Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 27.
Published in final edited form as: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2006;1:2647–2650. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260861

Fig. 2. Chondrogenic tissue engineered construct preparation.

Fig. 2

A. Freshly harvested bone marrow plated in culture dish. B. Mesenchymal stem cells adhered to plastic culture dish for expansion in basic culture medium (no chondrogenic factors added). C. Chitosan-GP in liquid form at room temperature and Chitosan-GP in gel form after 30 minutes at 37°C (body temperature). D. SEM of PLGA microspheres encapsulating TGFβ3. E. Light microscopy image of Chitosan-GP gel mixed with hMSCs and TGFβ3 encapsulating PLGA microspheres (final injectable solution).