Figure 1
Knee joint specimen obtained during arthroplasty and schematic representation of the sample collection protocol. The specimen included femoral condyle and tibial plateau cartilage from both the medial and the lateral compartments (a). Cartilage areas were labelled as follows: 1, medial condyle; 2, lateral condyle; 3, medial tibial plateau; 4, lateral tibial plateau; S, superficial layer; D, deep layer (b). |