D N A of gut microbiota can be found in synovium of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. This finding could result from the translocation of still alive bacteria from gut to joints through blood, ...

A dual-drug hydrogel using dexamethasone and kartogenin supports cartilage repair by controlling inflammation and promoting ...

A research team from Northwest University, China, has developed a breakthrough nano-composite hydrogel system to address the ...

Researchers from Northwest University in China developed a nano-composite hydrogel loaded with dexamethasone and kartogenin for osteoarthritis ...

This is a useful study in the role of CHI3L1 in Kupffer cells, the macrophages of the liver, showing that CHI3L1 alters glucose regulation in obesity. Specifically, Chi3l1 protects glucose-dependent ...

Patients with intra-articular hip pathology have been reported to see 3.3 providers on average before being correctly diagnosed. 3 4 Thus, it is not uncommon for a patient to undergo inappropriate ...

The progressive degeneration of articular cartilage is an underlying problem in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA) as well as in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other inflammation arthritides. It ...

Water distribution of human osteoarthritic articular cartilage has been characterized using terahertz time domain spectroscopy. The evaluation of water content in cartilage tissue can be helpful to ...

Although reviews of osteoarthritis often contain a statement to the effect that it is not merely a disease of cartilage, the large amounts of time, money and brainpower that have been invested in ...

Malawista and Schubert 1 showed that 80 per cent of the chondroitin sulphate present in bovine nasal cartilage could be extracted from the tissue by homogenization in distilled water. Further ...

For these reasons, this study adds a novel tissue-engineering scaffold to the cartilage biomaterial community: NaOH-treated PLGA. Clearly, such surface and chemical modifications of PLGA may ...

This study investigates the association between the composition of coronary atherosclerotic plaque and CDI within coronary artery segments using virtual histology intravascular ultrasound (VH-IVUS).