Novel bilayered Gellan gum/Gellan gum hydroxyapatite scaffolds for osteochondral tissue engineering applications
Osteoarthritis is a major cause of disability during aging. By the age of 60, close to 100% of the population will have histologic changes of degeneration in their knee cartilage (Loeser, 2000). Because of its avascular nature, cartilage has little capacity to self-regenerate. Despite the progress a...
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| Formato: | conferenceObject |
| Idioma: | eng |
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2012
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| Texto completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/24110 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/24110 |