Mechanisms of disease: role of chondrocytes in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis—structure, chaos and senescence

T Aigner, S Söder, PM Gebhard, A McAlinden… - Nature Clinical Practice …, 2007 - nature.com
The extracellular matrix of articular cartilage is the primary target of osteoarthritic cartilage
degradation. However, cartilage cells have a pivotal role during osteoarthritis, as they are …

[PDF][PDF] The regulation of the ADAMTS4 and ADAMTS5 aggrecanases in osteoarthritis: a review

J Bondeson, S Wainwright, C Hughes… - Clinical & …, 2008 - clinexprheumatol.org
Destruction of articular cartilage is a key feature of a number of arthritides, osteoarthritis
prominent among them. Aggrecan degradation, caused by increased activity of proteolytic …

Evaluation of the articular cartilage of the knee joint: value of adding a T2 mapping sequence to a routine MR imaging protocol

R Kijowski, DG Blankenbaker, A Munoz del Rio… - Radiology, 2013 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To determine whether the addition of a T2 mapping sequence to a routine magnetic
resonance (MR) imaging protocol could improve diagnostic performance in the detection of …

The disease modifying osteoarthritis drug (DMOAD): is it in the horizon?

P Qvist, AC Bay-Jensen, C Christiansen, EB Dam… - Pharmacological …, 2008 - Elsevier
Till date, the pharmaceutical industry has failed to bring effective and safe disease modifying
osteoarthritic drugs (DMOADs) to the millions of patients suffering from this serious and …

[HTML][HTML] Drug delivery in intervertebral disc degeneration and osteoarthritis: Selecting the optimal platform for the delivery of disease-modifying agents

F Colella, JP Garcia, M Sorbona, A Lolli… - Journal of controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Osteoarthritis (OA) and intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) as major cause of chronic
low back pain represent the most common degenerative joint pathologies and are leading …

[HTML][HTML] Undenatured type II collagen (UC-II) in joint health and disease: a review on the current knowledge of companion animals

H Gencoglu, C Orhan, E Sahin, K Sahin - Animals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common joint disease affecting humans and
animals, is a painful, degenerative, and inflammatory disease that affects synovial joints and …

Role of interleukin-1 inhibitors in osteoarthritis: an evidence-based review

Z Jotanovic, R Mihelic, B Sestan, Z Dembic - Drugs & aging, 2012 - Springer
Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common chronic musculoskeletal disease, represents a leading
cause of disability in the elderly population worldwide. At present, there is no aetiological …

[HTML][HTML] The current role of disease-modifying osteoarthritis drugs

EC Rodriguez-Merchan - Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Contemporary treatments for osteoarthritis (OA) pursue only to alleviate the pain caused by
the illness. Discovering disease-modifying osteoarthritis drugs (DMOADs) that can induce …

Increased chondrocyte death after steroid and local anesthetic combination

B Farkas, K Kvell, T Czömpöly, T Illés… - … and Related Research …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Background Hyaline articular cartilage has limited repair and regeneration capacity.
Intraarticular administration of glucocorticoid and local anesthetic injections play an …

Current evidence for osteoarthritis treatments

A Anandacoomarasamy… - Therapeutic advances in …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis and the leading cause of chronic
disability among older people. The burden of the disease is expected to rise with an aging …