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Kyriacos A. Athanasiou
Researcher at University of California, Irvine
Publications - 446
Citations - 29536
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cartilage & Tissue engineering. The author has an hindex of 86, co-authored 425 publications receiving 26353 citations. Previous affiliations of Kyriacos A. Athanasiou include Baylor College of Medicine & University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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Sterilization, toxicity, biocompatibility and clinical applications of polylactic acid/polyglycolic acid copolymers
TL;DR: Biocompatibility and toxicity studies suggest that, overall, PLA-PGA biomaterials may be suitable for orthopaedic applications, although certain problems, especially pertaining to reduction in cell proliferation, have been reported.
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Repair and tissue engineering techniques for articular cartilage
Eleftherios Makris,Andreas H. Gomoll,Konstantinos N. Malizos,Jerry C. Hu,Kyriacos A. Athanasiou +4 more
TL;DR: Current, widely used clinical repair techniques for resurfacing articular cartilage defects and a developmental pipeline of acellular and cellular regenerative products and techniques that could revolutionize joint care over the next decade by promoting the development of functional articular Cartilage are described.
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Unlike Bone, Cartilage Regeneration Remains Elusive
TL;DR: Bone-regeneration successes are used to highlight cartilage- Regeneration challenges: such as selecting appropriate cell sources and scaffolds, creating biomechanically suitable tissues, and integrating to native tissue.
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The knee meniscus: structure-function, pathophysiology, current repair techniques, and prospects for regeneration.
TL;DR: Although the problems accompanying meniscus tissue engineering research are considerable, the authors are undoubtedly in the dawn of a new era, whereby recent advances in biology, engineering, and medicine are leading to the successful treatment of meniscal lesions.
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Interspecies comparisons of in situ intrinsic mechanical properties of distal femoral cartilage
Kyriacos A. Athanasiou,Melvin P. Rosenwasser,Joseph A. Buckwalter,Theodore I. Malinin,Van C. Mow +4 more
TL;DR: The results lead to the conclusion that patellar groove cartilage can undergo greater and faster compression under high compressive loads and can more rapidly compress to create a congruent patellofemoral joint articulation.