Table 1.

Repair tissue gross morphology scoring parameters. Parameters used to score goat repair tissue morphology. The total score was multiplied by the total percentage of defect fill to give the normalized grade score for each goat lesion

Characteristic	Grading	Score
Test article or repair tissue presence in defect	Present	2
	Partial	1
	None visible	0
Edge integration (new tissue relative to native cartilage)	Present	2
	Partial	1
	None visible	0
Smoothness of the cartilage surface	Present	2
	Partial	1
	None visible	0
Cartilage surface, degree of filling	Present	2
	Partial	1
	None visible	0
Color of cartilage, opacity, or translucency of the neocartilage	Present	2
	Partial	1
	None visible	0