Hyaluronic Acid (HA), Platelet-Rich Plasm and Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) promote human chondrocyte regeneration in vitro and ESWT-mediated increase of CD44 expression enhances their susceptibility to HA treatment

• Mario Vetrano,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Danilo Ranieri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Monica Nanni,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Antonio Pavan,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliations Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Florence Malisan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Maria Chiara Vulpiani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Vincenzo Visco

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vincenzo.visco1@uniroma1.it

  Affiliations Sant’Andrea University Hospital, Rome, Italy, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5067-3121

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