Articular cartilage repair: Rabbit experiments with a collagen gel-biomatrix and chondrocytes cultured in it

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 56-62

  Kawamura, Sadahito ^a   Wakitani, Shigeyuki ^b   Kimura, Tomoatsu ^a   Maeda, Akira ^a   Caplan, Arnold I ^c   Shino, Konsei ^a   Ochi, Takahiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b MINAMI OSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN GEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CHONDROPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; KNEE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RIGIDITY; TIME;

EID: 0031905173     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453679809002358     Document Type: Article

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