Isolation and characterization of human articular chondrocytes from surgical waste after total knee arthroplasty (TKA)

Background Cartilage tissue engineering is a fast-evolving field of biomedical engineering, in which the chondrocytes represent the most commonly used cell type. Since research in tissue engineering always consumes a lot of cells, simple and cheap isolation methods could form a powerful basis to boo...

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Main Authors: Jakob Naranda, Lidija Gradišnik, Mario Gorenjak, Matjaž Vogrin, Uroš Maver
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2017-03-01
Series:PeerJ
Subjects:
TKA
Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/3079.pdf