Cartilage, synthetic biodegradable polymers

Cao Y., Ibarra C., Vacanti J.P., Tissue engineering of cartilage and bone in Attala A., Mooney D.J., Vacanti J.P., Langer R. (eds) Synthetic Biodegradable Polymer Scaffolds, Birkhauser, Boston, 1997,199-214. 

Figure 2. Photograph of tissue engineered cartilage grown from synthetic biodegradable polymer mesh seeded with chondrocytes and then implanted for 7 weeks in a nude mouse.

Vacanti CA, Langer R, Schloo B, Vacanti JP. Synthetic Biodegradable Polymers Seeded with Chondrocytes Provide a Template for New Cartilage Formation In Vivo. Plast Reconstr Surg 1991 87 753-9... 

Vacanti, C. A., Langer, R., Schloo, B., and Vacanti, J. P, Synthetic biodegradable polymers seeded with chondrocytes provide a template for new cartilage formation in vivo, Plast. Reconstr. Surg., 87, 753-759 (1991). 

Cao Y, Ibarra C and Vacant J P, Tissue engineering of cartilage and bone . In Synthetic Biodegradable Polymer Scaffolds, ed. A Ataala, D J Mooney, J P Vacant and R Langer, Birkhauser, Boston, USA, 1997, 199-214. 

Kim W S, Vacanti J P, Cima L et al., Cartilage engineered in predetermined shapes employing cell transplantation on synthetic biodegradable polymers , Plast. Reconstr. Surg., 1994, 94, 233-7. 

Numerous studies have investigated the efficiency of using composite scaffolds composed of CS and other biopolymer materials, such as collagen or synthetic biodegradable polymer materials, for cartilage tissue engineering [15]. 

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