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Cellulose sponge as a scaffold for cartilage tissue engineering.
Bio-medical materials and engineering - 1 Jan 2006
Pulkkinen Hertta, Tiitu Virpi, Lammentausta Eveliina, Laasanen Mikko S, Hämäläinen Eija-Riitta, Kiviranta Ilkka, Lammi Mikko J
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One goal of functional tissue engineering is to manufacture scaffolds infiltrated with chondrocytes which are suitable for transplantation into the lesion areas of articular cartilage. Various research strategies are used to fabricate cartilage transplants which would have the correct phenotype, contain enough extracellular matrix components, and have structural and biomechanical properties equivalent to normal...
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