Amniotic membrane used to repair human articular cartilage

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 09:00 in Biology & Nature

Spanish scientists have proposed using human amniotic membrane as a new tool for repairing damaged human articular cartilage, which heals very poorly because of its low capacity for self-repair. Their research, published in the journal Cell and Tissue Banking, shows that the cellular density of the cartilage synthesized could be greater than that of the body's own natural cartilage.

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