Abstract:

BACKGROUND: The cartilage damage is common in basketball exercise. With the application and development of tissue engineering and biological materials, cartilage tissue engineering or scaffold repair has become a trend.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the factors associated with cartilage damage in basketball exercise, with emphasis on the application of three elements concerned in the repair process of tissue engineering scaffold materials.
METHODS: An online search of PubMed database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed) and Wanfang database (http://www.wanfangdata.com.cn) between January 2005 and October 2010 was performed by the first author. English key words are “cartilage, damage, treatment, biological materials”, Chinese key words are “tissue engineering; cartilage injury; repair; biological materials; seed cells”. A total of 120 literatures were screened out, articles about cartilage treatment, materials science characteristics, biocompatibility, material modification, surface modification and its application were selected, old and repeated experiments were excluded. Those recently published or published in the authority magazine were preferred in the same area, and ultimately 30 literatures in accordance with the include criteria were involved.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The seed cells, scaffolds and in vitro culture environment are three elements for of cartilage tissue engineering, and compose a body of mutual promotion and mutual restraint. The appropriate selection and collocation of these 3 elements should be taken into consideration of repairing cartilage injury with tissue engineering technology.