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Autologous chondrocyte implantation: cells phenotype and proliferation analysis.
Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA - 1 Jul 2001
Gigante A, Bevilacqua C, Zara C, Travasi M, Chillemi C
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The phenotype and proliferation of human chondrocytes in culture were analyzed before they were implanted as autologous graft in cartilage lesions. During ten autologous chondrocyte implantations in articular cartilage lesions of the knee in ten patients, small amounts of cells to be implanted were collected and analyzed by morphology, cytochemistry (alcian blue, safranin-O), and immunocytochemistry (antibodies...
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