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Basic science of articular cartilage repair
K A Athanasiou1, A R Shah, R J Hernandez
1Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.
Clinics in Sports Medicine
|June 12, 2001
Abstract:
As the ability to understand the peculiarities of successful healing of articular cartilage defects moves forward, it becomes clear that this complex orthopaedic problem soon will be successfully addressed. A multidisciplinary approach, combining clinical experience, cogent biomaterial designs, new cell biologic processes, biomechanical assessment, and modern molecular biology, clearly is leading toward clinically acceptable, viable, and consistent articular cartilage regeneration.