Micromechanical properties of chondrocytes and chondrons: Relevance to articular cartilage tissue engineering

Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1059-1086

  Ofek, Gidon ^a   Athanasiou, Kyriacos A ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Chondrocyte; Chondron; Gene expression; Mechanical modeling; Mechanotransduction; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548702245     PISSN: 15593959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/jomms.2007.2.1059     Document Type: Review

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