@article {15177, title = {Assessment of the Suitability of Chitosan/PolyButylene Succinate Scaffolds Seeded with Mouse Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells for a Cartilage Tissue Engineering Approach}, journal = {Tissue Engineering - Part A }, volume = {14}, year = {2010}, month = {2010-04-13 00:00:00}, pages = {1651-1661}, abstract = {

In this work, scaffolds derived from a new biomaterial originated from the combination of a natural material and a synthetic material were tested for assessing their suitability for cartilage tissue engi- neering applications. In order to obtain a better outcome result in terms of scaffolds{\textquoteright} overall properties, different blends of natural and synthetic materials were created. Chitosan and polybutylene succinate (C- PBS) 50/50 (wt\%) were melt blended using a twin-screw extruder and processed into 5}, keywords = {cartilage, Chitosan, mesenchymal stem cells}, author = {Oliveira, J. T. and Correlo, V. M. and Sol, P. C. and Costa-Pinto, A. R. and Malafaya, P. B. and Salgado, A. J. and Bhattacharya, M. and Charbord, P. and Neves, N. M. and Reis, R. L.} }