Bone marrow stimulation of the medial femoral condyle produces inferior cartilage and bone repair compared to the trochlea in a rabbit surgical model

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1757-1764

  Chen, Hongmei ^a   Chevrier, Anik ^a   Hoemann, Caroline D ^a   Sun, Jun ^b   Picard, Genevieve ^a   Buschmann, Michael D ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Piramal Enterprises Limited   (India)

Author keywords

bone marrow stimulation; cartilage repair; medial femoral condyle; meniscus degeneration; trochlea

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE MARROW; BONE MASS; BONE REMODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BONE); FEMALE; FEMUR CONDYLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STIMULATION; TRABECULAR BONE;

BONE MARROW STIMULATION; CARTILAGE REPAIR; MEDIAL FEMORAL CONDYLE; MENISCUS DEGENERATION; TROCHLEA;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; FEMUR; MENISCI, TIBIAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; RABBITS; WOUND HEALING; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84884910415     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: 1554527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.22422     Document Type: Article

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