Amniotic membrane used to repair human articular cartilage

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

"The objective was to evaluate the utility of cryo-preserved human amniotic membrane (HAM) as a support for repairing human articular cartilage injuries, which have a very limited capacity for self-healing", Francisco J. Blanco, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Research of La Coruña (INIBIC), tells SINC.

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