Physicochemical and Biomechanical Stimuli in Cell-Based Articular Cartilage Repair

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Jahr, Holger ^a,b   Matta, Csaba ^b,c,d   Mobasheri, Ali ^b,c,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b The D BOARD European Consortium for Biomarker Discovery   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Autologous chondrocyte implantation; Cartilage bioengineering; Cartilage repair; Chondrocyte metabolism; Functional tissue engineering; Intracellular signaling pathways; Mesenchymal stem cell; Regenerative medicine

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ION CHANNEL; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROCYTE IMPLANTATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING; CHONDROCYTE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; WEIGHT BEARING; WOUND HEALING;

CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CHONDROCYTES; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; REGENERATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84926433806     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-014-0493-9     Document Type: Review

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