The top-down calcification process started with spherical mineral particle formation in the joint surface during early-stage OA (OA-E), followed by fibre formation and densely packed material ...

Cartilage development is the formation of cartilage by specialised cells called chondrocytes. These secrete large amounts of the cartilage extracellular matrix, which contains collagen and ...

This thick fluid may help ease pain and swelling in your knee. The bones that make up your joints normally have a cap of cartilage on their ends. This cartilage helps make sure that your bones move ...

The Tidemark Theatre's Campbell River Film Festival will showcase at least five movies between January and March. According to the theatre's press release, the selection is diverse and promises to ...

yet not fully integrated with normal cartilage tissue; the Zn-AlgMA@Mg group showed a tidemark between subchondral bone and cartilage, abundant new and mature bone tissue in the bone defect area, ...

Chondrocyte clusters were not observed and the tidemark was intact. In the OA group, the cartilage surface was rough, cracks were seen, and the chondrocyte number was decreased and disorderly arranged ...