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We hypothesized that biophysical skeletal trauma rather than molecular cues may explain reported MSC circulation phenomena. Deep-femoral vein (FV) and matched peripheral vein blood samples (PVBs) were collected from patients undergoing lower-limb orthopaedic procedures during surgery (tibia using conventional sequential reaming, n = 9, femur using reamer\/irrigator\/aspirator (RIA), n = 15). PVBs were also taken from early (n = 15) and established (n = 12) rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and healthy donors (n = 12). Colony-forming unit-fibroblasts (CFU-Fs) were found in 17\/36 FVBs but only 7\/74 PVBs (mostly from femoral RIA); highly proliferative clonogenic cells were not generated. Only one colony was found in control\/RA samples (n = 28). The rare CFU-Fs\u2019 MSC nature was confirmed by phenotypic: CD105+\/CD73+\/CD90+ and CD19\u2212\/CD31\u2212\/CD33\u2212\/CD34\u2212\/CD45\u2212\/CD61\u2212, and molecular profiles with 39\/80 genes (including osteo-, chondro-, adipo-genic and immaturity markers) similar across multiple MSC tissue controls, but not dermal fibroblasts. Analysis of FVB-MSCs suggested that their likely origin was bone marrow as only two differences were observed between FVB-MSCs and IC-BM-MSCs (ACVR2A, p = 0.032 and MSX1, p = 0.003). Stromal cells with the phenotype and molecular profile of MSCs were scarcely found in the circulation, supporting the hypothesis that their very rare presence is likely linked to biophysical micro-damage caused by skeletal trauma (here orthopaedic manipulation) rather than specific molecular cues to a circulatory pool of MSCs capable of repair of remote organs or tissues. 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