. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2013 Jan 23;21(4):634–641. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2013.01.007

Table II.

Biochemical properties of self-assembled neocartilage^*

Groups	Collagen/WW % (P < 0.0001)	GAG/WW % (P = 0.718)	PYR/WW (nmol/g) (P = 0.0036)	PYR/Col (nmol/mg) (P < 0.0001)
Groups	Control	3.03 ± 0.61^A	4.39 ± 2.10	4.99 ± 1.86^B	0.16 ± 0.030^D
1st & 3rd weeks	1.93 ± 1.27^B	3.84 ± 3.85	5.68 ± 1.00^A,B	0.30 ± 0.169^A
3rd & 4th weeks	3.33 ± 1.23^A	4.96 ± 3.44	6.63 ± 1.90^A	0.20 ± 0.034^C
4th week	3.03 ± 1.50^A	4.91 ± 3.50	5.19 ± 1.06^B	0.17 ± 0.105^C,D
Continuous	1.91 ± 0.44^B	4.44 ± 2.96	5.08 ± 1.88^B	0.26 ± 0.063^B

Biochemical properties of the engineered neocartilage as represented by Col/WW, GAG/WW, PYR/WW and PYR/Col. Values are mean ± 95% CI. Fisher’s post hoc testing was applied if P < 0.05. Groups not connected by the same letter are significantly different. See Results section for details. Col = collagen.