News tagged with articular cartilage
Study identifies potential fix for damaged knees
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Investigators from Hospital for Special Surgery have shown that a biodegradable scaffold or plug can be used to treat patients with damaged knee cartilage. The study is unique in that it used serial magnetic resonance imaging ...
Study assesses new surgical procedure for regenerating cartilage in damaged knee joints
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Rush University Medical Center is testing a new procedure for regenerating damaged articular cartilage in the knee joint to relieve the pain of osteoarthritis. Rush is the only center in Illinois participating in the CAIS ...
Researchers offer first direct proof of how osteoarthritis destroys cartilage
Sep 02, 2008 |
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A team of orthopaedic researchers has found definitive, genetic proof of how the most common form of arthritis destroys joint cartilage in nearly 21 million aging Americans, according to a study published online Sept. 2 in ...
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Growing Cartilage from Stem Cells
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Damaged knee joints might one day be repaired with cartilage grown from stem cells in a laboratory, based on research by Professor Kyriacos Athanasiou, chair of the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering ...
Getting better visualization of joint cartilage through cationic CT contrast agents
Sep 01, 2009 |
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In its quest to find new strategies to treat osteoarthritis and other diseases, a Boston University-led research team has reported finding a new computer tomography contrast agent for visualizing the special distributions ...
Stem cells offer cartilage repair hope for arthritis sufferers
Apr 11, 2008 |
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Research being presented today at the UK National Stem Cell Network Annual Science Meeting in Edinburgh could offer hope that bone stem cells may be harnessed to repair the damaged cartilage that is one of the main symptoms ...
Scientists find cause of cartilage degeneration in osteoarthritis
Jan 12, 2009 |
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The scientists describe their work in this week's Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In the study, the team shows how the loss of the protein HMGB2, found in the surface layer of joint ...
Tissue engineered scaffolding allows reproduction of cartilage tissue
May 09, 2007 |
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A new study examines the use of tissue-engineered scaffolding made of cartilage cells, which have a limited ability to heal naturally, to replace defective cartilage tissue. Cartilage cells are extracted and seeded to the ...
Bone formation from embryonic stem cells
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Jojanneke Jukes of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has succeeded in growing bone tissue with the help of embryonic stem cells for the first time.
Diseased cartilage harbors unique migratory progenitor cells
Apr 02, 2009 |
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A new study finds previously unidentified fibrocartilage-forming progenitor cells in degenerating, diseased human cartilage, but not in cartilage from healthy joints. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 3rd ...
Hormone promises to keep joint injuries from causing long-term osteoarthritis
Sep 12, 2009 |
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An existing osteoporosis drug is the first ever found to prevent cartilage loss from osteoarthritis following injury to a joint, and may also regenerate some cartilage that has been lost to osteoarthritis, according to an ...
Jellyfish protein helps regrow joint cartilage
Feb 07, 2009 |
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Mucin, a protein extracted from Nomura's jellyfish, has proved highly effective in regrowing cartilage in joints, scientists in Japan claim.
Embryonic stem cells used to grow cartilage
Sep 06, 2007 |
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Rice University biomedical engineers have developed a new technique for growing cartilage from human embryonic stem cells, a method that could be used to grow replacement cartilage for the surgical repair of knee, jaw, hip, ...
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