Discriminating Chondrogenic Progenitor Cells (CPCs) as a Distinct Cell Type, Apart from Normal Chondrocytes
Articular cartilage is an avascular, aneural, and alymphatic tissue with a structure consisting of a superficial, a middle and a deep zone, overlie a calcified zone at the cartilage border between. Each zone has biological and mechanical properties. Self-repair of damaged cartilage seldom if ever oc...
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University of Iowa
2013
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Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4933 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4890&context=etd |