully regenerated young oak stands. We are aware that this proportion might appear surprisingly low for many forestry practitioners. However, due to the predefined conditions for the determination of successful study sites we made sure that the success factors of oak regeneration were modeled using solid reference data. When comparing the calculated success of oak regeneration with the regeneration success evaluated by expert opinion in the field, the latter amounted to 55%. The difference of 36% can be explained by the fact that the field experts were requested to evaluate the regeneration success of the whole study site including planned secondary tree species. This was done with reference to the forest development types described in the forest planning documents. However, a success rate of 55% may also be regarded as low considering the high investment in the establishment of oak cultures. be457b7860

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