Therapeutic Potential of Multilineage-Differentiating Stress-Enduring Cells for Osteochondral Repair in a Rat Model

Table 4

Macroscopic scores.

(a) Coverage

4 W			12 W
Control	Non-Muse	Muse	Control	Non-Muse	Muse
0.8 ± 0.4	1.3 ± 0.5	1.8 ± 0.8	0.5 ± 0.6	1.5 ± 0.5	3.5 ± 0.5

(b) Neocartilage color

4 W			12 W
Control	Non-Muse	Muse	Control	Non-Muse	Muse
0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	2.2 ± 0.8

(c) Defect margins

4 W			12 W
Control	Non-Muse	Muse	Control	Non-Muse	Muse
0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	2.3 ± 0.5

(d) Surface

4 W			12 W
Control	Non-Muse	Muse	Control	Non-Muse	Muse
0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	2.0 ± 0

Significantly better than control ().