Isolation of chondrocytes

[rchow]

Contact Andrew Hall at the Univ. of Edinburgh
ahall at srv4.med.ed.ac.uk

WB Lai wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I need a ready source of chondrocytes (the origin does not matter).  Is
> there some company I can buy it from?
> I have searched through the literature for methods to harvest chondrocytes
> from cartilage which were then subsequently cultured.  But there is little
> information on the cell number (concentration) obtainable from the isolation
> of chondrocytes from cartilage.  Is there anyone who has done this before?
> Please advise.
> Thank you very much.
>
> Regards,
> Wen Bin Lai
> Dept of Chemical Engineering