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- 9Articular cartilage
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- 1Adesida, Adetola B (Surgery)
- 1Adesida, Adetola B. (Surgery)
- 1Bagnall, Keith (Department of Surgery)
- 1Elliott, Janet A W (Chemicals and Material Engineering)
- 1Elliott, Janet A. W. (Chemical & Materials Engineering and Laboratory Medicine & Pathology)
- 1Elliott, Janet A.W. (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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2012
Elliott, J. A., Zhou, X., McGann, L. E., Adesida, A. B., Abazari, A., Law, G. K., Laouar, L., Forbes, J. F., Jomha, N. M., Maghdoori, B.
Articular cartilage injuries do not heal and large defects result in osteoarthritis with major personal and socioeconomic costs. Osteochondral transplantation is an effective treatment for large joint defects but its use is limited by the inability to store cartilage for long periods of time....
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Versatile Polymer-Based Nanomedicines for Drug/Gene Delivery and Cell-based Therapy Applications
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Advances in polymer science and nanotechnology have allowed the development of biomaterials for cell-based applications, such as the delivery of a variety of drugs and genes, as well as supporting technologies, such as stem cell therapies, tissue engineering and cryopreservation. The progress in...
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The role of cultured chondrocytes and mesenchymal stem cells in the repair of acute articular cartilage injuries
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disease that has significant individual, social, and economic impact worldwide. Although many etiologies lead to the eventual development of OA, one potentially treatable cause is the acute articular cartilage (AC) injury. These injuries are common and have a poor...
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Statistical prediction of the vitrifiability and glass stability of multi-component cryoprotective agent solutions.
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Forbes, J. F., Law, G. K., Weiss, A. D., Scheuerman, A., McGann, L. E., Elliott, J. A., Jomha, N. M.
Long-term biologic storage of articular cartilage has proven elusive due to cellular degradation over time or acute damage during attempts at cryopreservation. Vitrification is one option that may result in successful cryopreservation but difficulty with cryoprotective agent (CPA) toxicity at...
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Fall 2016
Articular cartilage injury is a major risk factor for the development of osteoarthritis, a condition that results in significant patient morbidity and substantial cost to the healthcare system. Due to the limited capacity of articular cartilage to regenerate, early intervention is required to...
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Fall 2015
Cryopreserving cells for human health therapeutics is a multidisciplinary process with great complexity. Cryopreservation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) has facilitated vascular biology research since they were first isolated in 1973 [59]; however identifying key variables to...
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2014-09-26
Rekieh, K., Abazari, A., Elliott, J.A., Jomha, N.M., Law, G.K., McGann, L.E.
Objective: Osteochondral allografting is an effective method to treat large osteochondral defects but difficulties in tissue preservation have significantly limited the application of this technique. Successful cryopreservation of articular cartilage (AC) could improve the clinical availability...
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Fall 2015
Osteoarthritis, a disease resulting in the breakdown of cartilage and bone within joints, is a global burden that is growing in scope. There is no cure for osteoarthritis, and the current treatments are all lacking in some form or another. One treatment which attempts to prevent degeneration of...
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Spring 2013
A major barrier to reclamation after oil sands mining is lack of commercially available, diverse native plant seeds and propagules for revegetation. Potential of LFH (forest floor material) developed on coarse textured soil for establishing native plants and how salvage, placement and storage...
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Modeling the transport of cryoprotective agents in articular cartilage for cryopreservation
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Loading vitrifiable concentrations of cryoprotective agents is an important step for cryopreservation of biological tissues by vitrification for research and transplantation purposes. This may be done by immersing the tissue in a cryoprotective agent (CPA) solution, and increasing the...