Hepatocyte growth factor facilitates cartilage repair. Full thickness articular cartilage defect studied in rabbit knees

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 474-480

  Wakitani, Shigeyuki ^a   Imoto, Kazuhiko ^a   Kimura, Tomoatsu ^b   Ochi, Takahiro ^b   Matsumoto, Kunio ^b   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^b  

^a MINAMI OSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HISTOLOGY; KNEE; MALE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; TISSUE REPAIR;

EID: 0030659459     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453679708996266     Document Type: Article

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