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Chondrocytes or adult stem cells for cartilage repair: the indisputable role of growth factors.
Injury - 1 Mar 2012
Freyria Anne-Marie, Mallein-Gerin Frédéric
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Articular cartilage is easily injured but difficult to repair and cell therapies are proposed as tools to regenerate the defects in the tissue. Both differentiated chondrocytes and adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are regarded as cells potentially able to restore a functional cartilage. However, it is a complex process from the cell level to the tissue end product, during which growth factors play important...
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