Transplantation of allograft chondrocytes embedded in agarose gel into cartilage defects of rabbits

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 50-65

  Rahfoth, Barbara ^a,d   Weisser, J ^a   Sternkopf, F ^a   Aigner, T ^b   Von Der Mark, K ^b   Brauer R ^c  

^a Orthopaedic Clinic   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d Dept of Clin Chem and Lab D ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Agarose gel; Articular cartilage; Chondrocytes; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

PROTEOGLYCAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOGLYCAN SYNTHESIS; RABBIT; TISSUE REPAIR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031901029     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/joca.1997.0092     Document Type: Article

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