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Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2011 Mar 10;19(7):911–918. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2011.03.002

Table 3.

Comparison of tissue thickness and cell density between knee articular cartilage and the TMJ disc.

Type of joint and species	Tissue thickness (mm)	Cell density (×10⁶cells/mL)	Reference
Rabbit knee	0.21	188	[22]
Dog knee	0.67	44.4	[22]
Bovine knee	1.7	19.8	[22]
Human knee	2.3	14.1	[22]
Porcine TMJ disc	2 – 4	51.3	Present study