ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Fabrication of cartilage tissue substitutes from cells with induced pluripotency

About authors

1 Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia

2 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

3 Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Artem V. Eremeev
Malaya Pirogovskaya, 1a, 119435, Moscow, Russia; ur.xednay@veemere-tra

About paper

Funding: the study was supported with an allocation #22-15-00250 by the Russian Science Foundation.

Acknowledgments: the authors thank Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences M.A. Lagarkova for providing research facilities for the study

Author contribution: Eremeev AV — design of the experiment, general guidance, article authoring; Pikina AS — literature review, collection of the material, participation in the experimental part of the work, analysis of the resulting data; Ruchko ES — participation in the experimental part of the work; Sidorov VS, Ragozin AO — provision of material for the experiment.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was performed in conformity with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (2000) and its subsequent revisions.

Received: 2022-10-12 Accepted: 2022-10-28 Published online: 2022-11-23
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