title: Nondestructive Techniques to Evaluate the Characteristics and Development of Engineered Cartilage.
abstract: In this review, methods for evaluating the properties of tissue engineered (TE) cartilage are described. Many of these have been developed for evaluating properties of native and osteoarthritic articular cartilage. However, with the increasing interest in engineering cartilage, specialized methods are needed for nondestructive evaluation of tissue while it is developing and after it is implanted. Such methods are needed, in part, due to the large inter- and intra-donor variability in the performance of the cellular component of the tissue, which remains a barrier to delivering reliable TE cartilage for implantation. Using conventional destructive tests, such variability makes it near-impossible to predict the timing and outcome of the tissue engineering process at the level of a specific piece of engineered tissue and also makes it difficult to assess the impact of changing tissue engineering regimens. While it is clear that the true test of engineered cartilage is its performance after it is implanted, correlation of pre and post implantation properties determined non-destructively in vitro and/or in vivo with performance should lead to predictive methods to improve quality-control and to minimize the chances of implanting inferior tissue.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2123 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Glennan Building Room 616A, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA. joseph.mansour@case.edu.
authors.forename: Joseph M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Mansour
authors.affiliation: Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Zhenghong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Biology (Skeletal Research Center), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Jean F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Welter
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002356:Cartilage / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D023822:Tissue Engineering
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