Cartilage Tissue Engineering

摘要: Cartilage damage is of great clinical consequence given the tissue’s limited intrinsic potential for healing. Current treatments cartilage repair are less than satisfactory, and rarely restore full function or return tissue to its native normal state. Methods such as autografting, allografting use man-made materials devices have been developed but each has some major disadvantages1. Even then, a large number surgical procedures that require organ substitutes replace damaged diseased organs tissues performed every year2.