Host serum is not indispensable in collagen performance in viable meniscal transplantation at 4-week incubation

Viable meniscal transplantation has been criticized as an expensive and logistically demanding technique. The purpose was to compare the standard culture medium with another culture medium that is more widely available and easier to work with and to assess the collagen net ultrastructure architecture and the capacity of the preserved cells to produce proteins. Pablo Eduardo Gelber, Raúl Torres, Natalia Garcia-Giralt, Juan Erquicia, Ferran Abat and Juan Carlos Monllau. Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy. DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1722-7