**Meet the editors**

Alessandro R. Zorzi lives in São Paulo (Brazil), where he works as orthopedic surgeon and researcher at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein. He obtained his MD degree at Ribeirão Preto Medicine School (University of São Paulo, USP) in 1999 and his MSc and PhD degrees at UNI-CAMP. He does research in the field of meniscus and

cartilage regeneration and in the surgical treatment of osteoarthrosis. He has an interest in scientific divulgation and is the editor of the blog Femur-Distal. He is married to Giovana and is the father of Ana Laura and Davi.

Professor João Batista de Miranda is the chairman of the Division of Knee Surgery and Inflammatory Diseases, at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Campinas State University (Unicamp), Brazil. He performs teaching activities with medical students, orthopedic fellows, and postgraduating researchers. He also develops research and clinical care. He is currently the superintendent of

the Unicamp Teaching Hospital. Prof. Miranda obtained the title of PhD with an experimental study on bone regeneration and on allografts. He has published several scientific articles in international journals and is the coeditor of the book *Bone Grafting* of InTechOpen.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Viruses: Friends and Foes 3**

Penny A. Rudd and Lara J. Herrero

Chapter 2 **Chondrocyte Turnover in Lung Cartilage 25**

Chapter 3 **Alternative Therapeutic Approach for Cartilage Repair 43**

Chapter 4 **Cell Therapy and Tissue Engineering for Cartilage Repair 57** María Piñeiro-Ramil, Rocío Castro-Viñuelas, Clara Sanjurjo-Rodríguez, Tamara Hermida-Gómez, Isaac Fuentes-Boquete, Francisco J. de Toro-Santos, Francisco J. Blanco-García and Silvia M.

Chapter 5 **Macroscopic Anatomy, Histopathology, and Image Diagnosis**

Flávio Ribeiro Alves, Renan Paraguassu de Sá Rodrigues, Andrezza Braga Soares da Silva, Gerson Tavares Pessoa, Laecio da Silva Moura, Jacyara de Jesus Rosa Pereira Alves, Kássio Vieira Macedo

**of Joints and Synovial Cartilages 79**

Gilberto Jaramillo-Rangel

and Élen Landgraf Guiguer

Díaz-Prado

and Robson Giglio

**Section 2 Orthopedics 77**

Yareth Gopar-Cuevas, Alberto Niderhauser-García, Adriana Ancer-Arellano, Ivett C. Miranda-Maldonado, María-de-Lourdes Chávez-Briones, Laura E. Rodríguez-Flores, Marta Ortega-Martínez and

Marina Cristina Akuri, Mariana Ricci Barion, Sandra Maria Barbalho

**Section 1 Basic Science 1**
