Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative and chronic joint disease characterized by clinical
symptoms and distortion of joint tissues. It primarily damages joint cartilage, causing pain …

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis and a degenerative joint cartilage
disease that is the most common cause of disability in the world among the elderly. It leads …

Osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with cartilage degeneration and an accompanying
inflammatory syndrome of the synovium in addition to alteration of the subchondral bone …

One central hallmark of osteoarthritic cartilage degeneration is the loss of matrix molecules,
in particular proteoglycans. However, chondrocytes of osteoarthritic cartilage are generally …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is recognized to be an autoimmune disease that causes
preclinical systemic abnormalities and eventually leads to synovial inflammation and …

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease. Previous studies were focused on
general functions of chondrocyte population in OA without elucidating the existence of …

Osteoarthritis (OA) is often a progressive and disabling disease, which occurs in the setting
of a variety of risk factors–such as advancing age, obesity and trauma–that collude to incite …

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease that progressively causes loss of joint
function and is the leading source of physical disability and impaired quality of life in …

Chondrocyte is considered the only cell type in cartilage. However, the cell heterogeneity of
chondrocytes in human articular cartilage is still not well defined, which hinders our …