background in recent years, there is an increasing tendency to use diced cartilage grafts in rhinoplasty surgery for improving dorsum contour irregularities. this study was designed to compare graft resorption between three techniques of diced cartilage using surgical blade, electrical grinder and grater in rabbit model. methods thirteen new zealand rabbits were divided into three groups. three...

Cartilage Repair In article number 2101127 by Lewis W. Francis, Francesca Taraballi, and co-workers, a biomimetic immune tuning scaffold is implanted in full-thickness chondral defect rabbits. The early inflammatory infiltrates changed the treated animals resulting better cartilage homeostasis at longer timepoints. This work represents first approach of reaction with bulk material to achieve re...

OBJECTIVE In the past few years access to the Internet has become readily available. Patients are increasingly seeking and obtaining health information through the Internet, most often the World Wide Web (WWW). We assessed the content, authorship, and scope of the information available on WWW in relation to rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS In an attempt to replicate use by the average person, a ...

High levels of the vitamin K-dependent matrix Gla protein (MGP) have been found in the calcified costal cartilage of the cow and the calcified vertebral cartilage of the soupfin shark (Galeorhinus galeus). In both species, MGP accounts for 35-40% of the total protein in the acid demineralization extract of calcified cartilage, and the mineral content of calcified cartilage is comparable to that...

Objective(s): Because leishmaniasis is related to the impaired functioning of T-cells, the use of an immunomodulator can increase the efficacy of antileishmanial therapy in visceral leishmaniasis. In this study, we used shark cartilage extract with artemisinin and glucantime against visceral leishmaniasis in BALB/c mice, and evaluated the synergistic therapeutic effect. Materials and Methods: Th...

It has been demonstrated that hypophysectomy decreased the rate of incorporation of radiosulfate into cartilage of rats and that the administration of growth hormone resulted in a remarkable rise of the uptake of labeled sulfate (Ellis et al., 1953;Denko and Bergenstal, 1955; Murphy et al., 1956). In order to clarify the mechanism of notable action of pituitary growth hormone on the growth of c...

Regulation of cell volume is a fundamental cellular homeostatic mechanism in the face of osmotic stress. In normal articular cartilage, chondrocytes are exposed to a changing osmotic environment. We present a comprehensive protocol for studying the volume regulatory behavior of chondrocytes within intact cartilage tissue using confocal laser-scanning microscopy. Our data acquisition regime opti...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease characterized by joint pain and progressive loss of articular cartilage. Entada pursaetha has been traditionally used in the treatment of inflammatory disease, liver ailment, etc. In this study we investigated suppressive effect of ethanolic extract of E. pursaetha (EPE) on monosodium iodoacetate (MIA)-induced osteoarthritis ...