Fabrication and In Vitro Study of Tissue-Engineered Cartilage Scaffold Derived from Wharton’s Jelly Extracellular Matrix

The scaffold is a key element in cartilage tissue engineering. The components of Wharton’s jelly are similar to those of articular cartilage and it also contains some chondrogenic growth factors, such as insulin-like growth factor I and transforming growth factor-β. We fabricated a tissue-engineered...

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Main Authors: Tongguang Xiao, Weimin Guo, Mingxue Chen, Chunxiang Hao, Shuang Gao, Jingxiang Huang, Zhiguo Yuan, Yu Zhang, Mingjie Wang, Penghao Li, Jiang Peng, Aiyuan Wang, Yu Wang, Xiang Sui, Li Zhang, Wenjing Xu, Shibi Lu, Heyong Yin, Jianhua Yang, Shuyun Liu, Quanyi Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5839071