Can engineered cartilage transplants be used for treating rheumatic diseases?

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 172-173

  Sittinger, Michael ^a   Burmester, Gerd R ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BIOMATERIAL; CHEMOKINE;

ARTHROPATHY; ARTHROSCOPY; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EX VIVO STUDY; GEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCAR FORMATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION;

CARTILAGE; CHONDROCYTES; HUMANS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645707041     PISSN: 17458382     EISSN: 17458390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncprheum0141     Document Type: Review

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