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SUBMITTER: Kim DH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6879705 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Do Hyun DH Lim Mi Hyun MH Jeun Jung Ho JH Park Sun Hwa SH Lee WeonSun W Park Sang Hi SH Kwon Mi Yeon MY Hwang Se Hwan SH Kim Sung Won SW
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine 20190819 6
<h4>Background</h4>In this study, we manufactured a complex of human nasal septal cartilage (hNC) with polycaprolactone (PCL) for transplantation into cartilaginous skeletal defects and evaluated their characteristics.<h4>Methods</h4>Nasal septum tissue was obtained from five patients aged ≥ 20 years who were undergoing septoplasty. hNCs were isolated and subcultured for three passages <i>in vitro</i>. To formulate the cell-PCL complex, we used type I collagen as an adhesive between chondrocyte ...[more]