Tissue engineering in space.
The purpose of this paper is to present the status of that part of the [Microgravity Application Program] project related to the study of cartilage formation from pig chondrocytes. The work carried out so far followed two lines: (i) chondrocytes were incubated for up to three weeks in the RPM; (ii) a module developed for in-vitro cartilage formation will be tested in a sounding rocket flight (MASER 9, November 2001).
Conza
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Space Biology, ETH Zurich.
Mainil-Varlet
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P
Rieser
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F
Kraemer
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J
Bittmann
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P
Huijser
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R
van den Bergh
L
L
Cogoli
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A
D000818:Animals; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation; D002356:Cartilage / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D019902:Chondrocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013552:Swine; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014893:Weightlessness; D018474:Weightlessness Simulation