Cartilage hydrogel polymers

Passaretti, D., Silverman, R. P, Huang, W. et al. 2001. Cultured chondrocytes produce injectable tissue-engineered cartilage in hydrogel polymer. Tissue Eng 7 805-15. 

To date, a number of nanoshuctures based on biomolecules including peptides or biological polymers have been devised and fabricated for musculoskeletal repair and tissue engineering applications. These nanoshuctures are usually in the forms of hydrogel and/or self-assembled macromolecules, which will be introduced with more details in Chapter 6. Here, a few examples on cartilage and bone regeneration are given. 

Jaramillo-Botero A et al (2010) First-principles based approaches to nano-mechanical and biomimetic characterization of polymer-based hydrogel networks for cartilage scaffold-supported therapies. J Comput Theor Nanosci 7(7) 1238—1256... 

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