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Review
. 2015 Apr:84:107-22.
doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2014.08.010. Epub 2014 Aug 29.

Tissue engineering strategies to study cartilage development, degeneration and regeneration

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Tissue engineering strategies to study cartilage development, degeneration and regeneration

Maumita Bhattacharjee et al. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2015 Apr.

Abstract

Cartilage tissue engineering has primarily focused on the generation of grafts to repair cartilage defects due to traumatic injury and disease. However engineered cartilage tissues have also a strong scientific value as advanced 3D culture models. Here we first describe key aspects of embryonic chondrogenesis and possible cell sources/culture systems for in vitro cartilage generation. We then review how a tissue engineering approach has been and could be further exploited to investigate different aspects of cartilage development and degeneration. The generated knowledge is expected to inform new cartilage regeneration strategies, beyond a classical tissue engineering paradigm.

Keywords: Cartilage tissue; Developmental biology; Drug targets; In vitro models; Scaffolds; Signals.

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