“…Many animal models have been proposed in the past [1, 15, 30, 41, 47, 77, 88, 98, 104, 105, 114, 116, 126, 127, 130] for the study of the injured knee. Especially the anatomy of the rabbit knee has been well defined and has been found to be comparable with that of the human [27, 35, 66, 97].…”