The successful treatment of focal full-thickness articular defects of the knee has continued ... of a committed pathway to develop hyaline-like cartilage. This hyaline-like cartilage more closely ...

The report of the first 23 patients with full-thickness chondral defects, 16 with femoral condyle ... of 24 months demonstrated formation of new cartilage that was similar to surrounding normal ...

Figure 1: Application of adult MSCs to tissue engineering, illustrated by several approaches to articular cartilage repair. Cell-based tissue engineering is one of the most promising approaches in ...