Transforming Growth Factor Beta Signaling Is Essential for the Autonomous Formation of Cartilage-Like Tissue by Expanded Chondrocytes

• Adel Tekari,

  Affiliations Group for Bone Biology & Orthopaedic Research, Department Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Reto Luginbuehl,

  Affiliation RMS Foundation, Bettlach, Switzerland

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• Willy Hofstetter,

  Affiliation Group for Bone Biology & Orthopaedic Research, Department Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Rainer J. Egli

  * E-mail: rainer.egli@rms-foundation.ch

  Affiliations Group for Bone Biology & Orthopaedic Research, Department Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, RMS Foundation, Bettlach, Switzerland

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