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Human primary articular chondrocytes, chondroblasts-like cells, and dedifferentiated chondrocytes: differences in gene, microRNA, and protein expression and phenotype.
Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods - 1 Feb 2011
Karlsen Tommy A, Shahdadfar Aboulghassem, Brinchmann Jan E
Abstract excerpt
In this study we have isolated human primary uncultured articular chondrocytes. When these cells are allowed to proliferate within their own extracellular matrix (ECM), they begin to produce hyaline ECM molecules similar to embryological chondroblasts. These cells are called chondroblast-like cel...
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