Sentence examples for outer meniscus from inspiring English sources

Also excluded were patients with PCL lesions, those who had an autologous chondrocyte transplantation or mosaicplasty with more than one transplanted cylinder (or a cylinder larger than 1 cm), bone tendon bone grafts, those with more than 50% of the inner or outer meniscus resected and patients with axis deformities or underlying diseases that produced physical impairment.

If the tear is in the outer meniscus -- or the patient is older -- surgery might not be the best option.

Each knee has an inner and outer meniscus -- cushiony discs of cartilage that help stabilize and keep weight distributed evenly across the knee joint.

We showed that, in aggregate cultures of human inner and outer meniscus cells in the presence of TGF-β1, hypoxia (5%) increased the expression of Sox9 in outer meniscus cells but not in inner meniscus cells [ 44].

The type II collagen response to lowered oxygen was thus greater in the cells cultured from the outer meniscus.

The cells from the outer meniscus again exhibited a greater response to 5% oxygen than did the cells from the inner meniscus.

Co-culture of inner (MCI) or outer (MCO) meniscus cells with MSCs resulted in neo-tissue with increased (up to 2.2-fold) proteoglycan (GAG) matrix content relative to tissues formed from mono-cultures of MSCs, MCI and MCO.

Moreover, our DNA data are consistent with the findings of Furumatsu and colleagues [ 43], who showed that the proliferation rates of both inner and outer human meniscus cells were the same in the presence of TGF-β1 (10 ng/mL) as used in this study.

Co-culture of outer or inner meniscus cells with MSCs exhibit similar capacity to synthesis cartilaginous matrix with increased collagen II and proteoglycan content relative to mono-cultures of MSCs, outer or inner meniscus cells.

Additionally, it is probable that differences in the multi-potential characteristics of outer and inner meniscus cells play a contributing factor.

We also wished to determine whether the cells isolated from the outer and inner meniscus in culture differed in their response to lowered oxygen tension.