Journal
JOURNAL OF TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 696-701Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/term.473
Keywords
bioreactor; sensor; tissue engineering; quality control; perfusion; chondrocyte
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- European Union [FP6-NMP3-CT-2005-500465]
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Regulatory guidelines have established the importance of introducing quantitative quality controls during the production and/or at the time of release of cellular grafts for clinical applications. In this study we aimed to determine whether on-line measurements of oxygen can be used as a non-destructive method to estimate the number of chondrocytes within an engineered cartilage graft. Human chondrocytes were seeded and cultured in a perfusion bioreactor, and oxygen levels in the culture medium were continuously monitored at the inlet and outlet of the bioreactor chamber throughout the culture period. We found that the drop in oxygen across the perfused construct was linearly correlated with the number of cells per construct (R2?=?0.82, p?
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