Changes of articular cartilage after immobilization in a rat knee contracture model

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 236-242

  Hagiwara, Yoshihiro ^a   Ando, Akira ^a   Chimoto, Eiichi ^a   Saijo, Yoshifumi ^b   Ohmori Matsuda, Kaori ^a   Itoi, Eiji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Degeneration; Immobilization; Mechanical property; Scanning acoustic microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CONTRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERNAL FIXATOR; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; FEMUR; KNEE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIBIA;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CONTRACTURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMUR; IMMOBILIZATION; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIBIA;

EID: 59449098995     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.20724     Document Type: Article

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