Hypoxia enhances chondrogenic differentiation of human adipose tissue-derived stromal cells in scaffold-free and scaffold systems

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 355, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-102

  Munir, Samir ^a,f   Foldager, Casper Bindzus ^a,e   Lind, Martin ^a   Zachar, Vladimir ^b   Søballe, Kjeld ^a   Koch, Thomas Gadegaard ^c,d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e RANDERS REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adipose derived stem cell; Cartilage neogenesis; Chondro Gide; Hypoxia; Porous collagen I III

Indexed keywords

AGGRECAN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 10; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSE TISSUE DERIVED STROMAL CELL; ADULT; AGGRECAN GENE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHONDROGENESIS; COLLAGEN I GENE; COLLAGEN II GENE; COLLAGEN X GENE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOX9 GENE; STROMA CELL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HYPOXIA; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROCYTES; CHONDROGENESIS; FEMALE; FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; STROMAL CELLS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84893671384     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-013-1732-5     Document Type: Article

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