Cartilage tissue engineering using pre-aggregated human articular chondrocytes

In this study, we first aimed at determining whether human articular chondrocytes (HAC) proliferate in aggregates in the presence of strong chondrocyte mitogens. We then investigated if the aggregated cells have an enhanced chondrogenic capacity as compared to cells cultured in monolayer. HAC from f...

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Main Authors: F Wolf, C Candrian, D Wendt, J Farhadi, M Heberer, I Martin, A Barbero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AO Research Institute Davos 2008-12-01
Series:European Cells & Materials
Online Access:http://www.ecmjournal.org/journal/papers/vol016/pdf/v016a10.pdf