Tissue Engineering

Data on tissue engineering reported by researchers at Goteborg University, Department of Orthopaedics

Published in Blood Weekly, June 12th, 2008

Research findings, 'Autologous chondrocyte implantation--technique and long-term follow-up,' are discussed in a new report. "Cartilage has a limited capacity for self repair after injury. This biological deficiency has led to a variety of surgical attempts to improve the repair of injured articular cartilage surfaces over the past 50 years," investigators in Kungsbacka, Sweden report.

"The first example of clinical cartilage tissue engineering was performed in 1987 when a knee with an articular cartilage defect on the femoral condyle was treated by implanting the patient's own chondrocytes that had been expanded in vitro into the defect in combination with a covering...

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