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Development and phenotypic characterization of a high density in vitro model of auricular chondrocytes with applications in reconstructive plastic surgery.
Histology and histopathology - 1 May 2006
Haisch A, Marzahn U, Mobasheri A, Schulze-Tanzil G, Shakibaei M
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Cultivation of phenotypically stable auricular chondrocytes will have applications in autologous chondrocyte transplantation and reconstructive surgery of cartilage. Chondrocytes grown in monolayer culture rapidly dedifferentiate assuming a fibroblast-like morphology and lose their cartilage-specific pattern of gene expression. Three-dimensional high-density culture models mimic more closely the in vivo...
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