Articular chondrocyte culturing for cell-based cartilage repair: Needs and perspectives

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-15

  Giannoni, Paolo ^a,b   Cancedda, Ranieri ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autologous chondrocyte implantation; Cartilage repair; Cell cultivation; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CANCER GROWTH FACTOR; COLECALCIFEROL; DEXAMETHASONE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; OVOTRANSFERRIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PROSTANOID; RETINOIC ACID; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN; STEROID; THYROID HORMONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR;

CARTILAGE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; EMBRYO GROWTH; HUMAN; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TISSUE REPAIR;

EID: 33845901500     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096946     Document Type: Review

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