Acta biomaterialiaAnimalsSwineMiniatureTissue EngineeringCartilage
Minipig costal and knee cartilage structure-function relationships and their use as cell sources for tissue-engineered analogous cellular products for cartilage repair.
Gaston A Otarola, Rachel C Nordberg, Jerry C Hu, Kyriacos A Athanasiou
Published: 202610.1016/j.actbio.2025.12.023
Abstract
Toward the development of biologic products intended to repair articular cartilage, this study evaluated native structure-function relationships of rib and knee cartilage and compared the capacity of articular chondrocytes (ACs) and costochondral cel…
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