Osteochondral tissue engineering with biphasic scaffold: Current strategies and techniques

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 468-476

  Shimomura, Kazunori ^a,b   Moriguchi, Yu ^a   Murawski, Christopher D ^b   Yoshikawa, Hideki ^a   Nakamura, Norimasa ^c,d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OSAKA HEALTH SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE; CELL ENGINEERING; TISSUE;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; BIPHASIC SCAFFOLDS; CLINICAL THERAPY; FABRICATION METHOD; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; OSTEOCHONDRAL LESIONS; OSTEOCHONDRAL REPAIRS; OSTEOCHONDRAL TISSUE ENGINEERING;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

BIOMATERIAL; GLASS; METAL; POLYMER; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CERAMICS; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOBLAST; REVIEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE REPAIR; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG EFFECTS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84907896796     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2013.0543     Document Type: Review

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