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Phenotypic drift in human tenocyte culture.
Tissue engineering - 1 Jul 2006
Yao L, Bestwick C S, Bestwick L A, Maffulli N, Aspden R M
Abstract excerpt
Tendon ruptures are increasingly common, repair can be difficult, and healing is poorly understood. Tissue engineering approaches often require expansion of cell numbers to populate a construct, and maintenance of cell phenotype is essential for tissue regeneration. Here, we characterize the phenotype of human Achilles tenocytes and assess how this is affected by passaging. Tenocytes, isolated from tendon samples...
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