Science news articles about 'cartilage damage'

... -maker" for surgeons assessing the damage of tissue surrounding focal cartilage damage, to decide how much cartilage needed to be operated on, and to what extent. Professor Oloyede said at the moment ...

Scientists have long wrestled with how to aid those who suffer cartilage damage and loss. One popular way is to inject an artificial gel that can imitate cartilage's natural ability to act as the body ...

... gets osteoarthritis; even those people who are not functionally impaired by the disease are found to have cartilage damage. And it all starts with the loss of cells in the superficial layer. We now ...

... joints. The scaffold could offer a potential new treatment for sports injuries and other cartilage damage, such as arthritis, says Lorna Gibson, the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science ...

... tissue that covers and protects the bones of the knee. Cartilage damage can occur due to excessive wear ... risk factors that might predict rapid cartilage loss in patients with early knee osteoarthritis ...

... approach to disease monitoring and prediction, and importantly could be useful predictors of bone and cartilage damage before such abnormalities have occurred." In the study, 84 patients with early ...

... the interaction of chondrocytes with immune cells, VCAM-1 may also contribute to immune-mediated cartilage damage. Establishing laboratory biomarkers of severe OA is important for a number of ...