Medical textbooks describe three types of cartilage: hyaline, elastic and fibrocartilage. Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints; elastic cartilage is very ...

“The main issue with the microfracture approach is that it often results in the formation of fibrocartilage — the same ...

Koay EJ and Athanasiou KA (2008) Hypoxic chondrogenic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells enhances cartilage protein synthesis and biomechanical functionality. Osteoarthritis Cartilage ...

Cartilage has limited repair capacity once damaged. Vertebrate skeletogenic cells of different embryonic origins are distinct cell types, based on their lineage-specific gene regulatory logic that ...