Modification of articular cartilage and subchondral bone pathology in an ovine meniscectomy model of osteoarthritis by avocado and soya unsaponifiables (ASU)

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 404-411

  Cake, M A ^a,b   Read, R A ^a   Guillou, B ^b   Ghosh, P ^c  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Pharmasciences   (France)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

ASU; Cartilage; Image analysis; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

SOYBEAN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE PLATE; CARTILAGE CELL; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMUR CONDYLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MENISCECTOMY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SYNOVIUM;

EID: 0034533184     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/joca.1999.0315     Document Type: Article

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