Meniscal tissue regeneration in porous 50/50 copoly(L-lactide/ε-caprolactone) implants

Biomaterials

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 613-622

  De Groot, J H ^a   Zijlstra, F M ^a   Kuipers, H W ^a   Pennings, A J ^a   Klompmaker, J ^b   Veth, R P H ^b   Jansen, H W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Degradation; Meniscal repair; Polyester; Porous materials

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CARTILAGE; COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DEGRADATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYESTERS; POLYURETHANES; POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPRESSION MODULI; MENISCAL TISSUE REGENERATION;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

COPOLYMER; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; POLYESTER; POLYLACTIDE; POLYURETHAN;

ADHESION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DOG; KNEE MENISCUS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DOGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYESTERS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGENERATION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0031127535     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(96)00169-X     Document Type: Article

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