objective articular cartilage as an avascular skeletal tissue possesses limited capacity to heal. on the other hand, it is believed that the regeneration capacity of each tissue is largely related to its stem cell contents. little is known about the presence of mesenchymal stem cells in articular cartilage tissue. this subject is investigated in the present study. materials and methods articula...

OBJECTIVE Trauma-associated cartilage fractures occur in children and adolescents with clinically significant incidence. Several studies investigated biomechanical injury by compressive forces but the injury-related stress has not been investigated extensively. In this study, we hypothesized that the biomechanical stress occurring during compressive injury predetermines the biomechanical, bioch...

Isolated chondrocytes dedifferentiate to a fibroblast-like shape on plastic substrata and proliferate extensively, but rarely form nodules. However, when dissociation is not complete and some cartilage remnants are included in the culture, proliferation decreases and cells grow in a reticular pattern with numerous nodules, which occasionally form small cartilage-like fragments. In an attempt to...

INTRODUCTION Cartilage protein distribution and the changes that occur in cartilage ageing and disease are essential in understanding the process of cartilage ageing and age related diseases such as osteoarthritis. The aim of this study was to investigate the peptide profiles in ageing and osteoarthritic (OA) cartilage sections using matrix assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry...

In recent years the lysosomal cathepsins have been implicated as important agents in the physiological degradation of various cartilages. In the present study, the nature of cathepsin present in human articular cartilage was investigated by microtechniques and a possible role for cathepsins in the cartilage degradation observed in osteoarthritis was sought. The results of this study indicated t...

Populations of two coral reef shark species are declining rapidly: the pattern of decline highlights both the substantial impact of poaching on closed areas and the success of strict no-entry marine protected areas in maintaining healthy shark populations.

Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are compounds found in shark cartilage (Carcharhinus sorrah). The two have many health benefits, that is wound healing helping the process of angiogenesis. This study aims to determine content glucosamine (SC) extract. method used was High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with potassium phosphate buffer solution at pH 3. results this research were SC ...

BACKGROUND Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease that results in the destruction of cartilage. Edible Bird's Nest (EBN) extract contains important components, which can reduce the progression of osteoarthritis and helps in the regeneration of the cartilage. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of EBN extract on the catabolic and anabolic activities of the human articu...

High-buoyant-density proteoglycan aggregates could not be prepared from extracts of adult human cartilage by associative CsCl-density-gradient centrifugation with a starting density of 1.68 g/ml, even though proteoglycan subunits, hyaluronic acid and link proteins were all present. In contrast, aggregates could be prepared when extracts of neonatal human cartilage or bovine nasal cartilage were...

INTRODUCTION Osteoarthritis (OA) is a multifactorial disease that is characterized primarily by the progressive loss of articular cartilage. The progression of the disease is marked by the loss of collagen and proteoglycan (PG) content of the cartilage. Current radiological imaging techniques are limited to observing morphological changes that occur at relatively late stages of the disease [1]....