Future treatment strategies for cartilage repair.
This article presents the advances in cartilage repair from improvements in current therapies to promising therapies using growth factors, scaffolds, and cellular therapy. These are strategies that will likely lead to promising clinical applications.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9000 West Wisconsin Avenue, PO Box 1997, Pediatric Orthopaedics, Suite C360, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA. Electronic address: rlyon@chw.org.
Roger
R
Lyon
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9000 West Wisconsin Avenue, PO Box 1997, Pediatric Orthopaedics, Suite C360, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA.
Xue-Cheng
XC
Liu
D002356:Cartilage / Q000637:transplantation*; D002358:Cartilage, Articular / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery*; D024042:Collagen Type I / Q000627:therapeutic use; D024043:Collagen Type II / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019637:Orthopedic Procedures / Q000639:trends*; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation; D023822:Tissue Engineering; D054457:Tissue Scaffolds
D024042:Collagen Type I; D024043:Collagen Type II; D036341:Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
Cartilage repair; Cell therapy; Growth factors; Scaffolds; Tissue engineering