Open AccessRole of autologous chondrocyte transplantation in articular cartilage defects: An experimental study
Author(s) -
Amit Rastogi,
Pradeep Srivastava,
Zafer Iqbal,
Vinay Kumaraswamy,
Ravindra Pratap Singh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5413.108878
Subject(s) - medicine , articular cartilage , chondrocyte , transplantation , cartilage , autologous chondrocyte implantation , surgery , orthopedic surgery , anatomy , pathology , osteoarthritis , alternative medicine
Injuries of articular cartilage (AC) have very limited potential to heal, because they are avascular and this may subsequently lead to secondary arthrosis. Autologous cultured chondrocytes transplantation is can be used to create hyaline or hyaline-like repair in a cartilage defect area. The purpose of this study was to repair artificially created full-thickness AC defects in 20 rabbit knee joints with autologous cultured chondrocytes.