Electrical stimulation of masseter muscles maintains condylar cartilage in long-term organ culture.

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When condylar cartilage is maintained under nonfunctional organ culture conditions, its phenotypic expression is altered to a premature form with less expression of the type II collagen characteristic of mature chondroblasts. The aim of this study was to examine whether, by electrical stimulation of the major masticatory muscle, the masseter muscle, chondrogenic expression could be maintained under organ culture...

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