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Human Fetal and Adult Chondrocytes.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2015
Shahin Kifah, Mahmoudifar Nastaran, Doran Pauline M
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As the only cell type found in healthy adult cartilage, chondrocytes are the obvious and most direct starting point for cartilage tissue engineering. Human adult, juvenile, neonatal, and fetal chondrocytes have all been demonstrated to produce cartilage matrix components in vitro for production of engineered tissues. In this chapter, procedures are outlined for isolation of chondrocytes from human fetal and adult...
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