Three-Dimensional Porous Scaffold of Hyaluronic Acid for Cartilage Tissue Engineering

Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages 329-349

  Kim, Dae Duk ^a   Kim, Dong Hwan ^a   Son, Yun Jeong ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Articular Cartilage; Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation; Chondrogenic Differentiation; Hyaluronic Acid; Mesenchymal Stem Cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861604651     PISSN: 18682006     EISSN: 18682014     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/8415_2010_51     Document Type: Chapter

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