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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2013
University of Leeds, Leeds Yorkshire, GB;
Eileen Ingham, Leeds, GB;
Gemma Jones, Leeds, GB;
Hazel Fermor, Leeds, GB;
John Fisher, Leeds, GB;
Jahid Hasan, Leeds, GB;
University of Leeds, , GB;
Abstract
The invention provides natural multi-composite bone implants such as bone-connective tissue-bone and osteochondral implants for the replacement and/or repair of, for example and in particular a damaged or defective bone-meniscus-bone joint or a bone-patella tendon-bone joint or osteochondral lesions, methods of preparing the composites and uses thereof. The invention also provides natural or native composite bone-connective tissue-bone and osteochondral matrices or scaffolds that are substantially decellularized for subsequent transplantation/implantation.