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Transplantation

Reports from University Medical Center highlight recent research in transplantation

Published in Blood Weekly, December 25th, 2008

According to recent research from Hamburg, Germany, " Because articular cartilage shows little intrinsic capacity of spontaneous regeneration, a variety of treatment options are currently at use to repair cartilage damage. One of these is the autologous osteochondral transplantation (AOT)."

"The aim of the present work was to study the histological changes during the progress of 1 year after AOT in the knee joint. Materials and methods Twelve Minipigs underwent an AOT on the medial femoral condyles of both knees using cooled diamond studded trephines with a diameter of the grafts of 4.6 mm. Three animals were sacrificed at each 2, 8, 26 and 52 weeks after the operation....

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