“…Mechanical evaluation has often been overlooked in AUR cartilage TE attempts. Many authors (Arevalo-Silva et al, 2000;Cao et al, 1998Cao et al, , 1997Haisch et al, 2002;Isogai et al, 2004Isogai et al, , 2008Kamil et al, 2004Kamil et al, , 2003Kusuhara et al, 2009;Liu et al, 2010;Neumeister et al, 2006;Ruszymah et al, 2011;Saim et al, 2000;Shieh et al, 2004;Xu et al, 2005) report a qualitative mechanical assessment, while a few publications report quantitative data but without comparison to human AUR cartilage (Bichara et al, 2010;Britt and Park, 1998;Chang et al, 2003;Isogai et al, 2005;Ting et al, 1998). Indentation has been shown previously to be a good and sensitive first approximation for direct comparison between native and tissue-engineered constructs (Duda et al, 2000).…”