Increased chondrocyte seeding density has no positive effect on cartilage repair in an MPEG-PLGA scaffold

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 485-493

  Hansen, Ole Møller ^a   Foldager, Casper Bindzus ^a   Christensen, Bjørn Borsøe ^a   Everland, Hanne ^b   Lind, Martin ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Global R and D   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Animal model; Cell seeding density; Chondrocyte implantation; qRT PCR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872665433     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-012-1996-4     Document Type: Article

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