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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-11-22
pubmed:abstractText
The nude mouse model is an established method to cultivate and investigate tissue engineered cartilage analogues under in vivo conditions. One limitation of this common approach is the lack of appropriate surrounding articular tissues. Thus the bonding capacity of cartilage repair tissue cannot be evaluated. Widely applied surgical techniques in cartilage repair such as conventional and three-dimensional autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) based on a collagen gel matrix cannot be included into nude mouse studies, since their application require a contained defect. The aim of this study is to apply an organ culture defect model for the in vivo cultivation of different cell-matrix-constructs. Cartilage defects were created on osteochondral specimens which had been harvested from 10 human knee joints during total knee replacement. Autologous chondrocytes were isolated from the cartilage samples and cultivated in monolayer until passage 2. On each osteochondral block defects were treated either by conventional ACI or a collagen gel seeded with autologous chondrocytes, including a defect left empty as a control. The samples were implanted into the subcutaneous pouches of nude mice and cultivated for six weeks. After retrieval, the specimens were examined histologically, immunohistochemically and by cell morphology quantification. In both, ACI and collagen gel based defect treatment, a repair tissue was formed, which filled the defect and bonded to the adjacent tissues. The repair tissue was immature with low production of collagen type II. In both groups redifferentiation of chondrocytes remained incomplete. Different appearances of interface zones between the repair tissue and the adjacent cartilage were found. The presented contained defect organ culture model offers the possibility to directly compare different types of clinically applied biologic cartilage repair techniques using human articular tissues in a nude mouse model.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0959-2989
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
357-66
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Cartilage, Articular, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Chondrocytes, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Collagen Type II, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Connective Tissue Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Female, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Guided Tissue Regeneration, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Implants, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Mice, Nude, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Organ Culture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Tissue Engineering, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Tissue Scaffolds, pubmed-meshheading:18032817-Wound Healing
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
In vivo cultivation of human articular chondrocytes in a nude mouse-based contained defect organ culture model.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany. rmueller-rath@ukaachen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article