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- Title
Joint Effort: Scientists Engineer Solutions for Repairing Damaged Cartilage.
- Authors
Friedrich, M. J.
- Abstract
Reports on new approaches to the repair of joint cartilage. Role of tissue engineering; How scientists, physicians and engineers are working together to develop techniques for production new and healthy cartilage, bone and other tissues with the intent to restore diseased or damaged tissues; Problems to be overcome by the multidisciplinary group; Cartilage's limited natural repair system which is due to a lack of vascularization; Role of chondrocytes with put another road block in the way; Current techniques for repairing cartilage;Engineering variations; Assessing cartilage health; Ongoing experiments.
- Subjects
CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE cells; REGENERATION (Biology); BONE regeneration; CELLS; GUIDED tissue regeneration; LIGAMENTS; JOINT diseases; TISSUES; SCIENTIFIC experimentation
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2004, Vol 291, Issue 22, p2685
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.291.22.2685