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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Mater Res A. 2018 Apr 30;106(8):2344–2355. doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.36412

Figure 1.

Figure 1

A schematic of the hydrogel precursors and the encapsulation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) in a MMP7-sensitive cartilage mimetic hydrogel. Hydrogel precursors included 8-arm PEG functionalized with norbornene, MMP7-sensitive peptide flanked with cysteines on each end, thiolated chondroitin sulfate, and cysteine containing RGD sequence.