Collagen in tissue-engineered cartilage:
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J. Riesle; A.P. Hollander; R. Langer; L.E. Freed; G. Vunjak-Novakovic
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The function of articular cartilage as a weight-bearing tissue depends on the specific arrangement of collagen types II and IX into a three-dimensional organized collagen network that can balance the swelling pressure of the proteoglycan/water gel. To determine whether cartilage engineered in vitro